Boiled Crawfish in December.

OK..first off, I set my alarm for 2:00 am to see the Lunar Eclipse. I forgot to tell Danny !! My cell phone alarm was going off and Danny asked me what that was. I said, from a heavy sleep, it was time to get up for work and he said..it's 2:00 in the morning ??  Then I remembered about the eclipse. LOL. What a trooper he is. He said let go see it. So we got up, got dressed-me in Dannys huge coat- and walked out side the hotel and saw nothing but clouds. We walked around the whole hotel looking to see if we could see it any where but it was not to be. I'm surprised nobody called the cops about 2 strangers walking around the hotel at 2:00 in the morning..like we were trying to find a way into the place.LOL At least we tried. We came back to the room and got back in our PJ's and went back to sleep.

Who knew you could eat boiled crawfish in December ??
We saw that some of the restaurants here in Lafayette were saying they have boiled crawfish so of course we just had to have some. LOL.

We went to the Gator Cove and got 2 different appertizers and 5 lbs. of boiled crawfish. The crawfish was really good but they were very small. I like they way they were boiled. Most of the restaurants that serve boiled crawfish add the seasoning on the outside to make it spicy instead of just letting them soak in the seasoned water. Most of the seasoning that they sprinkle on the outside has a bitter aftertaste. It's spicy but bitter.So they boil the crawfish in water thats not too seasoned and then how you order them, mild-spicy-extra spicy- that's when they sprinkle the seasoning on the outside. If you order extra spicy, they put a lot of the seasoning. So as you are peeling the crawfish, the spice gets on your fingers and thats how you get the spicy taste. I find Gator Cove had sprinkled a little seasoning on the outside but it was not bitter and you could tell that they did let them soak in the seasoned water.

Danny loves stuffed jalapenos so we orded some. I guess he thought they were stuffed with cheese, like they do in Houston, but this was with seafood stuffing.  They looked good when they brought them to the table. Nice and crunchy brown with a dipping sauce.

WELL...when you cut it open..it was nothing but seasoned breading with a piece of jalapeno in the middle. It did not taste good at all. The waitress asked how we liked them and I told her we did not and she said it was her favorite...I guess we just have different taste buds.LOL

The potatoes were a little bit of a different story. They were describe on the menu as fried tater with onion,bacon,jalapenos & cheese. They forgot to put the jalapenos, I think they would have been better with them.They were not that bad but they were not that good either. I think the idea was good but the bacon was not the good, thick bacon that Danny loves. I will do this next time we have some left over taters from a crawfish boil.

We did not get dessert but she brought the tray to show us what they have. They are all home made and some looked really good but some looked funny. especially the GREEN ONE...I asked her what it was and she said some kind of Cheesecake. It looked like somethink you would see on Dr. Seuss...a funnly looking green. They did not have it on the tray but they usuall have a 1/4 of a sliced whole pinapple that they put brown sugar on and then stick it under the broiler till the sugar gets crunchy and brown. They call it the Pinapple Creme Brulee. I never had it yet but we always say we are gonna try it one day. BUT the waitress said it's her favorite one...The same waitress who said the stuffed jalapenos were her favorite too. Now i'm not too sure that I want to try it now. LOL.

Look at that funny colored green cheese cake in the photo. I almost got it just to see how bad it really was.LOL.
Our family always play a GAME when we go to a buffet and they have a lot of weird looking desserts. We get a little bite of ALL of them and then we tasted them and try and find out the worst tasting one out of the group. Mom will take and bite of something and say...Kellie, taste this how bad, and of course I have to taste it just to see. Danny does not like to play that game at all. His said if me & Mom says it taste bad..thats good enough for him.LOL

They also have a stuffed gator at the Gator Cove. It's 13 feet  7 inches. 1,100 lbs and was 75 years old.
As they say on the History Channel new TV show...SWAMP PEOPLE...
That's a tree shaker....LOL
What they mean is...they hang a chicken leg on a hook from a tree limb and wait for the alligator to jump up and eat it and then the gator goes back in the water but can't get too far cause the hook is in its tummy. So when the boat comes up to get the gator, it's scared and mad and starts tugging trying to get away. As the gator does that..the tree limb shakes..the bigger the gator, the more the tree limb shakes.
So a big gator is called a tree shaker...LOL

Well, Danny went to the office here in Lafayette for a few hours and i'm packing up at the hotel. We are going to leave around 10:30 to head to the camp in Dularge,LA for the Christmas holidays. It was too windy to get too much fishing done when we were the over Thanksgiving so I'm hoping the fishing will be better this trip. We have a lot of little cold fronts coming thru right now and that brings wind, which makes the water muddy and the fish get lock jaw and do not want to bite. At least we get to get away for a few days.