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Thanks for the great website! My mom and I are repeat visitors. I look forward to more holiday recipes :)

I love this site! I come here to figure out what to cook for dinner every week. Keep the recipes comin'

Christina, I love your website. It is great!

The website is great, Chrissy. I just printed some recipes to try out. I'll try to submit of my own later. Keep up the good work. Happy Thanksgiving!

Yo Chrissy !! Love the site, love the recipes. Great job. Keep up the good work.

Happy Thanksgiving Christy! I sure have enjoyed yall website since im up here in Pleasant Garden, North Carolina. I will send in my recipes soon. Keep up the good work. Thanks for all the great recipes. Your friend, Vickie Lege

Love this ite.Like having my grandmaw back again!

I really love that crawfish pink stuff!!! I think it's called etouffee. It is soooo yummy!

hey thankx ur site really helped mme oput with a project i had to do ....YHANX a bunch

Hey, don't know if you remember me from school. I am closer in age to Chad. I saw the article in the kaplan herald today and decided to check it out. I am so glad that i did because my grandma taught me everything i know about cajun cooking, but she left me too soon to teach me everything. There was still a few things that i didn't have a chance to learn before she died. Now after searching through all her old recipe books not having any luck alot of my questions have been answered. Your site is great cause it is our way of doing it! Good luck! And Thanks!Tell your mom i said hi!

Another Good site by Cajuns. Great Job!

Read about your site in the Kaplan Herald and thought I would check it out. Good Job! I am originally from Kaplan, live in Lafayette now. I am sharing the site with friends. Good Luck. Preserving true Cajun Cooking is a great goal to have. Merci Beaucoup!

Good job Chris. Will be adding one of my recipes soon.

Great site. About time. Keep up the good work. "Lache Pas La Patat" H. C. "Papa" Meaux

My husband and I now live in San Antonio,Texas. Thank you for providing us with recipes we can no longer call up Grandma for!...........Gibson and Deborah Abshire

Looking good, Keep up the work. Daphne and I well submit after the holidays

Hey Chrissy, Good job on the website. Thanks for putting my Short Gumbo on the site.(For those who wanna know what I'm talking about in the search put in Bennetts Short Gumbo, its an awsome recipe if I may say so myself.) Anyway hope to be with you and Colby for the trip. Love always, Bennett

After enjoying the food of La. many times, I am always looking for new recipes. This is a great site. Keep up the good work.

I am very proud of both of you! Great site. A proud former teacher!

Great site This site will help keep cajun food and the cajun way of life alive for others to learn from. Thinks I will be shareing some recipes also.

This is a great resource. My brother sent it to me and I can't wait to share it with otheres.

I just heard about this site- great work! My children love to learn about the Cajun Heritage and will love bringing this site up at school.

Having grown up in South Louisiana, I really appreciate a site that does the Cajun Heritage Justice! Lovin' all the recipes and hope to be submitting some of my own soon! Congratulations!

lots of great recipes

Maw-Maw, thanks a lot for the info. It was very helpful.

Awesome site. I really enjoyed searching around. Please stop by my, Cajun Recipe site sometime.

Saw article in Kaplan Herald about website, decided to ceck it out. Great work!

This is great!!! I will be frequenting this site. Carlys

Thanks for the Cajun Fried Chicken receipe..Really appreciate it..You have a great site..Keep up the good work

thanks for the recipes. its like home away from home!

Cousins David and Cheryl Trahan told me about this website, so I give them credit for hooking me up to a GREAT website. It's time us Cajuns get our due! Really enjoyed Cajun Glossary!

I am so excited about finding this site. I have lived in new jersey for 10 years and miss home. thanks!!!!!

Great web site. Some of best times are when we are visiting friends in Kaplan. And we love Cajun food. Keep up the great work. John & Sharon

Chrissy you'll doing a great job. Enjoying the receipes and will send more receipes later. Keep up the good work.. You'll have Happy Easter.

well the recipes here do help me out some times , see my old mama passed away and my sisters and i miss calling her to ask how to cook a dish . see we never could write down her recipes they never messered nothing back in her day and thats how she learn so we always would call her , but now she is gone and we miss her so much even her cooking , no matter how much we try to get it just like mom's we can't .

i have lived in alabama for the last five years. I have not yet found any real cajun food here. I feel like i'm starving to death. My children say as soon as they are old enough to go home that they are leaving. Thanks to your receipts I might be able to satisfy our starving stomachs. Thanks for being so willing to share these great receipts

Enjoyed your site. I have added it to my favorites.

Hi!Just to let you know that I have just started looking at your site and I am enjoying it a lot. I have given your site to friends and they all have been going back to it over and over. I will try and send a few recipes soon and plan on using your recipes often. Debbie Richard debbie richard

I have really enjoyed alot of these recipes thank you for this website. I will recomend this to all my friends.

Hooo Boy, I Lam dis website!I spent the whole afternoon printing recipes to take to North Carolina when we move, just in case thier computer dont speak cajun..Thank You! tom jones

Like your web site, will be checking it often. Laura's famlily came from Amite, la., so you know we like good cajun cooking. Keep it going.

Wonderful site! You make us Cajuns proud mais sha:) Merci beaucoup!

Hi Chrissy: Remember me from Rost Middle? One of your favorite fans, Ms. Bert, introduced me to your site when you first started & I have been enjoying it ever since. I'm really proud of both of you!!! You're doing all of us a great service. THANKS!

Ireallyenjoyedyourwebsite.Interesting.Indeed...

Originally from Opelousas. Educated in Creole foods by my mother, grandmother and aunt, as well as the ladies of the Foods and Nurition Dept at USL(69-73). I'm gathering recipes for our Thanksgiving Celebration. Your recipes look good. Looking forward to trying them.

Amazing website!

Hello All! I was very happy to stumble upon your web site! I am looking for any rice cooker recipesand you have pointed me in the right direction. I will send recipes to you all soon and feel free to send me more. Your GI *AF Retired* in Germany demilspencer@yahoo or msn.com

I'm so glad I found this web site. I have a 16 year old step son who wants to learn to cook and these recipes are going to be so helpful (considering that I myself don't cook).

Love the site. Brings back a lot of great memories from my grandmothers cooking. Keep the great old recipes coming!!

Hello, very nice page, keep on. Greetings from L.A.

Thank you very much for providing such a website. The recipes are great and I don't cook the same things over and over again, now. Guest what! I put a little twist on the sock-it-to me cake recipe. Instead of using butter recipe cake mix, I used butter fudge recipe and it was delicious Sha'. Well anyway thank you so much. Keep it up. OH! before I forget why can't I get through to ask maw-maw a question. I actually wanted to know if she had any remedies for severe eczema.

I started learning from Paul Prudhomme and other local chefs years ago, and I continue to learn the Louisiana culinary art from sites such as this. Thank you for your efforts. ...now if I could just learn Cajun French... ;)

This site is very interested ! keep going !

