After a long hard weekend in Texas we needed to welcome senior scribe RL Reeves Jr back into the fold of his beloved New Orleans in high fashion.

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Time for a crab boil.

We took a flyer over to the Westwego Shrimp Lot, loaded the Econoline up with four dozen crabs and came back to the Scrumptious House to build a fire under the hot pot in the back courtyard.

Pictured: Louisiana Boiled Crabs turned out onto a butcher paper clad pic nic table.