No, this isn’t Argentine tailgating for a soccer game or what Portenos do on a given Sunday – it’s what do you do when you miss spicy food from Louisiana – and where do you do it? The parking lot of course, over an open wood/charcoal fire. Duh.
Joey wanted to show his Argentine and French neighbors a little slice of home and test their tolerance of hot spices. So he had one of his fishing clients bring down boxes of cajun crab boil spices.
Here are the ingredients – shrimp, crab, smoked sausage, corn, potatoes, onions, lots of lemons, crab boil mix, and a giant pot of water.
After throwing all the ingredients in with the shrimp going in last, the food is ready to go:
And what did the neighbors think? They thought it was good and not too spicy. For our tastes, not spicy at all. If we were to have done it right, there would be a lot more cayenne and spices in there – you should be sweating!
Finally, the funny thing was, after we had eaten two pots of the shrimp boil, the neighbors went upstairs to get more meat because they were STILL hungry. Argentines can eat! Surf and turf!
Here’s the full set of photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tony-chen/sets/72157624408371288/show/