Recipe - Crawfish On The Rocks

One fourth cup Peanut oil
One fourth pound Butter
2 cup Onions, finely chopped
Three fourths cup Celery, finely chopped
One half cup Bell pepper, finely chopped
One half cup Fresh parsley, chopped
4 Garlic cloves, finely minced
One fourth cup Green onions, finely cut or sliced up
3 cup Evaporated milk
One half cup Madeira wine
1 cup Campbell's chicken broth
1 pound Cream cheese, chunked
3 pound Crawfish tails and fat
1 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Black pepper
One half teaspoon Granulated garlic
One half teaspoon Cayenne pepper
2 cn Crescent dinner rolls

First, put the peanut oil and the butter in a heavy 12inch skillet and
melt it down over medium heat until it just begins to foam. Then stir in
the onions, celery, bell pepper, parsley, garlic, and green onions and cook
them for about 12 to 15 minutes until they soften completely. While the
chopped vegetables are simmering, preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

When the vegetables are ready, pour in the evaporated milk, Madeira wine,
and chicken broth, mix them together thoroughly, and bring the mixture to a
slow boil. Then drop in the cream cheese chunks and, with the heat still
set at medium, stir until the cheese melts and the sauce turns smooth and
silky. For the most part, this should take you about 5 minutes.

At this point, fold the crawfish tails into the hot sauce in the skillet,
stir everything together thoroughly, and cook the mixture for 3 minutes.
When uniformly blended, sprinkle on and stir in the salt, black pepper,
granulated garlic, and cayenne. Then take the pan off the fire and allow
the mixture to cool slightly.

Actually, if you want to develop the maximum flavor in the seafood mix, I
recommend that you make the dish one day, cover it and place it in the
refrigerator overnight, and reheat it the next day just before you serve
it. Just be careful not to recook you don't want the crawfish tails to
turn into rubber bands! Truthfully, though, this is so good that'll
probably never happen.

Then 14 minutes before you're ready to eat, unroll the dinner rolls into
triangles. And with a chef's knife, cut out One half inch squares. Then bake the
squares for about 12 to 14 minutes in the oven. These are your "rocks" and
you want them to puff and turn a rich, toastybrown color.

When you're ready to eat, drop the "rocks" into a soupbowl, generously
ladle the crawfish over the top, and serve piping hot alongside a cold
salad made with cut or sliced up tomatoes, advocado chunks, chopped onions, artichoke
hearts, hearts of palm, and a dressing made from the artichoke marinade.

This dish can be served family style as an everday meal or as the entree
for the most elegant, sophisticated dinner party.

Chef's Note: 1If you want to make the mixture kinda spicy, instead of
using just the cream cheese and the cayenne, you can drop in a couple of
tablespoons of jalapeno peppers. 2If you want to enhance the overall
seafood flavor in the crawfish, instead of using salt, black pepper,
cayenne, and granulated garlic, substitute 2 teaspoons of my Frank Davis
Seafood Seasoning. If it is not available where you shop, you can order it
by direct mail by calling 18007424231. 3If the end product thickens too
much to spoon over the puff pastry, simply add a little more chicken stock
and Madeira wine mixed half and half. Ideally, you want it the consistency
of a medium stew! 4Finally, experiment with different mixtures. In
addition to crawfish tails, make the basic sauce and substitute shrimp,
crabmeat, broiled oysters, Italian sausage and mozzarella, smoked turkey,
chopped chicken or ham and bacon. The variations you can come up with are
endless.

From: Frank Davis Cooks Cajun, Creole, and Crescent City By: Frank Davis
ISBN: 1565540557
Posted to MMRecipes Digest V4 #245 by "Billy Reeves" breeves@eatel.net
on Sep 15, 1997