This is real fun and real good eating! Thanks so much for the site, We are in Equatorial Guinea, west Africa, along way from Cajun country. we are enjoying a lot of your recipes. Recipes I didn't remember to bring with me, I am one of few wives here, and the guys that we feed are most appreciative..... Today red beans and ricE tomorrow?????Thanks

Thanks for this website! Miss the real flavor of "Cajun" food and have to try to duplicate this flavor myself.Your recipes help out treemendously!! Most folks don't know what maque choux is.

Nice Site!

I enjoy your website I have found recipes that my Mpm & Dad use to cook and found some I had heard of and never tried. This is a super website and thanks for sharing it

Great site. Lots of useful information. Well done !

GREAT WEB SITE!!! I absolutely love this site. Keep up the good work!!!

glad i found your web site!! i went to usl as a grad. assistant from 1978 to 1980!! that is when i became a north carolina coonass!! fell in LOVE with the cajun people,food,music,etc!!! been cooking cajun foods since!! love that gumbo!! thanks for the recipes!!! geaux cajuns!!! ULL!!!!! saw them play south carolina in columbia!!!

This a wonderful site. It has a very warm and homey feel, and it's sharing our great culture with the world. Thanks and keep it up!

Some recipes that I have been seeking for a while.

Been looking for a good recipe for the old time bouille and sweet dough tarts. Thanks for the help. Tried the bouille so far. It tastes great.

A wonderful site with lots of "goodies".. I am a stay at home husband with physical disability... I really like your site and I'm ready to try out many of your delicious sounding recipes! How do I get my wife to like seafood? ha ha

Lucky I found this site, sure miss cajun food, having lived in Buras when I was younger but never forgot the cajun flavor. Now everyone here wants gumbo. I will just give them this great site. Thanks, Bonnie

I'm excited to have received this site from my neice Jessica. Thanks. I know I will use this and it has been added as one of my favorites

I'm glad I found this recipe, because I can't find mine.

just found your web site through live journal looks like it will be a great site i do have some recipes @ greatcajuncooking.com, i'll try to get them on your site by the way i now live in houston, tx and you're right there are not many good cajun resturants here.

A friend told me about this great site. I collect cook books and recipes. Keep up the good work

I love this web-site!! Keep up the good work. I will pass the site on to others who wanna know "how do you make this" whenever I make a cajun dish. God Bless you & your family!!!

Corrected copy: Representing the northern part of Louisiana, the part up in Montana before Louis and Clark, lol. Great that we found your website thanks to Linda Faye B. Thanks

Your site is flawless.Your team should be very proud of it's creation.

I am originally from New Orleans..My Mama was Ville Platte French, and my Daddy,a Son of Italian Immigrants. I am just now coming back home to my Roots, here in La., after living WAY TOO LONG, in Texas.(19 years) I love to cook Cajun/Italian, and always glad to find new things to try. Love your site. Thanks for sharing.

Your site has really turned out well. It's good to see my friends so successful in what they attempt..

Love the website! Great recipes - it is all of the things that my own grandma from Kaplan makes. Now I can make them too!

I am from South Africa and love your recipes. I used to live in Lafayette a long time ago. Keep up the excellent site. Johan

I think this website is great. Im a northern boy,with a passion for cajun food.Im in school right now for Culinary Arts, and someday hope to open a seafood/cajun restaurant.I have a few cajun connections with my teamates.I play college football, and a large chunk of my teamates are from the great state of Louisiana. They themselves have worked on Shrimpin boats. And they have told me,and others. That I am a southern boy, I was just misplaced. I love learning about the cajun culture and its food. And I often cook cajun food for my teamates in the dorms. Ive been to lots of cajun sites. But this one has a friendly feel to it. So good job,keep it up. And thanks.

Maw Maw, Thank you so very much for your help with the recipe. It is much appreciated. Thank You, Scott, Angie and Logan

Maw-maw, I was driving across your state last year and stopped and had this thing that was like, rice with pork meat in a deep fried ball!! It was fantastic!! But, I could not for the life of me remember the name of it until I came across your site. BOUDIN BALLS!!! Thank you, thank you. If you have more recipes for these please let me know. Thanks again, Steve. Great Web site! Will be a regular.

I'm from Lake Charles and have been living in SC since 1986, Thanks for keeping such great recipes.. Some I remember from my Grandmother's kitchen and am very happy to have found them... will be a regular from now on. Thanks again !!!

I AM 36 YEARS OLD AND HAVE LIVED AROUND KINDER AND ELTON ALL MY LIFE. I LOVE TO COOK AND EXPERIMENT WITH FOOD. MY MOM IS THE GREATEST TEACHER AND COOK.

I WILL COMMENT AFTER I TRY YOUR DIVINITY CANDY RECEIPE.

This is a Grate Website.The recipes or just grate. Thank You and please keep it going.

Raised in the South, lived San Francisco, went to Lafayette to build something, left my heart in the Atchafalya. Caint wait to try the Boudin. Friends in Mier. Listen to KBON

I now live in Austin, Texas

i am trying out a new recipe every week end. they are all great. thanks, p bell

I think your site is great,it really reminds me of my grandmothers cooking and the way she taught me to cook.I will tell everyone I know about your site,thanks for all the wonderful recipes. Tricia

i love looking at all the great recipes it reminds me of all my family in louisana since ive lived in west va for 12 years i cant forget great cajun food my husband was raise on beans and cornbread but now its all about cajun!!!

Hello, very nice page, keep on. Greetings from L.A.

I really enjoy your website.. It comes in real handy when cooking for my family and friends

Oh my god. The Crawfish Etoufee - Lite Version is sooooo good! My family loves your recipe. Thanks for the suggestion, I feel like a star!

I recently moved from South Louisiana to Wyoming and am missing the southern cooking some bad when I came upon your site. Thank you for posting these so my family and I can get a little taste of "home".

I love to cook and I love trying new recipes. I especially love Crawfish Cornbread, have you published that recipe on your site? You should, so everyone could enjoy it, it's delicious. Thank you, Cindy

My family came through eastern Canada from France and settled in Wisconsin. Others migrated south to St. Louis area and then to New Orleans.

Ilove your recipes.keep them comeing.

Hey there everyone. This was my first time to the site, and I'm so glad that this is online now. I'm from New Orleans and my family if from Kaplan/ Cow Island area. I hope to contribute and take many recipes from here.

Hey!! This website is perfect for us newly-wed GRITS!!!!.....(Girls Raised In The South)

with us losing our cajun heritige, it is a wonderful idea to have a place like to this to go for good cajun recipes. thanks a lot

Hey great site.My fiance is from Grammercy, full Cajun with the taste buds too. I had never cooked that way. This site has been great and hes in heaven now...Ty for the site its great!!!

I was born in Eunice and raised in San Antonio, TX. Married a man from Houma so in order to keep his tummy happy I had to find my roots again! Your website is great!!

Hello All: Im looking for a really got boudin recipe. Old fashion homemade boudin like the old people used to make. If u can help me email it to me at [email protected] Thanks!!!!!

I need some recipes from Camaroon for my french project. if you could help that would be great.

