Yesterday we went to a real mudbug boil, given by our friends the Baileys. They have an awesome house in Ladera Ranch with a huge front driveway, perfect for setting up 6 six foot tables end to end and spreading the hot crawfish right down the middle straight from the boiling pot! Don and Jennifer have been throwing an annual MudBug Boil for the past 11 years, rain or shine! The crawfish were flown in from Louisiana packed on ice and still alive, mind you he ordered 400 lbs, if you can imagine. Then they are cleaned and prepped for the boiler with some corn on the cob, potatoes, spicy sausage and of course the secret louisiana rub for ultimate tastiness. Don throws them in the boiling pot for about 5 min and they're done! I have to be honest I was a bit freaked out to eat the first one, but really they taste like shrimp or a small piece of lobster SO YUMMY! The trick is learning how to get the meat out of the tail, it's alot of work for one lil morsel of meat. It's really about the fun of it, standing side by side with a bunch of strangers, cracking open crawfish, getting all messy trying to be the quickest. One extra perk for packing Shay around was everyone cracked the buggers for me so I didn't have to do any work ahhahahaha! We had a blast and can't wait for next years Boil!
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