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| Green beans, otherwise known as snap or string beans, are the most popular edible pod bean in the United States. Mostly all Cajun children like these beans. I know I did!!! Not yet rated |
| Petit Pois is a common French term indicating petit "small or tiny" and pois "peas". Petit Pois are a memeber of the green pea family. Green peas. sweet peas, or petit pois were a common side dish served with Sunday roast.
Green peas are actually a member of the legume family. This family includes plants that bear pods enclosing fleshy seeds. Green peas do not require the long cooking times that are required by dried legumes such as split peas and pinto beans. Peas are a good low calorie source of protein. A 100-calorie serving of peas (about ¾ cup) contains more protein than a whole egg or a tablespoon of peanut butter and has less than one gram of fat and no cholesterol.
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| Carrot Factoid: Orange carrots predominate world-wide although some white types persist in western and eastern Europe (for livestock), some red (not orange) in Japan, some yellow and purple in the Mideast, and some purple, yellow, and red from Turkey to India and China.
This salad is a popular dish at family and holiday gatherings and Sunday dinner.
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| Picture of dish is in our Recipe Photo Album.
Although this is NOT Atkins-friendly it is certainly taste bud friendly. Bring this to a family gathering or serve for Sunday dinner and you will be the hit of the event. |
| Fun Facts About Corn
• Farmers grow corn on every continent except Antarctica.
• One bushel of corn will sweeten more than 400 cans of Coca-Cola.
• There are about 800 kernels in 16 rows on each ear of corn.
• The corncob (ear) is actually part of the corn plant’s flower.
• The main ingredient in most dry pet food is corn.
• Corn is America's number one field crop. Corn leads all other crops in value and volume of production.
• A pound of corn consists of approximately 1,300 kernels.
• Corn is used to produce fuel alcohol. Fuel alcohol makes gasoline burn cleaner, reducing air pollution, and it doesn't pollute the water.
• There is one silk for every kernel of corn on the cob.
• Cajuns use corn to make there ever popular Macque Choux dish.
• You can make this same dish with frozen corn & one can of cream corn instead of milk..
• See photo in our Recipe Photo Album |
| Atkins Friendly!!!!!
Before potatoes were abundant beyond South America, turnips were everyday staples, particularly in Europe during the Middle Ages. The origin of the turnip is vague but it may have come from northeastern Europe or Asia many thousands of years ago. Thriving in a cold, damp climate, turnips were the food of Europe’s poor, the majority of the population. At some undetermined point in history, the less nutritious turnip gave up its role as everyday vegetable to the more nutritious potato spud. How wonderful that the turnips found its way to Cajun Land.
Since the spud is more popular, why not use the the turnip the same way we do it competitor. Remember, good-quality turnips will be very firm, smooth-skinned and heavy for their size. The coloring will be light-purple on the top fading to bright-white at the bottom.
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| An ole Cajun folklore is that if it rains on June 8th, we wil have 40 days of rain. Cajun's call this Sant' de Medard!
Summer Rain Signs - Another generally believed weather rhyme is connected to summer rains. "If on the eighth of June it rain That foretells a wet harvest, men sayen” In France the weather on the feast of Saint Medard (June 8th) is said to determine whether the next few weeks will be wet or dry. If it rains, the rain will continue for four or five weeks, or recur at haying time. Rain on the 8th June in Norway and Hungary will lead to forty days of rain. In Flanders the day is July 6th, the feast of Saint Godelive. In Germany it is the 27th June, which is known as Seven Sleepers Day.
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| The title says it all.................MAMA's Beef Rice Dressing |
| This is a wonderful dressing and is intended as such. Although this dish has similar ingredients, it is not a stuffing. This is a great holiday side dish or family gathering. |
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| This dish is so fast and easy to prepare. As my daughter-in-law says, "This taste like we are at a restaurant". |
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