Good site. Good recipes, Good job. Thanks

I am from Louisiana, married a yankee and he loves cajun food, and also the accent that we all have down there.Love the website and recipes. will visit often email if you want too.

I had a friend from Texas e-mail me this morning for a boudin recipe. When I did a web search I came up with this site and BOY am I glad I didn't have that recipe for her myself! I'm THRILLED to find you! Will be submitting some of my favorites too!

love the photos! thanks!

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I was browsing on the internet and found ya'll. Ya'll have recipes that my grandmother used to cook a long time ago. I was thrilled to find them. I can't wait to start cooking for my children and grandchildren. Thank you so much for giving me back apart of my past.

You have the best food website that I have found on the internet so far. Keep up the great work and know that I try to visit this site daily. Kerry Melancon

Don't know whether to laugh or cry, I am that thrilled to find your website. C'est Magnifique!

Was delighted to run across your web site by searching for cajun recipes.

This is some of the best recipe's I've seen. Love this site. Keith Gay

i was absolutel DElighted to run across this site looking for a turtle sauce piquant recipe! i was tickled with what i found and will shore be back!

I found this site looking for a fig preserve recipe for my husband. I found so much more than that! I love this site , from the French-speaking tips to 'Ask Maw-Maw', because that's what I usually do anyway. This is a very informative and fun site to go to. I will always use it for future recipes.

Mimi always made the best cush cush .My kids love it ..but I couldnt fix it to save my life . That's what I get for moving to Texas. Thanks for a great recipe!!

great site

great recipes. just happened to run across this site by accident. my mom is from kaplan and dad from abbeville. it is great to find these good cajun recipes. glad to have found it!!!

Thanks for the help!!! I couldn't cook without this site.

THIS IS BY FAR THE BEST RECIPES ON THE INTERNET WORLDWIDE! I JUST CAME ACROSS IT BY ACCIDENT,AND I AM THRILLED TO FIND IT.THE RECIPES ARE AWESOME. KEEP THEM COMING THANKS A MILLION!

Hey Chrissy!!Checked out the site. Pretty cool..Keep up the good work. I'm sure to use some of those recipes.

You will not believe how impressed I am with this web site; I could hardly stop browsing!! My thanks to all of you. I was born in Kaplan and lived on Guidry St. I still have relatives in abbeville,Kaplan and Lafayette. I now live in Austin, Texas; no real Cajun recipes or Authenic Cajun dishes. I just had to complement your efforts.

This website is great! I'm a Rayne native living in Seattle, and I MISS ACTUAL CAJUN FOOD!

Very nice web site. Congratulations! It's been fun browsing.

VERY NICE! KEEP UP THE HARD WORK!

This has been so much fun looking at all the recipes. What a great job you'll are doing. Callie

This web site is the coolest thing since jirbaud jeans! I just cooked my first boiled egg thanks to you crazy cajuns! How bout a recipe for kickin tuna salad for us carb counters? Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler avec Cheverolet!

Thanks for a very nice page and a willngness to help all cooks in distress. I asked you good folks to search out there for a "real" debris recipe and you went to work and located a few good ones from old timers. Thanks, John

Chrissy, what a wonderful web site! Glad we got to see you this trip back home. Keep up the great work educating people on how to eat great food. We love you!!

I am happy to find some of recipes. Also, happy that you don't have to buy all those unusual ingrediants that might be use once.

I JUST READ ABOUT THIS WEBSITE IN THE KAPLAN HERALD. AWESOME SIGHT!!! AS SOON AS I GET A CHANCE IM GOING TO ADD SOME OF MY FAVORITE RECIPES TOO THE SIGHT. GREAT WORK CHRISTINA!!!! P.S. I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH COLBY AND MY SISTER IS PAM LEGE JUST TOO LET YOU KNOW..HAHA!!!

Hi Christina, I saw your picture and article in the Kaplan Herald today, 10-6-04. I will be visting your site and hope to send a few recipes of my own and my Mom's later. Tell your Mom Hi!

Good cooking! Good eating! Good recipes to do both! How good can it get! Thanks for your initiative and work in getting the word out that "Cajun" is, by far, the best cooking and eating in the world. I look forward to many visits to your site.

Excellent site. I hope to have some of my recipes in here soon. I went to school with Chad. Tell him I said Hi.

Saw the article in the Herald. Thought it was just great. My mom is Ethel David. Great Work.

Hi Christina, Just wanted to say hi!! Hope to see you soon! Tell mom, Chad, and Colby I said hi!!

Hi, great site with foods that I, as an Acadian from NS, will try. Great work all. Cheers Eric

I really miss cajun food!!! When you see "Cajun" in Virginia, it has lots of pepper in it!!!

Hey Chris its ur lil bro here. checking up on the site and its awsome. loving all the things u have done for this site and helping to keep the recipes a live for when we get old lol. PEOPLE THIS GIRL IS AWSOME MUCH PROPS. love ya sis, bennett. p.s. we beat yall in football this year whoo hoo, go wildcats lol

I just love your site! I think it's the next best thing to crawfish. I love you! Nanny Racheal

I found this site by accident. Glad I did. I will be back again.

Hi Chrissy, Just got off the phone with Maw Maw, just love her calls, we really can get carried away, but it's so much fun. We mentioned the guestbook and I decided I've been around long enough that I need to post something. HaHa Just wanted to let you know how proud I am of you, it's so very up key having you and mom keep our food heritage, customs, etc. alive and making it all available to the world! Mr. Robert & I travel a lot and the "so called" Cajun dishes we are served in restaurants are really being crucified at most places, so it's nice seeing recipes we were raised on being posted and being kept alive like this. Keep up the good work! You guys are the best! Yawl make me "PROUD". Ms. Bert

Lord I come here everyday and still enjoy looking at the recipes all over,hahah. keep up the good work. kenneth

Have been to New Orleans 1 time and love the people and the food. Can't at to go back. For now trying to learn cajun cookin

Hi Chrissy! Great site - I read about it in the Herald. We are living in Fayetteville, Ark right now but will always call Kaplan "home". I graduated with Chad in 87, tell him hello. Good luck on your site - Oh and thanks for setting all those people straight on what a gumbo is really made with. HA Monica

I found this web site while looking around the web. It is the BEST one around that gives the true recipes to our food that our grandparents fixed, keep up the great work

found this site while surfing for Cajun recipes & listening to Cajuan music on net In Cajun heaven

being a Cajun girl I'm always putting a twist to all my cooking. wish there was a do you think this will work section, for recipes we think up, to ask this author her opinion.

I was born and raised in Church Point, La. I cook as much as I can of the Cajun foods but my only problem is when I cook I have to leave out garlic because a lady I give food to is allergic to garlic. Yes, that is weird in my Cajun book.

O my GOSH!!!!! I LOVE this site. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! We have lived in Northern Virginia for 2 years after living our whole lives in South Louisiana. I have been SO homesick for good cajun food that I read cajun cookbooks cover to cover just to feel like I'm home again. Thanks for a wonderful, comforting website!!!

