Decatur Low Country Boil on October 22nd
Decatur Metro | October 13, 2009
On Thursday, October 22nd at 6:30p, Decatur will again host it’s “Low Country Boil” at the Solarium in Oakhurst!
For a $50 donation, you’ll be let loose on food and drink prepared by “Executive Chefs Michael Condon of Badda Bing and Ray Allen of New Orleans along with local celebrity chefs” and be serenaded with live music by the Dammages. You’ll also get yourself a snazzy low country boil t-shirt (which I hope would be covered in crawfish parts and beer by the end of the night).
As always, all proceeds from the event go to the Decatur Education Fund.
If you already know all about this event and just wanna buy your tickets, CLICK HERE.
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I believe crawfish season is in the late spring/earlysummer. And “low country boil” is a dish made with shrimp
I bet that is a shrimp in the picture.
If that’s true, I’m truly embarrassed. That’s what I get for trying to give the post a little color.
I’m such a Yankee.
I didn’t know you were a YANKEE. Must rethink my entire concept of the universe.
Perhaps we need to start asking posters to self-identify as Yankees, such as “well I’m just a Yankee, but I think bike lanes should blah blah”. Or maybe all their text should show up in blue (referring, of course, to the old blue & gray divide, not the current blue state/red state divide).
Might be an interesting Friday topic: where do all these blog folks come from?
Excellent idea, Robbie!
Robbie,
Good idea. Maybe we can take it a little further, and have each person add their personal information with each post. Something like, “this post written by a white, male, married, heterosexual, Republican, lapsed Episcopalian southerner with two children in CSD schools.”
That way, people like nelliebelle will be able to find all kinds of ways (beyond being a yankee) to hate on those different from him/her.
yep, crawfish aren’t in season right now so this “low country boil” must be just shrimp, along with potatoes, garlic, corn, etc.
So this is shrimp? Geez…now i have to change my semi-clever title.
Maybe they got the crawfish at Medlock.
Yep, that’s a shrimp. I ought to know – I’m from Louisiana and thoroughly enjoy crawfish. And folks are correct – crawfish season is in the spring, although there’s this roadhouse place in Bossier City that has them at Christmas when I go to Shreveport to visit my family. We always make the drive.
I also know because I was the original celebrity chef (though I don’t consider myself much of a celebrity!). I used to go to the DeKalb Farmers Market and buy 50 plus pounds of fresh Georgia shrimp that they’d just gotten in from the coast along with a couple of crates of corn, potatoes, french bread, and lots of spicy, Louisiana Andouille sausage (a must). I used to add a lot of Cajun spices to the boil, but got complaints about it being too spicy – folks around here don’t go for the spice like Cajuns do. My biggest worry was getting fresh shrimp as I had to wait for the delivery truck to come in. Don’t care much for the frozen, farm raised stuff they usually have.
Although I really enjoyed being the head cook, the crowd got too big for me to handle so I begged off last year when the Boil moved to the Solarium. I have the set-up to do 150 people at one time, but the crowd has gotten a bit too big for that. They still use my pots and burners though.
I’ll be there this year – it’s great fun, good food (you eat it all with your hands- use fresh lemons to get the smell off afterwards) and a worthy cause. Come join us!
Thanks Fred. You can tell all the folks who go expecting crawfish that it’s all my fault.
Fred: What is the name of the roadhouse place in Bossier City that has crawfish during the holidays??? We drive through that area for family holiday gatherings too and would love to get an early crawfish fix!
DM: No need to be embarrassed. You bring us such great, timely information all the time. Thanks for keeping my family and me informed! We love the work you do!
Yes! Shrimp in the boil and jambalaya too by fabulous chefs Michael Condon and Ray Allen of Badda Bing. We will also have a “Gourmet & Getaway” silent auction featuring great Decatur restaurants and 8 vacation homes covering territory from North GA to Seagrove Beach to Costa Rica. Come on out – its a great party and tickets need to be purchased by 10/18/09. http://www.decaturlowcountryboil.com.
It’s called Crawfish Palace and is a real hole-in-wall. It’s mainly built of raw plywood. The bathrooms are outside and they have a big long industrial sink along one wall to wash up afterwards. Crawfish is about the only thing they sell. It’s on Highway 80 just east of Bossier City. They are usually able to get up some crawfish for Christmas time – I think they’re farm raised and are smallish (as you’d expect for the time of year). But – hey – it’s a Christmas treat for us.
Phone number is: 318-949-3799