What is your favorite item to add to your crawfish boil?
 

Over the years we have had fun adding items to a pot, to see if they were a great addition or not. The list has grown considerably, and is great to use when boiling 3 or more sacks, and feeding 40 or more people.

Helps to make the crawfish go further, and adds an unusal variety to the "Normal" type boil.

This year we are doing a sack at a time for 10 or so people. So we have scaled way back on the additional items. It got to the point that we had too many vegtables left over by adding everything that is on my list.

So we sat around the table the night before the first boil, and each attendee decided on their favorite item, and then only added a few items.

My personal favorite is Conecuh sausage, and add both the "Fat and Skinny". They make it with two different size casings.

So now on our weekend boil, we add only these items:

Whole Onions, Whole Garlic, small-bite-size red potatoes, brussel sprouts, mushrooms, lemon, and a can of sliced pinapple. The pinapple, like the lemon is for flavor. Adds a noticable sweetness to the pot.

What is your favorite item?

mushrooms and baby carotts

x2 that is some good sausage

i like to add asparagus season with lemon juice a little butter and crab boil wrap in foil and cook for 5-8 minutes

Artichoke...yummy

Cajun power sauce, lemon juice, garlic, corn, mushrooms and some good crab season.

We just do corn, red potatoes and onions. Now after the boil i have done a head of cabbage talk about good. Also i've put in 2 whole chickens and boil them in the crab boil, deboned and made chicken salad talk about good.

Corn, onions, red potatoes, smoked sausage and fresh sausage. I still wanna try some ribs, heard you can't beat 'em!

If I had to choose only one item it would be mushrooms. Them things can soak up some flavor.

Not my favorite, but cauliflower soaks real good too. I'm a mushroom fan myself.

My favorite to add to a crawfish boil is.......... crawfish!!!!

I like adding sausage, garlic, mushrooms, corn... all that stuff. putting a chicken in there for chicken salad sandwiches sounds awesome!

Gotta try that, sounds good

I like to add cauliflower, it soaks up spice very well. Doesnt take long, I add it after a few mins of boiling.

it is the best chicken salad you gonna eat. I'll put mine up aginst cormier's groc any day.

the left over cabbage i put some deer sausauge in it in a black iron pot and liked to caught a stroke eating it

2 words: TURKEY NECK!! but be careful cause them things can soak up some spices and can get out of hand real quick. We boil them for about 30 minutes r so. After that I would say mushrooms and baby carrots. Also the kid love them hot dog wieners.

One other thing I like to add is about 2 dozen big fat male crabs and 10 pounds of 16-20 Fresh Brown Louisiana Shrimp

Crystal hot sauce

garlic and shrooms

Not my favorite item but the most unique is probably cans of corn. Punch a small whole in each end, toss it in, then drain and serve in a bowl with some butter - good stuff!!!

X2

I like to throw in coliflower. Sometimes the guests look at me funny when I am about to put it in but after they taste it everyone is all smiles.

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I take that boiled garlic spread it on a cracker and eat it up with some dip and a couple tails on it .....watch out toilet here I come. Thats the best laxative you can get.

At one of Nanner Toms boil he threw in a couple of Boston Butts an boiled em til the Bone just popped out on it's own...talk about a fine butt

Garlic garlic garlic mushrooms mushrooms

small potatoes, mushrooms, corn, onions cut in half wrapped in foil, and smoked cocktail weenies. those little weenies are the best.

Beer

Love mushrooms.

Did some ducks one time and you talk about good!!! Meat just fell off the bone. Soaks up the spice real good.

I have to say mushrooms are my all time favorite but tried something new the other day along with the mushrooms,corn, potatoes, and onions
Asparagus is the shiz boiled with all ya goodies!! I didn't think it was gonna turn out as good as it did but pewww that was fine!

Interesting to me how I've been eating crawfish all my life, and to this day I'll still go to a boil where someone has thrown something in that I've never tried before...and it's always good.

I like the basics in my own pot...corn, new potatoes, sausage and chicken.

But basically, I've never tried anything that was thrown in that wasn't good

Laissez le bon temps rouler
 

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Gotta have the shrooms!!!!

I can see it at work where I always get the red x's

I also put cans of French style green Beans !

Without a doubt I like mushrooms the best. Second would be onions cut in half wrapped in aluminum foil - the heart of the onion is hard to beat. Third would be French style green beans. Fourth small red potatoes - fresh from garden is the best. Most of the time 10 lbs of potatoes and corn get thrown away....... You can only eat so much left overs. I have never seen a mushroom get thrown away!!!!

Add people and beer! Never go wrong!

What i like to do is if there are any leftovers, take all of the veggies (corn, potato, onion, mushroom, cut it up finely , along with some leftover tails and make a crawfish soup / chowder......Now this is OFF THE CHARTS!

Take them extra potatoes and make some potato salad with corn and crawfish tails in it