This is absolutley a great site. Although I have not seen where a light rue is used in the gumbos or File'. My grandmother always used a rue, I have been cooking since I was nine years old.

Love the website! Would love a printed cookbook of the website even more! Thanks for the great recipes. Looking forward to trying a lot of them.

I visit this site often. I think it is GREAT! In fact, I refer this site to my sisters and a special brother-in-law, in Mississippi. I used to have to write out the recipe, now they just visit your site. We are proud of you in Kaplan...I'm disapointed that I will miss the program on Channel 3, will be in Mississippi at that time. Hopefully Ms. Bert will tape the program for me...

Thanks alot. The recipes that MawMaw give me was great. I had to do a project for my English class and this recipe work really great!!! Thanks agian. Oh yeah, everyone loved them.

i was looking for a recipe for syrup cake, found this one, and it is the one i was looking for.Thanks. Chrissy, are you, priscilla lemaire, daughter?

Awesome Website. One day I was looking for some recipes from back home, and I came upon ya'll website. This is cool!I was born and raised in Kaplan, I did not move to Texas till after graduation. I graduated in 1993. Now with this website I got all my home recipes, and I been cooking them for my Texas husband. He seems to like most of our food. Hey Amy Gaspard I remember you, and I know you probably gotta remember me. Anyway great job with this site.

Great web site. I have been looking for old Cajun recipes and have hit the jackpot. Great job!

Your spot(s) on Good Morning Acadiana today were EXCELLENT. As often as I watch in the morning, I have never gotten up to go and check out a web site. Since my Mom has been gone, there have been oh-so-many times when I wished she were here to tell me what to do sometimes when cooking......your web site will CERTAINLY help!!!! Thanks!

I live in Orlando, FL, but am from New Iberia. I would love to make Washington pie. When I was a child, we could get at the bakery for 5 cents. I recall that they would use left over doughnuts and anything else that did not sell the previous day. Recently, while visiting NI I tried to purchase some but it was not the same thing. Do you have any receipes that I could try? I tried to send this through contact us and could not.

IM FROM LOUISIANA, BUT NOW IN ITALY, AND I REALLY MISS THE FOOD, IF ANYONE WANTS TO SENDME RECEIPE, I WOULD THANK MUCH

Not long after returning home from spending Thanksgiving out in the country at daughter's house with family & friends, my husband Robert & I were quite surprised to see Ms Chrissy & her friend at our front door. Chrissy was in for a while after doing her spot on local tv station & came a calling. We had a nice visit, but not long enough, so we invited them over for supper the next night. Chrissy & her friends enjoyed some southern hospitality while feasting on some good old fashinoned gumbo & the fixings. After some good time eating and visiting Chrissy & friends went their merry way carrying home some cake & home made cookies. Chrissy, really enjoyed your visit, it had been a long time, let's not make it so long next time. And maybe sometime in the future we will surprise you..Enjoyed meeting the gang also. Love ya!

Thank you for the quick reply to my question on roux and gumbo. I really enjoy this site. I was born in Pt. Arthur, TX, but have been away for many years. Your website is like a Gulf breeze after a summer storm. Jerry in Ohio

Chrissy I saw you and your Mom on T.v. last week. those were some good spots, epecially letting everyone know what good cajun cooking is all about. Keep up the good work. Make MawMaw Proud.......

I find that the recipes on this site are true cajun! Congradulations on a job well done

I was transplanted for 25 yrs in Baton Rouge and I miss it so much....I want to come back home but I have a job to do here in TX and that is to make sure that my precious sister never has to go into a nursing home as long as she lives, I want that as badly as I want to serve m Lord, but please pray that one day I can come back to the place that I called home and that is still so good to me. Thank you for these wonderful recipes and a trip back down memory lane for me....Bless ya'll.....Helen

I enjoy the recipes you have. I couldn't believe I found the recipe I've been looking for years, fast in here. I also submitted a recipe that I really hope you will enjoy. I watch TV 3 and seen you on and had to see what kind of recipes I could now really enjoy making for my family. Thank you for a job well done.

I have family that has moved away from LA, so I sent them your website address. I know they really appreciate it just as much as I do.

On peut trouver toujours une bonne recette à essayer chez MawMaw.There is real cool stuff in these pages.Just love to visit .Bonne féte et laissez les bon temps rouler.

(((I LOVE YOUR SITE!!))) The recipes are true Cajun. Keep up the good work!

Great website you have here. I'm originally from Louisiana and I miss alot of the Cajun Meals I used to eat. Now that I've found this website, I can make the delicious meals, again. Thank You :)

GREAT SITE, LOVE TO LOOK A DIFFERENT RECIPES. GREAT CAJUN COOKING HERE IN "LAPLAND" (WHERE LOUISIANA LAPS OVER INTO TEXAS,ON THE BORDER) HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

I had the privilege of spending Christmas Eve dinner with Maw Maw, known to me as Ms Ruby and her husband, Bob, delightful daughter Ms Chrissy and friend, Ms Tilly. It was a wonderful evening filled with Cajun cook'n. Loved everything from the seafood gumbo, pickled pears, cabbage salad to the pear pie and praline candies. Um um um good! After the sampling of this Louisiana cuisine, I'm hooked and will be back to this site to see if I can cook me up some gumbo.

Finally, a website that could teach and help people know and learn what cajuns are all about. If they visit, they will never forget the great food and hospitality. Thanks, for sharing our recipes with the world. Keep up the great work.

Great recipe site. I check it almost every day for new recipes. Keep them coming!

You used to have a place on each recipe that gave you information as to how much it took to prepare meals for so many people. It was so handy and really worked for me. please let me know just where i can find this information email [email protected]

Just found this .I'm going to try the Shrimp recipe tonight.I live on the gulf coast of Alabama so I can get seafood fresh.Thanks for the recipes!Have a good day and God Bless!!!

Just found this site thru Lena Bertrands daughter, Leslie. I can't wait to try some of the recipes. I've alrerady started to download some of them.

Hi, I found your site while searching for info on Cajun Weddings. I love all the info and recipes. I'll definately be a regular at this site. Thanks, KAP

Ruby (Maw-Maw), Chrissy & Brandon.. I am here to rave about the cookbook you guys have put together. Couldn't wait to get my copy, it's awesome. I picked mine up along with a copy for a friend & took mine with me to toning tables, I went thru it while doing toning exercise, that's how much I was looking forward to going thru it. It's well put together & the recipes are just so down home. Love the graphics, awesome.. Bob, what can I say the poem is so authentic!! You must have been a Cajun in a before life. So folks, get yourself a copy of Maw-Maw's cuisine, you will not be sorry you did. To all my buddies from Cajun Land now living in the West, keep up the good work. Before I close I have to make a comment of the 'second paragraph' of the introduction page, it says it all! Until next time..your faithful fan in Cajun Land.

