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Just reported by WVUE in N.O. Huval said porch roof came off and damaged the dance hall. Hopefully the restaurant won't be affected too much. I love their Crawfish Bisque (although I haven't had it in a while)....
[quote]add some lemon pepper and crab boil[/quote]Powder boil or liquid?...
[img]https://img.atlasobscura.com/YufGSMWeEHc0oieXKI8qcYnAYyr-Baf28iigENXWVB8/rt:fill/w:1200/el:1/q:81/sm:1/scp:1/ar:1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh/cy1kZXYuczMuYW1h/em9uYXdzLmNvbS91/cGxvYWRzL2Fzc2V0/cy84ZjhiMWQxNTY3/ZjlkZWY3N2FfSkMg/aW4gIDM5MCBEaW5p/bmcgcm9vbSAxOTcz/LmpwZw.jpg[/img] [quote]Born in Beijing in...

Is There Lithium in Your Crawfish?

Posted by Stadium Rat on 5/14/24 at 8:37 am
[img]https://www.thecooldown.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-128.jpg?w=1920&h=800[/img] [quote]In a lab at Mississippi College, biology professor Joseph Kazery and his students are studying how different organs in crawfish absorb lithium. "As aquatic organisms, crawfish can take up large...
[quote]I cook the eggs a little first, then add the S&P before they are finished. I think it is an Alton Brown thing with the timing and how salt can change how the eggs cook or something.[/quote]One of us is remembering the Alton Brown comment wrong. On the show about omelets, he added salt before ...

re: What is the Popeyes secret spice?

Posted by Stadium Rat on 5/13/24 at 10:31 am
[quote]Al’s brother owned a bunch of Tastee donut shops.[/quote]That's why you used to see Popeyes built right next to Tastees on the same lot....

re: Red beans question

Posted by Stadium Rat on 5/12/24 at 10:35 pm
[quote]Blue runner + trinity + good smoked sausage is very hard to beat. Not sure why anyone would make em from scratch with that option.[/quote]You have to be joking. BR is so bland, the only thing I would use that for is it I made red beans and they were too salty or I needed to stretch a batch....

re: What is the Popeyes secret spice?

Posted by Stadium Rat on 5/12/24 at 10:30 pm
[quote]I can definitely see Worcester being a key, but I guess you just add it to the mix and it is absorbed?[/quote]There is such a thing as Worcestershire sauce powder....
I've had trouble finding our games a couple of times on my Roku TV. Today is one of those times. Easy to find on my computer, though....

re: What is the Popeyes secret spice?

Posted by Stadium Rat on 5/11/24 at 10:33 pm
[quote]She informed me that the original recipe does not contain all of the spices that KFC claims it has. I had a hard time believing this but she showed me the results when an employee took a sample of the original flour recipe to a lab to see what the flour contained. I couldn't believe the resul...

re: What is the Popeyes secret spice?

Posted by Stadium Rat on 5/11/24 at 10:30 am
I saw a segment they did on the old show "Unwrapped" about Popeyes. I haven't been able to find the clip anywhere, though. I can't tell you much about the spice blend, but they tumbled the chicken with the rub for 5 minutes in an industrial tumbler drum. They did about 25 lbs at a time from my es...

re: What is the Popeyes secret spice?

Posted by Stadium Rat on 5/10/24 at 10:42 pm
[quote]some good results (one is very)[/quote]You want us to give up the secrets that we have obtained through grueling testing and spical knowledge, but you don't give us what you stumbled upon yourself?...
Prepare a crawfish boil as usual. When you add all the veggies, etc, throw in 1 cicada discarded exoskeleton. When all is done pull the shell and eat. Do what you want with all the other stuff....

re: Live Crabs in Slidell

Posted by Stadium Rat on 5/8/24 at 10:19 pm
How mahy do you need? Gonna be a challenge to get them on Sunday morning. If you don't mind a detour to Westwego, the Westwego Shrimp Lot is open 8 am - 6. Pretty sure they'd have crabs....
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re: A Different Take on Cracklins

Posted by Stadium Rat on 5/6/24 at 1:06 pm
[quote]Waaaaaait! This is THE Stadium Rat who invented the jambalaya calculator who is asking the difference between cracklins and pork rinds? I'm starting to possibly understand why the play store removed the jambalaya app. :)[/quote]You know, I never claimed to be Cajun. Closest I can claim is tha...
This showed up in my FB feed - apparentty they added a new competition this year: [img]https://i.imgur.com/8XwZ1Ta.png[/img] (Isn't AI amazing?)...