We traveled back to Mississippi this year for the annual Crawfish Boil hosted by my wonderful Aunt & Uncle. There are usually around 40 people who spend the entire weekend at their house, cooking, dancing, and enjoying one anothers company. This year was no exception. Thinking back each memory of the weekend seems to somehow involve food. We ate SO much food. Gumbo, smoked pork, fresh conch salad, and of course crawfish... 350 lbs of crawfish. Yes, crazy, I know. I guess this is what happens when you have a huge group of people who all love to cook, no one can stay out of the kitchen!
Luckily I came home with lots of food to freeze for later :) We drove this year, thus we were able to bring home more... Dwyatt has since recommended we drive every year! Ok, here are some pics to recap the weekend:
The best thing about having our Bahamian friends visit us in Mississippi? They bring fresh conch! For those of you who don't know, conch shells are the big shells you hold up to your ear and "listen to the ocean" in... Conch salad is kind of like ceviche, so yummy!!!
And a little spicy... gotta love habaneros!
slicing and dicing!
This little guy was my favorite crawfish... he loved to pose :) As a thank you for his cooperation, he was set free in the woods of Mississippi.
Cousin Yann prepping our massive amounts of crawfish...
Me and my hubby :)
Another family favorite: sagnuts (aka: ladder golf) competitions!
The Mississippi clan is the musical side of our family. The house is always filled with these amazing and unique instruments, such as the drums. They make for a pretty darn good dance party!
Cousin Ky serenading us in the kitchen.
Group photo! We had such a great weekend... so thankful for wonderful family and friends :)
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