Hello folks, There's a small pickle company in Ontario, Canada that makes a pickle called Ken's Perkles. I've never tasted any thing like them before. Any one ever heard of them? Seems you can only get them in that part of the world. Would love to have the recipe. Thanks JS

We live on the Gulf coast also so we have access to a lot of fresh seafood. Steve's Cobia Courtbouillon recipe really caught my attention. Now I have one more reason to look forward to the spring Cobia run. Great website!

We Lived in New Orleans for 2 of the best years of our life.My husbands family is for Lake Charles area (Ragley). And we love this website it almost makes us feel at home.But thanks to the Navy we can't be there. Thanks Deby

What a fantastic site! It has all the food my parents used to cook. Thank you!

I just love this website. I love cooking creole foods and eating them as well. I am thrilled to have found this site. I will enjoy utilizing these recipes in the future.

I love your website. You have just about every recipe my parents and grandparents used to cook. I have made a couple of your recipes for my family and my husband and kids loved them. I am so glad I ran across this site, although by accident I have visited often. Thank you so much and keep sending those recipes so I can keep making them in my home.

This is the most impressive, well designed, and functional web-site I've seen in ages. Looking forward to trying some of the recipies listed and visiting often!

I was so excited to find your website, I have a friend from Louisiana that introduced me to gumbo and I was hooked. I love all things cajun. I cannot wait to try some of the recipes you have listed.

Oh my goodness! Found you all when I was looking for a hog's head cheese recipe. EVERYTHING on the site is swell, except that it makes me homesick. I live in Oaxaca, Mexico--not the easiest place to find crawfish. I DID find dried (!) crawfish here once, & actually made a decent etoufee-ish dish with them. Thank you, thank you--I neeeeeeded this site!

Cest Bon! Your website is wonderful. My wife and I now live in rural Mississippi and they don't know how to cook cajun at all. I have enjoyed cooking for all my redneck friends and they can't get enough. I will be using many of your recipes and sending you some of mine too. Again, thanks for the GREAT website true to my heritage!

really enjoyed this page, thank you so much for letting me see it. JUDY GAUDET

This website is great! I love all of the REAL cajun recipes. Keep em coming!

Dalon, Cajun food, much like Cajun accents, varies from Parish to Parish. It also adapts to its surroundings -- for instance, our roux, generally made with oil or butter, is a variation of French reduction made with the more expensive heavy cream. Our ancestors could not afford the cream so they relied on animal fat to make the roux. This evolution applies to modern day Cajuns. Many of the canned products are a replacement for fats, which have been shown to have deadly effects on our hearts. While we do have etouffees with canned products, we also have versions without any soups -- just butter and crawfish fat. It's important to note that while we do have evolved recipes, we also include almost all of the original recipes we have been given. Couche-couche, gumbo, and pain perdue are just a few. If you feel as though our site is not accurate enough, I encourage you to submit recipes that you feel are accurate. Our web form can be found at http://www.realcajunrecipes.com/submit/

I'm sorry, but as an 8th generation Louisiana French Acadian, I see very, very few authentic recipes here! Shortcuts, canned ingedients such as soups, tomatoes, and cheese and pasta dishes are very new, if they can be called "Cajun" at all. Different cooks had different styles - but this is too far off the mark in a lot of instances. It's unfortunate to put this out there for people who don't know authentic, wonderful, true French Louisiana/Cajun cooking. My French Acadian grandmere's are turning in their graves! Let's be more accurate.

As a new arrival to NOLA I became very interested in Cajun cooking. Your site is a God send. Thanks for the wonderful recipes and keep'em coming. I gar-on-tee.

This is a great website and real authentic cajun cooking like our maw maw's and taunts prepared for their families. My cajun heritage has been transplanted to North Carolina and I have found many so called cajun resturants and fast food places trying their best to serve the original taste and character of a real cajun. There is no other food like it in the world and noone can match the flavor and hospitality of Southwest La. The Real Cajun in us never dies it just lives on in our families and friends we meet along the road of life. God bless all the cajun cooks! Vickie M. Lege

i visit this site often and have used several of the recipes but, i also go to the other parts of the site. great site!!

What a great site! Your cooking genius only is outweight by your intellectual insight to the "real cajuns" of louisiana. My dad was a car salesman at the ford place for 43 years and I am a 1958 graduate of "the Kalan Pirates" Have lived in Crowley, La for the past 40 years but still visit my sister who lives in kaplan.I have signed with my nickname as everyone has one in Kaplan! Jeffrey "Jay" Guidry

What a wonderful site. I have been looking for recipies of dishes I had eaten as a child. I thought they were lost forever. Then i stumbled across your site looking for a (Porrige recipe that my Aunt Tee would make with cake chunks in it.) Seeing all the familiar recipes brought back so many memories some of which I could almost still taste. I loved the way most of the dishes called for ingredients that I already have around the house, Like I am sure it was back then, simple and delicious. Thanks again, I will pass on your site information.

I found this web site while looking around the web. It is the BEST one around that gives the true recipes to our food that our grandparents fixed, keep up the great work

My sister told me about your site, and I can't begin to tell you how much I love it!!!!! I'm originally from Lake Charles, LA, but live in North Central Mississippi now, and I've really missed my "Cajun Food roots"! Your wonderful site has made it possible for me to feel connected with my fellow Cajuns, and has made it possible for me to find recipes of foods I enjoyed as a child growing up in Southwest Louisiana, specifically, fig cake!!! Keep up the wonderful work you've been doing!!! Frances Breaux Smith

WOW THIS IS GREAT I LOVE CAJUN FOOD,NOW I CAN LET OTHERS ENJOY IT TOO.THANKS FOR THE GREAT WORK. DEBORAH PARKER

My grandmother used to grow white squash and make a vanilla pudding. I have finally found the recipe on your site.What a wonderfulexperience this site is. It brings back so much of my heritage something i do not want to lose. THANKS FOR ALL THE MEMORIES

Great to find all the Cajun Foods on the Net. Also wonderful to see your guest book with folks from down south. God Bless, Eat Good and Live Long.

I just happened to stumble upon this website while searching for recipes. Good job on the website and good luck to you! Glad to see hometown success! Let me know if you ever need help! Again, very cute website!

Great website! My jowls quivered & mah tongue drooled as I read thru all the fantastic recipes you have posted. I love Cajun/Creole food! I was displaced to grow up in the north but have always ate like a true Luzian'n.. Pass da hot sause pleez..I now live in Fla & jes' a few hours from 'dem gooood groceries'..**course, I'm pretty good in the kitchen too** Thanx!

I was just listening to KBON,great Cajun music,and started browsing the links page. Thought I would look up boudin as I have heard of it quite a few times on the TV as being delicious. Wondered if I could make it myself. I would need to get sausage skins first. Regards from Scotland

GREAT SITE WITH MOUTH WATERING GOODIES. I LOVE TO COOK,NOW WILL MAKE SOME GOOD OLD CAJUN RECIPES. THANKS FOR A GREAT TIME. GOD BLESS YOU AND THE U-S-A.

My daughter just moved to Lake Charles, LA. after graduation from college in Kansas. I think this site is great to familiarize myself with Cajun Cooking. Thanks!

