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| My Mamon, Lou Guidry, made this delicious rice dressing every year. I always begged to bring some home. I've modified it with Basmati Rice. Kids love this recipe. | | A delicious cream sauce of crawfish, crabmeat, or shrimp topping for virtually any type fish.
Fun Facts About Fish - If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Fish don't have ears. They hear or feel vibrations along the lateral line of their bodies. Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don't have eyes.
A jellyfish is 95% water. One type of jellyfish has tentacles that can grow up to 100 feet long.
The squid and the octopus each have 2 gills, 2 kidneys, and 3 hearts. Isn't the sea slug clever! It really has no defenses of its own, so it borrows weapons from other creatures. For example, it actually manages to swallow the jellyfish's sting cells, which then find their way to the sea slug's skin. Once there the slug uses them as if they were its own. (Compliments of AlphaArs) Seals seldom sleep. In fact they have been known to swim continuously for eight months and travel 10,000 kilometers. (Submitted by Bubba) Some sharks have a bad attitude even before they're born. While examining a pregnant sand tiger shark, scientist Stewart Springer was bitten by its embryo. (Submitted by SandyD)
During a lifetime a tiger shark will produce, use and then shed some 24,000 teeth.(
Submitted by DkSdBubba on http://www.butlerwebs.com/animals/fish.htm)
Not yet rated | | Although apples trees are not very common in Cajun country; apple remains a very popular fruit for both eating and cooking. Here are fun facts from www.funfacts.com - If you grew 100 apple trees from the seeds of one tree, they would all be different. Apples are fat, sodium, and cholesterol free. Apples are a member of the rose family. 25 percent of an apple's volume is air. That is why they float. The largest apple picked weighed three pounds. China is the leading producer of apples with over 1.2 billion bushels grown in 2001. It takes about 36 apples to create one gallon of apple cider - and only 6 apples to create this delicious dessert.
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| | Ms Bert as she is known by her friends was lucky enough to be coached by some of the best cooks in the Kaplan area. Her Dad, Wilton, has his own restaurant, her Aunt Carrie had a catering business and her grandma Mire had a lot of hungry mouths to feed. As the old saying goes, "the acorn does not fall very far from the tree", Ms Bert (she lets Maw Maw call her that) has learned well from the Masters creating this version using the Cajun favorites of eggplants and crab-meat. Not yet rated | | My Mom use to say, you can not sit on the fence about liver, you either like it or you don't. In our household, everyone loved it! Generally red pepper flavors better than black pepper for liver dishes. | | I can remember when my grandma cooked tapioca the vanilla flavor in it smelled so good; but I always wondered what tapioca was. From Wikipedia -Tapioca is essentially a flavourless starchy ingredient produced from treated and dried cassava (manioc) root and used in cooking. It is similar to sago and is commonly used to make a milky pudding similar to rice pudding. Purchased tapioca comprises many small white spheres each about 2 mm in diameter (although larger grain sizes are available). These are not seeds, but rather reconstituted processed root. The processing concept is akin to the way that wheat is turned into pasta. These tapioca pearls are made mostly of tapioca starch, which comes from the tapioca, or bitter-cassava plant. In other parts of the world, the bitter-cassava plant may be called mandioca, aipim, macaxeira, manioca, boba, or yuca.
Not yet rated | | Did you party hard when January 01, 2008 rolled in? Were you sleeping? Or sharing some of this wonderful easy to make dip; Hence the words "easy" and "bachelor", synonymous words indeed. The author was once a DJ and manager of the KROF radio station in Abbeville, LA but many Kaplanlites remember him from the days when his Dad had the store next door to the school, He was able to open a pack of cigarettes back then and sell cigarettes 2 for a quarter. Remember this without telling your age? A word on this dip: The longer left in the fridge the better. One day is good; the next day is better; and one week later it is "Oh my God, how good"! The secret is to have it last that long. | | This is a favorite family recipe for any get together or just because. Bridgeford is the brand recommended for this recipe. Bridgeford Foods manufactures frozen bread dough, biscuits, cinnamon roll doughs, sandwiches, beef jerky, snack, deli foods.
To have your bread have a real nice shiny crust brush lightly scrambled egg white on the dough before baking.
Not yet rated | | There are as many ways to make etouffe as there are gumbos, stews, courtboullion and sauce piquant. This etoufee has a nice combinaton of those dises. The author writes - "It's important to not add the shrimp until the end so they don’t become rubbery". I love the author's comment for the recipe yield...depends how hungry you are, So we are guessing ONE if you are hungry enough. One reminds me of the these fun facts from Recycling Fun Facts - Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.
* 350,000 aluminum cans are produced every minute!
* More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product.
* Once an aluminum can is recycled, it can be part of a new can within six weeks.
* Because so many of them are recycled, aluminum cans account for less than 1% of the total U.S. waste stream, according to EPA estimates.
* During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made.
* An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!
* There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can can be recycled.
* Aluminum can manufacturers have been making cans lighter -- in 1972 each pound of aluminum produced 22 cans; today it yields 29 cans.
Keep America and Acadiana Beautiful!
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| | Kristie writes - "I actually have a recipe that has been in my family for about a hundred years. It is an apple cake recipe, and it is an incredibly dense cake . I noticed a similar recipe on your website, but since mine isn't exactly the same I thought I would submit it to you. The secret to mine is the brown sugar and baking the cake in a cast iron skillet".
Talking about cast iron it was interesting to read on catfish gumbo's blog spot - HEAVY DUTY DECOYS - No one would make duck decoys out of cast iron, right? Wrong. The idea seems preposterous, yet hunters of the past often used them. These flat-bottomed birds, each weighing as much as 30 pounds, were set on the wings of sink boxes to provide stability and to keep the boxes flush with the water’s surface.
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