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Good Friday Tradition; This is how we do it!
Topic Started: Mar 12 2005, 08:17 AM (117 Views)
cajun cook
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First of all we all take off work on Good Friday and the company shuts down for the day cause we did that.
Next we call the neighbor and get 100 or so pounds of live crawfish, and clean and shop for the fixins, then about noon we light the fire, drink some beer, and start the boil, and drink some more beer. The women are playing cards and fixin the side dishes for the meal. When the water is ready in goes the potatoes, sausage, mushrooms,corn, and first batch of crawfish, one sack of 35 or so pounds. Repeat Repeat.When all the crawfish are done they go in a huge icechest till we finish the beer. Then we eat all afternoon and If theres any leftover we peel the tails so we can make a A two Fay later.

Then Sat, is when we plant the garden, cause you know you are not supposed to dig in the ground on good friday.
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Danny,
Sounds like you have some wonderful times with your family and I envy that. Traditions are great it makes us what we are. I'm from a relatively small family but I try to make holidays extra special and I can now see my children doing some of the same things.
Chrissy

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Don't eat the dead ones, lol. Sounds like a great day.
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Outback Annie
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Easter is always a fun time for the greeks. It's starts a bit solemn with some people going on 40 day fasts eating only certain types of foods but then after the main church servicew on Easter Sunday it's party time.

I remember as a kid we used to go to church at midnight on Saturday night then go to a relatives house where all our Big Fat Greek Family would get together for a huge feast and we would tap these red dyed hard boiled eggs together.

A bit like 2 people pulling a wishbone but cracking red boiled eggs together instead. :) Usually only one of the eggs would crack. If I remember rightly some sort of bet would be made like the loser has to be the winners slave for a day or something like that so the holder of the egg which didn't break was the winner.

Boy we sure did eat a lot of red boiled eggs then. :P
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cajun cook
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Out back Annie, Thats what pocking is! After all the eggs are dyed we all get together and you pick your best egg hold it tight and two people tap together (pock) the pointy end of the eggs. The winner gets the egg and moves on to the next challenger. At the end of the day whoever has the champion egg gets whatever prize that everone pitched in for. crockpot,weedeater,radio,tools, etc. Now, we have thought of every way possible to cheat at this from using guinea eggs to painting a wooden egg in easter colors.
My point is, if anybody knows of some other way I can win, please let me know cause this year its a trolling motor. LOL Danny
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I always make up a batch of big Hot Cross buns for Good Friday or Saturday morning. Nothing like the smell of them coming out of the oven!

Danny, I love your big parties and I've never even been to one! (yet)

I thought of a way you can win! You have to get some real hard-shell eggs. I always find the brown eggs to have thicker and harder shells than the white ones. But I believe they are hard to find in the South.
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cajun cook
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No miss Heather we got pleanty we call country eggs and all the neighbors raise chickens and sell the eggs for $1.00 a dozen. I have done country eggs and even coated the ends with nail polish, and even boiled some in strong coffee grounds to make them tougher. I told you we all cheat and want the prizes.LOL Danny
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Well, gee, Danny....just spray the eggs with red enamel; about ten coats should do it! Rustoleum is good...

so... if you get busted, do you have to give up the prize?
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cajun cook
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I never win cause my brother in laws (7) of them, manage to steal my egg or "accidently" drop and break my good egg. I think they are wise to my ways. LOL Danny
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Colleen - Cold Lake Alberta
What wonderful traditions. Big smile going on at the end of these fingers.

thanks for the stories Cajun, Annie, Heather. :P
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Outback Annie
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Cajun...it's not called pocking in greek but same thing. I cna't remeber what the greek word is for it.

I believe you can get very real looking plastic eggs these days. You know...the kind farmers put under chooks (chickens) to make them lay eggs. If you get some paint that will work over plastic there's your winning egg.....you cheat :slap:

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cajun cook
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Thanks Annie, whatever I can do to win I will try. Really need the trolling motor cause I am tired of using the paddle.LOL Danny
All of my brother in laws gang up on me (I am the oldest) (48) and they think I should set the ways when it comes to things involving the family deals. They are scared of the inlaws. Me, I feel that if the inlaws give me any trouble, I will give them back their daughter. LOL that will teach them. LOL Danny
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Danny. Do you mean to say, you have seven sisters?? :eek:

Do they all know how to cook, too?
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cajun cook
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No Miss Heather, I have five sister in laws, (wifes sisters)(5 guys there) and two of my own sisters, (two bro in laws) I left out the inlaws and my folks and children and grandchildren, but when we get together and we all live within 40 miles of Eunice. We make a huge deal of it, almost every weekend that we can. Thats the way cajuns stay down here or if they do move away, as soon as they can (ask them) they move back here. What happens is that everyone brings something or if they dont they pitch in money for the extras, paper products, etc. and we have a feast every single weekend. I mean we even have the brother in laws folks join in with us. Now we have been knowing them all our lives, and we are all friends. JUST ONE BIG HAPPY GROUP DOWN HERE. Danny
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