YOUR RECIPES ARE GREAT I LOOK ALOT AT YOUR WEBSITE. I DO LIKE SEEING NEW RECIPES ON IT.

Love the site! I get to try new recipes & see how others have perfected, or put a new spin on them!

love the site

Mais cher, you know I just love this website, yeah. I was born in Erath and raised in New Iberia. Have moved away but still LOVE to cook cajunized food.

This is an awesome site. Keep up the great work.

Used to live in AL (went to school there) & came over to LA ~ 1 weekend/month. That was 25 years ago. Came across this site on KBON website, and that was a good thing- they were killing me with all of the ads for restaurants & food stores- had my stomach GROWLING, & when something that big growls at you, you listen! Have tried half-a-dozen recipes without a single clunker. Only 971 to go. Only problem is that I can't find a food store up here that carries authentic cajun/creole ingredients. The roux that I've found up here just doesn't taste the same- just too processed. Hey! maybe I can find a recipe for that on your site! -Basil

I was glad to find your web site. I love Cajun food and I love to cook. I am starting to make sausage and I am going to try to make some with some of the recipes from your site. thanks again. Roxanna

Wow, I typed in "Ziploc Omelet" and found this site. I am excited. So much so that I just ordered 4 of your books for Christmas gifts. Well, 3 for gifts, one is for me. I will spend a lot of time here. We live in Houston but my wife was a Crowley girl 'til I brought her here. We are know as the Cajun Cooks in our circle. Can't wait for the books to get here. Earl & Nevelyn

I really like your recipts!!Easy to find-KEEP IT UP!!THanks

found great recipes and keep them coming. thanks.

yum!

g'day maw-maw and all, as neil young said, "Long may you run!"

Sha-tee-my-baby love your recipes just like my ma-ma's theres not a bad cook in my family because of our true Acadian heritage .....Keep it up !!!!!! J Latta Lafayette, La.

Great site. Keep up the good work, Guys! I'm sure Brandon and I are related, somehow... Oh, and Air America Radio Rocks!!

Dis is da bess recipe site eva seen

I'm looking for a "Jambalaya Pie" recipe that has 3 or 4 differents meat, rice and past, that is topped with mozzeralla cheese and baked in a big deep dish pizza pan.

Hi , Just ran across your site on cajunchristmas.org. These people are from New York and just visited Abbeville and our area in December. They enjoyed their stay so much they even found your web site to share with New York. Keep the delicious reciepes coming. I havebeen sitting here for 3 hours now and can't leave it alone. Abbeville, La.

Made a new friend on a flight last evening. He told me about this website. After looking at some of the receipes.....yum, yum.

I am originally from Abbeville and when I saw your website I had to check it out. I saw the Jack miller's hamburgers and I remember going to the May festival and having those burgers! The best. I come home and bring back evangeline bread and jack millers along with all the other good stuff. Thanks for the recipe!

I just found this site a couple of days ago and must say it is incredible. Just really started cooking about 2 years now and can't stop cooking. My Grandmother worked for Jack Miller back in the 50's and 60's. I remember going to visit her at work sometimes and standing on the large pots they cooked everthing in and help stir the ingredients. Man that almost brings a tear to my eye. Any ways, for all of us that are no longer back in La., this site absolutely is the best link ever. Tahnk you MaMa Ruby, Chrissy and Brandon. Much Love to you all for your efforts.

I live in Humble, Texas, but my heart is in Louisiana. I was real excited to find you web site. I ordered your cook book. I have a lot of good cajun friends here in Humble, Texas.

I just found this website and I'm thrilled. I'm originally from Kaplan-I lived right down the road from Christina. Christina it was so nice seeing you right after Hurricane Katrina- it made my day. This website is great!! I'm very proud of my cajun heritage and this website surely is showing people what good cajun food is. Hope to see you again soon Christina.

great site. love the recipes. Keep em comin thanks

ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL RECIPE SITE. THANKS A MILLION FOR ALLOWING ME TO COOK CAJUN-STYLE!

Yummy! Can't wait to start cookin'!

Displaced Fla cracker looking for those dishes that aren't available at the corner mega-mart. Great job & keep it up!

Just a displaced Fla cracker that's looking for those recipes that not everyone has ever heard about. Cracklin's or salt pork isn't too familiar in hockey country. Can't find yellow rice dinners either. Keep up the good work!

I really like your recipes--I love cajun food!

I found your web-site and think its GREAT.I lived down there for 9 yrs. and just went back this past weekend. Wish I NEVER had to go back home to TEXAS, LOVE THE PEOPLE DOWN THERE!!!!

it's good to see part of my history sill alive and well. i now live in texas,but my home will always be louisana.

Always trying recipes from here. Born and raised eating this kinda food!!!

FOUND THIS WEBSITE AFTER GOING TO GONZALES SEVERAL TIMES AND VISITING FRIENDS. COULD STAND NOT KNOWING HOW TO COOK SOME OF THE BEST FOOD I'VE EVER EATEN......HOPE THIS GETS ME ROLLING. I KNOW WHERE THE BEST JAMBALYA I'VE EVER EATEN IS COOKED...I WANT TELL ON YOU GENE

Where is the heritage section on that damn crazy hog huntin dog called a catahoula. I have one, just curious.

You must try the crawfish enchiladas! The stuffing was so delicious I found myself eating it out of the bowl!

I AM FROM CROWLEY,BUT I NOW LIVE IN KY...UP HERE IT IS VERY HARD TO FIND SOME OF THE FOODS TO COOK CAJUN DISHES. THE DISHES I GROW UP ON. I AM SO GLAD TO COME ACROSS THE SITE,CAUSE THERE ARE ALOT OF DISHES THAT MY MAW MAW USED TO COOK ME WHEN I WAS A LITTE GIRL, AND I COULD NOT REMEMBER HOW TO COOK IT. SO, I WAS CALLING HER TO FIND OUT HOW TO COOK THE DISHES. NOW I DON'T HAVE TO THANKS TO THIS WEB SITE.THANK YA'LL SO MUCH,THIS MEANS ALOT TO A TRUE CAJUN GIRL LIKE MYSELF. ONCE AGAIN THANK YA'LL...... BRIDGET {BERTRAND} DEHART

This site is fabulous! I enjoyed reading all the recipes. When I get my thoughts together I'll be sending in one or two of my own. The pictures are great. I especially liked the recipe for boudin. Bye the way how do you make cracklins? Ms. Anne

Mais,I got to say I love this. Found some delicious recipes that I could share with my family. Most important thing in Cajun's life is family, friends and good homecooking.My favorite pasttime is getting together with my family and cooking.

