The general rule for selecting a crawfish pot is 2 quarts of water per every pound of crawfish, i.e., a 30-quart pot can handle a 15 lb. sack of crawfish, a 60-quart pot can handle a 30 lb. sack, etc.

Flowers poking their heads out of the ground; breezy, 70-degree weather; longer days—all harbingers of spring. But Texans mark the changing of the seasons with another tradition: crawfish boils.

Crawfish. Crawdads. Mud bugs. Swamp lobsters. Call them what you will, but get the water boiling and plan a party because the Louisiana staple is about to enter into peak season. Live sacks of the ...

We deep fry them. We stuff them with ducks, chicken and andouille sausage. And sometimes, we boil them up in a spice profile that would be at home in a crawfish pot. Louisianians have left their mark ...

Houston – Stanley and Jamie Alford created their crawfish catering company after evacuating their home in Louisiana in 2016 due to catastrophic floods. The Alfords had to find a way to start over, and ...

All through the spring, a familiar face from the New Orleans restaurant scene has been cooking up crawfish in a less-than-familiar way. Ian Schnoebelen, who co-owned the since-shuttered restaurants ...