Cleaning out a freezer is a dreaded chore around here. I do a pretty good job of keeping up with what’s in them but every now and then, I take everything out, defrost the three big freezers that are not frost free, and clean them all up. With deer season coming up, I wanted to clean them out so I started with the freezer in the house fridge. That’s one of the smallest ones and wouldn’t take forever.
Buried, I found a bag of crawfish tails that we had peeled when we had a crawfish boil here.
Crawfish Etouffee
Those were quickly made into etouffee for lunch. Etouffee is super quick to make and I cooked rice in the pressure cooker. Vince mostly doesn’t like etouffee. He will eat hot, boiled crawfish but after they’ve been frozen, he says they taste fishy. CrawFISH! That means more for me. We had plenty of leftovers in the fridge so I wasn’t feeling sorry for him that I was fixing something he didn’t like. He decided he would try it and proclaimed “This is GOOD! It doesn’ taste fishy at all!” NOT more for me!
That was a pleasant surprise (finding the crawfish — not that Vince decided he liked them).
Linda in NE says
It’s surprising what you find when you start digging in those freezers…especially the chest freezers. I’ve been trying to get some stuff out of ours to make room for apples and hopefully at least one deer. I found two and a half plastic shopping bags of packages of sweet corn from 2015 that were a surprise, thought we’d used it all up. Found a plastic shopping bag full of packages of little deer steaks made from the back strap…surprise! And three gallon bags of frozen apples from last year, thought we’d used all of them too. Never mind the beef roasts that have been in there a while and will have to be canned to be any good at all, and even more fish + a few more packages of frozen chicken. I thought I had found all of it when I dug some out to can last week. Let’s not even think about the two year old blueberries, strawberries and red bell peppers. When you have chest freezers life is just full of surprises! 🙂
thequiltingprofessor says
Hey Judy, would you post your étouffée recipe???? thanks much