My partner is just trying a veggie version of chicken etouffee. We both love cajun food and are well impressed with this site. Keep up the good work. :-)

These recipes bring back memories, yeah!

i too am a displaced la. native half cajun (thibodeaux mom )& 1/2 irish as is my hubby (ardeneaux mom )my husband and i really enjoy the site n love finding different food from home as fla seafood just isnt the same thanks for keeping the heritage alive might i suggest to any one interested barnes and nobles carries an excellent book & cd set on learning the language by rev msgr jules o'daigle lets keep the language of our people alive as well if we can heres to the cajun people may we live on in the hearts and mines of OUR ancestors as our forfathers did in ours god bless ya'll

I have family in Alabama and unfortunately don't make it down there enough. I love everything about it, especially the food! These recipes are great for when I'm really missing it! Made the shrimp gumbo this week and got raves!

Thank you for the wonderful recipes. My friends can't get enough of my jambalaya or my gumbo. I just have an affinity for cooking Cajun food and I've gotten many friends interested in it too. What the heck is a Finlander from Minnesota doing cooking Cajun? No one questions it or seems to mind:)

I do enjoy some down home recipes I have sent your site to family in Japan so they can enjoy also, some good eats, Thankyou for having a Good site for us Cajuns... I will let others KNOW... Jackie

I'am would really like to have some good cajun stew recipes. It seem's so hard to fine them.But i really think if anyone can help me it would be maw and maw. Thank you Rodney

I, of course, a real cajun myself, but I visit this site often, and I love learning new ways of cooking, of course there is a lot of my own way of cooking,I like other cajun recipes also. This is a great site, Thank you!

i just love your recipe book. it's about time we have some real food in print. i was so surprised and excited to see it. i can't wait to get one for myself and 2 daughters for gifts. thank you

I just wanted y'all to know you aren't the only Cajuns alive. I am from a little town here in Ks. that was settled by Cajuns from Canada. My greatgrand parents came to Rice Lake, Wisconsin first then on to Ks. My grandparents had a family of ten, of which only one is still alive. At my grandmothers funeral it was attended by 54 grand children and 57 great grandchildren, so you can see we are alive and kicking, us Cajuns here in NorthWest Ks. I like your site and will be trying out some of the receipes.

This is one of the best websites i have ever been to in my entire life. It will keep me in the kitchen alot. I wish you all carried dvd's. This is how many stars im giving you *****

Love your site and all the wonderful recipes. Thanks

THANK GOODNESS i FOUND YOUR SITE !! mY HUSBAND AND i love cAJUN FOOD !!!

Enjoy checking the recipes. Can usually find the one I want.

Hello maw maw, it's me again. I think it would be better for some people if they saw people cooking the recipes and explaining them on dvd, so that other people will understand them. But what I don't understand, I'll just get my wife to explain it for me. And I can't thank you enough maw maw for this wonderful website, Thanks!

This is the best site i have found and the recipes or the best,i have sent it to others in different states,keep up the good work

Just want to let you know that is the best recipe website i have gone on. I have found a lot of the older recipes like my mom used to make. I have really enjoyed this site. Thanks,

We recently visited Baton Rouge and ate Brunets. Loved it! Since then, I have searched Cajun recipes and yours is the best. I made the Shrimp Etoufee and my family loved it, as well. Thanks for such a wonderful site.

Hey Ruby (MawMaw) Love your website and loved talking to you the other night. Can't wait for our visit next month. Sitting here drinking my community coffee (decaf.) reading through the website and the other posts on the guestbook. I am so glad you mentioned it too me. Keep up the good work. Tell Christina I said Hi. Cajun Hugs from Amelia

i love cooking with recipes i found on this site thank you.

My great aunt and uncle were Andrew and Eunice Baudoin, they lived on E.8th St in Kaplan. Uncle Andrew ran a small rice mill for many years and they both did upholstery for the area. They had a daughter who lived with them, Lillian who was crippled by Polio. Taunte Une was a fantastic cook and I remember spending many summers shucking corn and cutting it off the cob to make maquesho. My cousin Ted Marceaux helped. I love Kaplan and am so glad to have found this site! Thanks for all the wonderful recipies that bring back so many happy memories. BTW my best friend was Rexine Hanks (her dad was mayor at the time). If any of yall read this please let me know how you are at: [email protected]. Thanks again for the fantastic site and delicious recipies!

Your recipes are great, but your website pops up too many ads and is a real pain to go through.

MB, we'd neverrrrr have pop-ups. You are most definitely infected with spyware. Consider getting your computer cleaned by a professional.

I go to this site quite often whenever I get time to cook. Have tried several recipes and enjoyed them. I think it is great that your veiwers share their old family receipes with us. the tradition of cajun cooking is really big in this part of Texas.

My parents where from New Orleans, I would love a recipie of Apple pie and I love to bake and breads and lots of cajun foods but mostly bread and pie,Apple if can

I MARRIED AND DIVORCED SOMEONE FROM KAPLAN. I WORK AT A SCHOOL CATERFIA AND I WAS NEEDING A RECIPE FOR PORK JAMBALAYA. I LIKE THE WAY THAT YOU CAN INCREASE THE SERVING COUNT. I NEEDED THE RECIPE TO BE INCREASED TO 200 SERVING. BECAUSE OF YOUR WEB-SITE, I WAS ABLE TO MAKE 200 COUNT SERVING. AGAIN THANKS. I WILL BE MAKING THIS MEAL ON TUESDAY OF THIS WEEK AT SCHOOL.

this looks like a great cajun recipe site. My maw maw tought me a lot about cajun cooking. But she went up to heaven some years ago. I still need a place to go when I need help or have questions. Merci for being here to help all of us.

From Kaplan, but have lived in Georgia 20 years now. It is so great to be able to eat these dishes again. Thank you all for the recipes.

Have a Great Thanksgiving.

Your site is a wonderful,authentic, and nostalgic source of original Cajun recipes that many of us have grown up with. Reading them brings back such great memories of my grandmother and her sisters working tirelessly preparing these delicious foods over hot stoves in unairconditoned kitchens. Oh, what great cooks they were! Thank you for sharing these treasured recipes with us!

I love Cajun and Creole cooking and can only get it from a friend who lives here who was raised in Marksville La. Thanks so much for the website, it sure lets me make the food I have grown to love. By the way, Beaudin is another of my favorites. I am of French Canadian heritage.

This is my go-to website whenever I need a recipe to wow my friends and family. I have never been disappointed, and I always receive great compliments. A lot of the recipes remind me of my Mawmaw, and the food we used to eat. Now, I'm trying to start new holiday traditions. Thanks to y'all for providing such a great website!

I married a military man from Wisconsin.He is out now and we moved to his home in Wisconsin, so this website is a blessing for me. I am homesick sometimes but thanks to y'all and y'alls links I can make & find some of my favorites from home!Thank you and God Bless! Happy New Year!

good site

I am really HAPPY to see this site! I moved 2 Chattanooga,TN. after I lost everything in Lakeshore Ms.(1/2mile north of Bay St.Louis) My Mother & Grandma are from Turkey Creek & Ville Platte.I like to have never got used to the food up here cause it jus aint right! Well it'll be gettin right NOW Thanks soooo much! I will enjoy this site on a regual basis.This way I can tell my friends to follow some of these recipes instead of me sayin a dab of this and a pinch of that.

