Crawfish Cornbread Dressing - The Local Palate

Ingredients

• Crawfish Cornbread Dressing
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
• 1 onion, diced
• 1 red bell pepper, diced
• 1 celery rib, diced
• 5 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 pound cooked crawfish tail meat
• 1½ teaspoons kosher salt
• ¼ teaspoon black pepper
• ¼ teaspoon cayenne
• 2 cups crawfish stock (recipe follows) or any seafood stock
• 5 cups (about a half a skillet) crumbled Isaac's Cornbread
• Crawfish Stock
• 10 pounds boiled crawfish, chilled
• 1 cup brandy
• 1 onion, peeled and quartered
• 2 celery ribs, roughly chopped
• 1 carrot, peeled and roughly chopped
• 10 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
• 5 bay leaves