Tales of Javier the Crayfish

Yesterday, I went to my very first crayfish boil!  Great timing before the oil slick hit the beaches.

I had to premedicate because I'm allergic to shellfish, and there was no way I was going to miss out on this.  Come on, tons of crayfish, other food and beer! How could a college student in the South say "no"?!
I armed myself with benedryll and sunscreen and made it to the boil.  It was fantastic!!!  I finally learned how to properly eat a crawdad like a Louisiana Native!

1.  Hold the crawdad with both hands at the base of its tail and head.
2.  Twist the sucker gently to seperate it.
3.  Suck out the yummines in the head (mostly spices, and no, you will not get any brains in your mouth)
5.  Gently peel the tail armor and slide out the meat.
6.  EAT!!!!!

The guys boiling the crayfish boiled potatoes, mushrooms, corn and garlic, along with some spices they wouldn't let me get a hold of.  Needless to say, it was delicious and I only flared u once!!  The day progressed as we listened to a mix of old rock and roll, booty, crunk beats and the like.  It's great to have the beatles playing, then switch it up to Jeezy!

Every year, the guys also choose to save one crayfish.  This year, his name was Javier, and I had the honor of keeping him alive!  That is, until he died last night at approx. 12:30AM.  He was dubbed, the most interesting Crayfish in the world.  Unlike his brethren, he spent the day by the pool with some very attractive college girls and hanging out with some wild and crazy college guys.  He made the other crawdads very jealous, I'm sure.

Unfortunately, toward the end, it started pouring! It was torrential!  That didn't slow down the party at all.  People in the pool didn't get out and people eating crawdads never stopped! It's like the rain was never there.

Tonight's Menu: Caprice Salad, My famous Lasagna, and some kind of dessert.

Albert really wants to have a dinner party, so I figured that my lasagna would be a slam dunk.  (Go Celtics!)  I plan on dressing that up with spinach and sausage.  In addition to that, I will be serving caprice salad, since that's fun, easy and tasty, and I hope to be making some sort of dessert, I'm just not sure what.

Here's what I can think of in 5 seconds:

Strawberry Shortcake
Lemon Bars
some sort of pie

and that's about it.

I've been scouring allrecipes.com and foodnetwork.com to maybe find something new.  Any suggestions would be FANTASTIC!  


Thanks,
FAB

Coming Eventually: A Magazine!!

I love food, and I like writing about food.  These are two true statements, and because of those, my friend and I will be attempting our very own Magazine.  We are both Editing Writing and Media majors, so hopefully we've learned some useful information.  Now our mag is in it's infancy-no, even before that... so pregnancy? Either way, we need all the help we can get.  Just remember, we are two broke college students who would appreciate any tips or help.  We do have experience writing, but this is our baby, and we'd like to see it grow. (Cheesy, I know)

We will be holding our first meeting today at my apartment in Killearn, where I will be serving my version of Chili Shepherd's Pie.  I'll post pictures later after it's done, since it's in the slow cooker now, and needs a few more hours until it's done.  

Our first meeting's agenda will probably go over possible names for the magazine, local restaurants we could hit up cheap, and maybe a layout.

I'll let you know how this goes!!!