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| An appetizer to soothe the Cajun beast in us all. Great for LSU and UL tailgate parties or Saints and high school football games get together. | | This dish is a great budget stretcher. Cajuns love to blend various combinations of foods. Great one-dish such as this one are family favorites and are served at potluck suppers, social and family gatherings where friends can catch up on local gossip. Gossip according to Wikipedia consists of casual or idle talk of any sort, sometimes (but not always) slanderous and/or devoted to discussing others. Not yet rated | | Every Christmas party that we invited Stella to she made this dish; but she also made it just to share. If you knew Stella you knew her signature dish. Stella was French Canadian...I told her she could always be a transplanted Cajun. Not yet rated | |
| | It takes a magnificent tree to produce a great-tasting nut. Pecan trees usually range in height from 70 to 100 feet, but some trees grow as tall as 150 feet or higher. Native pecan trees – those over 150 years old – have trunks more than three feet in diameter. There are over 1,000 varieties of pecans. Many are named for Native American Indian tribes, including Cheyenne, Mohawk, Sioux, Choctaw and Shawnee. Before a shelled pecan is ready to be sold, it must first be cleaned, sized, sterilized, cracked and finally, shelled; Can you imagine a pecan skyscraper? Picture this - it would take 11,624 pecans, stacked end to end, to reach the top of the Empire State Building in New York City. Fun facts from http://www.ilovepecans.org/funfacts.html | | Eat at you own risk...Some peppers are hotter then others but I fine the hotter, the better. These are absolutely delicious. Once you start eating them, you can't get enough. For holiday's I use about 40 peppers and they are gone in minutes. | | A great party dip to serve with crackers or chips. Rice and crawfish are two staple food of the Cajuns. The rice stubble/chaf is the prime source of food for crawfish. The crawfish crop is raised in rotation with rice crop. Crawfish farming began in the 1960s. Before then, crawfish were caught in the wild. With the spread in popularity of Cajun cooking, crawfish farming expanded to become an industry that nets Louisiana between $25 million to $45 million per year. Crawfish season begins in the fall when farmers flood their ponds. Harvesting begins as early as November and continues until summer.
To harvest crawfish, farmers drive in boats across acres and acres of ponds, pulling up strings of wire mesh traps and bringing in an average 635 million crawfish annually.
Source: www.planetark.com
| | Baseball, Hot dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet! Ok everyone, date yourself - Do you remember that commercial in the 70's? Now we hear - LSU! LSU! Go team go! Try this delicious easy appetizer for your next tailgate party. | | There are three types of spinach available in U.S. supermarkets: savoy (curly leaf), flat
(smooth leaf) and semi-savoy (slightly curly leaves). The savoy has dark green crinkly
leaves while the flat variety matches its name. The spade-shaped leaves are flat leaves
and have a milder taste than the savoy. The semi-savoy leaves are slightly curly. Baby spinach comes from the smallest leaves of flat leaf spinach plants. One other type not mentioned is frozen - just great for this quick, easy and delicious dip!!! Great for weddings, family holiday gatherings and parites! | | Fun Facts on eggs from the Department of Agriculture. Eggs age more in one day at room temperature than in one week in the refrigerator. Occasionally, a hen will produce double-yolked eggs throughout her egg-laying career. It is rare, but not unusual, for a young hen to produce an egg with no yolk at all.
It takes 24 to 26 hours for a hen to produce an egg; there is 30 minutes between each egg-producing cycle. About 240 million laying hens produce about 5.5 billion dozen eggs per year in the United States. Egg yolks are one of the few foods that naturally contain Vitamin D. In the U.S. in 1998, hens produced 6,657,000,000 dozen eggs - that’s 6.657 billion dozen! WOW! This recipe will share how to enjoy at least one dozens of those eggs.
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| | Neat appetizer for your dinner parties or family gatherings. Not yet rated |
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