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while basking in the glow of the newly
crowned Crawfish Queen.
The start of crawfish season alsomeans
that fresh crawdaddies will be creeping
onto menus throughout the Big Easy. At
the elegant FrenchQuarter seafood house
GW Fins, chef Tenney Flynn incorporates
them in such decadent recipes as his ver-
sion of crawfish pie: a spicy étouffée ladled
into the sameflaky, homemade shortbread
crust that holds his hedonistic bourbon-
pecan pie. There’s also his crawfish bisque,
a labor-intensive soupmadewithapeanut-
colored roux and crawfish stock, which is
poured over savory rice pudding and
toppedwith a spectacular piece of sautéed
red snapper. To make the bisque, Flynn
toasts flour-dusted crawfish heads in the
oven and adds them to the pot. (“The flour
expands in the liquid and thickens the
soup,” he says.) For the final touch, he fills
the heads with a riff on the typical bread-
based stuffing: amousselineof lobster, eggs
and cream. The result is a delicacy fit for a
celebration. —R.O.
ONE FISH, ROUX FISH
Sautéed red snapper with
crawfish bisque at GW Fins
another of the brewery’s celebrated
fruit beers: Satsuma Harvest Wit,
a Belgian-style white that gets its
subtle citrus flavor from the small,
sweet mandarin-type oranges grown
in Plaquemines Parish at the state’s
southernmost point. The satsuma’s
peel and pulp are used in the mash,
which adds a dose of sugar to balance
the beer’s clove-and-coriander
profile. Both brews pair well with Loui-
siana’s shrimp and crawfish dishes,
and during the summer months, its
sweltering temperatures. —R.O.
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