Mes amis, we near the end of our adventure! We are five days away from finishing the month of Fructidor and after that we will have six complimentary days to finish our French Republican Calendar experiment. Though I have taken some significant breaks and not adhered strictly to pairing the French Republican Calendar to the Gregorian calendar, I find a sense of accomplishment nonetheless.

Today, we celebrate the crawfish! While visiting the Gulf Coast in Texas, we bought a 31 pound bag of live crawfish and had ourselves a boil. Scale the recipe below to the amount of people at your boil.

Crawfish Boil 

live crawfish (2-3 lbs of live crawfish per adult), well washed

Zatarains

corn on the cob

new potatoes

onion

sausage

lemons

1 huge pot

First, bring a very large pot of water to a boil. Once boiling, add the Zatarains, salt, pepper, cayenne (if desired), lemons, potatoes, onion and sausage. Cook until the potatoes are almost done (about 10 minutes), then add the corn. Cook for a minute or two more and remove the vegetables and sausage and reserve. With the water still boiling, add the crawfish and cook for 8 minutes, or until the shells turn bright red. Remove and serve with the vegetables and sausage. Enjoy!