Stories of me: Memorial Day Crawfish Boil

Over Memorial Day Weekend, we partied like freshmen in college. It was awesome... and exhausting. We spent the weekend hanging out with friends and family. Because I had to work Monday night, my family decided to celebrate on Sunday with a crawfish boil. I did this a few weeks ago with some friends from work. It is actually really easy to do! The hardest part is getting all of the equipment and supplies together, but after that, you are set! There are about a million recipes, theories, and ways to do it. You should probably ignore all of them and do what looks easiest. It will all turn out fine. Trust me, this is a hard thing to mess up! We served 8 people. Here is what we did:

Ingredients

3-5 pounds crawfish/person. Suppliers usually use 35 lb. bags. We used one.
1 box salt
1 bag crawfish seasoning
6 oranges
6 lemons
6 onions, peeled and cut in half
6 large cloves of garlic with the top of the head cut off
1 medium bag new (red) potatoes, whole
8 ears corn, shucked and cut in half
30 mushrooms, whole
2 lbs smoked sausage

1. You'll need to rinse the crawfish of their nasty dirt. Some say to then pour salt on top and rinse, some say not. Just do whatever.

2. Fill up your cooker 1/2 way with water, bring to a boil, add seasoning.

3. You'll cook everything but the crawfish next. Place the strainer in the pot. Add the lemons and oranges (squeeze the juice out first), onions, and garlic. Wait until it returns to a boil and add the potatoes. They will take about 25ish minutes to cook. When you are half way there, add the corn, in another 5 minutes, add the mushrooms and sausage. You can fish one of each of them out and make sure they are done.

4. Take them out and put them in a bowl, cover with foil or place in the oven to keep warm.

5. Place the cleaned crawfish in the strainer and add to the water! I think they take about 8 minutes to cook. I was too busy cooling off inside.

6. Our friends brought this crawfish table from crawfishtables.net to use. It is so neat! You place the table over a round trash can. It has spots for paper towels, drinks, condiments, and (duh) crawfish.