This recipe is one of my favorite recipes to cook with my husband. it's a delicious dish full of flavor using louisiana crawfish and soft shell crabs. our family and friends request this recipe at all our family functions during crawfish season. you could make this recipe without the soft shell crabs if you wanted. the recipe feeds four people without the soft shell crabs and two people with the crabs unless you double the recipe. after soaking your soft shell crabs then we move on to the less creepy part of the recipe. i always make my husband do that.