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| When Mom's says "Eat your beans", you are glad she cooked your favorite. According though to recent research a new reason to eat your beans.
According to a study of nearly ten thousand Americans, a diet containing at least 300 micrograms of the B vitamin folate (found in beans) reduces the risk of stroke and heart disease.
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| The Rice is Right....Come on Down....
Rice seems to be the dreaded first dish a new young bride has to learn how to cook. Of course now most brides have an electric rice cooker which takes the guesswork out of cooking rice. Sometimes though the power goes out and you want rice!!No electricity but there is still the gas stove, how am I to cook rice? Read below and remember not to stir while the rice will be cooking. Not yet rated |
| Such a light and refreshing dessert especially during the holiday season and Sunday dinner or Lenten Season.
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." (Charles Schultz)
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| Stacy writes, "I made this for people at work to show them what real Cajun food taste is. It was gone before I ate any. I live now in Oklahoma but originally from Louisiana." Stacy is true Cajun as her recipe reflects, a lil bit of dis and a lil bit of dat.
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| Many Cajuns refer to corn as macque choux (mach shoo). Originally however this was an Indian word meaning corn. |
| Need an idea for brunch, lunch, party or holiday - this works. Goes great with chili too. |
| "De chou" (day shoo) is the Cajun word for cabbage. Beats MawMaw's childhood nick name of "cabbage head", don't you think? No I am not sure why MawMaw was nicknamed that. |
| There are two varieties of sweet potatoes; the pale yellow with a dry flesh and the dark orange with a moist flesh. The dark orange variety is plumper in shape and somewhat sweeter than the yellow variety. What are frequently called yams, especially in the Southern U.S., are in fact sweet potatoes. The two are not related, even though they look similar and are used in pretty much the same way. Not yet rated |
| I had often wondered what "maque choux" meant in French. My friend, Howard, was smart enough to inform me that macque choux was the native American Indian word for corn.
Cajuns took these words to the limit. They prepare a great variety of many corn dishes. |
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| These hearty, delicious eggplant morsels can be used as a replacement for meatballs, or they can be fried into patties and eaten like burgers. Great for vegetarians!
The most common type of eggplant(aubergine or braham) eaten in the U.S. is the large, dark-purple Italian eggplant. Less common are the slender lavender and small white
types of eggplants. Eggplant is one of the least-frequently eaten vegetables in the U.S. Not yet rated |
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