Well, I was able to score 12 pounds of live crawfish on a Sunday afternoon with no trouble at all. The whole process was a blast, and the food was terrific. It was not as spicy as I would have liked, but by the time I realized that fact, it was not worth the time to make them spicier.

I started the process at 4:00 PM, and was eating around 7:30 PM. I ended up eating all the corn, mushrooms, and potatoes I put in, and threw away a couple of chunks of sausage. They tasted OK, but I am not a huge fan of that particular style of sausage (the kind that's pre-cooked and made of beef, pork, and chicken, like Eckridge). Also, we ate every single crawfish. I kind of estimated, and I think my special lady friend ended up eating maybe 4 pounds, which means I ate the other 8 pounds. It sounds like a lot, but it really isn't, whereas you throw most of the weight away in the shells.

Short of breaking one half full beer, everything went off without a hitch. I was holding something with one hand, and trying to grab my camera with the other, and the camera strap dragged across the bottle and raked it off onto the concrete. A shop-vac and a few minutes later, and everything was back on track.

I did not detail the steps to the cooking process, but I can do so if I have enough people ask about it.

I put up the pictures over at http://www.snotpocket.com/crawfish.htm.