Crawfish Etouffee

Fixins

3 pounds of crawfish tails
2 large onions chopped
2 bell peppers chopped
1 bunch celery chopped
1 bunch green onions chopped
2 cans Rotel tomatoes
1 heaping teaspoon minced garlic
2 sticks real butter
1 bunch of fresh Parsley
3 teaspoons dried Basil
Tony Chacheres to taste
1 10 1/2 oz can Golden Mushroom Soup
1 10 1/2 oz can Cream of Shrimp Soup
Your favorite hot sauce to taste

Your Concoction

Melt butter in a pot. Add the onion, bell pepper and celery. Cook until soft over low to medium medium heat. You don't want to burn your butter.
Add the garlic and cook for three more minutes to release the flavor.
Add both cans of soup, the parsley and the Tony's. Heat on simmer for 20 minutes or so.
Add the crawfish and green onion. Cook over medium heat until crawfish are heated through all the while stirring in lots of love. If too thin thicken up with 2 teaspoons cornstarch stirred into a 1/4 cup of water then add in and stir till thick.
Add three or four splashes of the hot sauce and serve over rice with a side of cornbread. ENJOY!!

Skillet Not Kabobs

Fixins

Vegetable oil
1 pound large shrimp
1 pound of pork backbone cut into cubes
1 rope of your favorite smoked sausage sliced (I used green onion and jalapeno)
1 zuchinni quartered
1 squash quartered
1 green bell pepper sliced
1 large yellow onion sliced
6 ears of little nibbler corn on cob quartered
6 ounces of sliced portabella mushrooms
Salt
Black pepper
Red pepper flakes
1 teaspoon of crushed garlic
Dales liquid steak seasoning concentrate

Your Concoction

Season the cubed pork with salt, black pepper and red pepper flakes.
Heat a cast iron skillet on medium heat. Add enough oil to just cover the bottom.
Add your sausage and pork and cook until brown and done. While cooking add about a teaspoon of the Dales seasoning. It is very concentrated so a little goes along ways.
Increase your heat to medium high. Add all the vegetables and garlic to the skillet stirring often until done to your likeness. I like mine a little crispy. Add a little more Dales to the veggies as well.
Lastly add your shrimp and stir until done. About 4 minutes or so. Serve stand alone or over rice.
And remember to stir lots of love into your pot as always! Enjoy!