Love this site! My husband grew up in Bridge City,TX and we lived both there and Sulphur,LA together. So many recipes here remind me of those times with his family. All the great food. No one makes gumbo like Grandpa Toups! Thanks!

Great web site!!

I am a REAL CAJUN girl and I LOVE THIS SITE! If I don't already have these family recipes, I can complete my book here.

I like to kick-it-up-knotch. I like hot & spicy foods

I love your website.It's easy to use and I have gotten some good recipes that my family really likes keep up the good work..

I love cajun food Im sooo glad i found this web site. I can get more recipes. I have an Uncle and we love to cook differnt things and he is the one who got me in to Cajun food i'm a spicey gal..Thanks Robbin

Your site was recommended to me by Greg and Dawn. It is great.

My birth: Marrero, Louisiana I like your site!

I love the Southern Recipes. I have tried a few and just think that they are great.

Love the recipes. My favourite food is Cajun. Love the Flavour Hi to Boo

I think the web site is amazing. They have a lot of really great recipes.

My father (Matthias Ortiz Pasqual) grew up in the Buoys of New Orleans, caught crawfish, shrimp, crocodiles, snakes and learn how to eat them... He had a recipe for all of these... I like to capture back some of those recipes... It sounds like the kinds of recipes my Daddy used to make. We lost a lot of our recipes from my Daddy, through moving; lost storage containers and Typhoons on the Island of Guam... God Bless...

I just want to let you all know how excited I was when I discovered this website. I am originally from Louisiana but now live in Missouri with my wonderful husband and the one thing i did not want was to loose my heritage and the cooking of all the wonderful foods i grew up with for my parents are from Abbeville and New Iberia and are truely cajun and brought us up on what i call "real cajun food" and this site has truely done that and lives up to its name. I was so amaized by the recipes that my mom use to smell our home with and there were no recipes that were written down , just in her memeory from her childhood and passed to us. Now i have a site and cookbook that i can now introduce to my family and friends here. Thank You so much from the bottom of my CAJUN HEART.

GREAT web site. Born in Cutoff,LA now live in Hammond, LA

Help me find someone? I am trying to reach a friend of ours, Chef James McElroy. He was in Many, Louisana at the country club when we last saw him. The web takes me to your site for his recipes. Can you tell me how to reach him?

real good recipes love your web site

Thanks for the help.I just recently married a cajun and need all the help I can get to compete with his MAMAS' cooking.

When we evacuated from Hurrican Rita I did not even think about mine and my Mama's cherished recipes. Well--Our home and everyone I knew lost their home and all of our precious recipes. Well except for two ladies that I know of who brought everyone of their's out. I found, by accident, your website and nearly fell out of my chair. There among all of the wonderful recipes were many of the same recipes I had lost. I have been trying to spread the word to let everyone know where they can connect with these old favorites. There's nothing like Cajun Comfort Food. God Bless you all...

moved to covington from scott 25 years ago and still miss acadiana. one of the things i miss most are the butcher shops. used to enjoy walking into one of the local places and ordering meat cut anyway i wanted it.

Hey! Im a repeat visitor and have entered some recipes to your site and hope everyone enjoy's them. Im originally from Abbeville but over the years have moved around from Baton Rouge to Greensboro, North Carolina and back in Lafayette. Ive truly enjoyed the site and referring back and forth to recipes I remember eating as a child growing up in Southwest Louisiana. Its always good to come back home to Cajun Country. Thanks and great job on the website.

Just returned from week in Jeff-Davis Parish with Berryton UM Church. Our VIM team of 18 were treated to DELICIOUS Cajun foods by Lake Arthur UMW ladies. Hospitality made us feel just like home,too. VIM team is planning a "Cajun Tasting" for our Church congregation, so I'm after recipes of the delicious foods we were fed by Christian Holiness Camp Ground hostess/manager and Lake Arthur UMW.(Got to give fellows there credit, too as menfolk were at dinners each eve.)

I just read the note from Marlyn, she is right in what she said. I am from Jennings,La. I have kin folks that live in and around Lake Arthur. I just cooked a Chicken and Sausage Gumbo for our Wednesday Night Dinner, we served 120 people that night,served over hot steamed rice, we also served steamed corn on the cob, garlic buttered French bread, good old fashion bread puddin with hot lemon sauce, salad, drink. Not bad for the price of $4.00 per person!! First United Methodist Church Sugar Land , Texas

I love to cook cajun food , I love to eat it more. I am a cook who learned to love and cook good cajun food when I lived in Orange TX.This is very wonderful and complete recipe site. The other kinks are good too. Since I live in Tennessee now Cajun ingriedients are hard to find. It's nice to jnow I can find what i need on line.

I absolutely love this site! My mom grew up in New Orleans & we spent many a wonderful summer exploring the Big Easy! Cooking is my passion and, unfortunately, I don't have any of my grandmother's recipes. This site is really fun, informative and, uh, probably fattening!!!

I just got introduced to your fantastic site by my sister-in-law, Audrey. I can hardly wait to try your recipes. Thanks Ruby.

I am very excited to try some of these recipes. Sioux City is actually the sister city to Lake Charles LA and I am in charge of a bowling tournament with a Mardi Gras/Cajun theme and will be making Gumbo and shrimp etoufee. I am also ordering your cookbook.

i love cajun food and your recipes are the greatest.

love your recipes

I moved out of the house and didn't bring any Louisiana cookbooks with me. I was very pleased when I found your website with so many wonderful recipes. Thank you SOOO much.

I absolutely LOVE these recipes. My grandparents are from french cajun heritage and they are planning a wedding to re-new their vows. These recipes have made planning for the wedding so much more easier. My grandfather is so happy that he can put his heritage into something that means so much to him. I've love watching him smile everytime we talk about the food. Thanks so much for everything.

Real nice site, enjoy it very much

The flavours of the food in the recipes are fantastic, Hot and Spicey. Yummy

I was doing a web search and ran across your website, realcajunrecipes.com. Being a cajun and owner of True Cajun, Inc (www.truecajun.com), and True Cajun Bayou Blend Seasonings and True Cajun Seafood Boil, I can say without any doubt, "you have a great website and great recipes" and with your authentic cajun recipes, you all would never have any problem incorporating them in a "Resturant Menu", no matter where you are. I commend all of you involved at realcajun.com for a job well done in promoting the cajun culture with your outstanding recipes. Kaplan Louisiana one of my favorite places in Louisiana truly has some remarkable cajun cooking going on in that town. I know you great people will pass on to the next generations, some of the finest eating enjoyment possible. I am, Sincerely, Your True Cajun Friend, Teddy Broussard, Grand Chenier, Louisiana 70643

I FIND THE BEST, COMPLETE RECIPES ON THIS SITE. I LOVE IT.

I was raised in New Orleans, lived in the Bayous and have moved away. I was taught many different cajun and creole dishes, but never by using a recipe. I have starved myself long enough for the flavor that I grew up with. And with this site I will be returning home as least my taste buds will be. Kim M

I was an air force brat. Moved various places. Met and married my husband, whom had also traveled a lot. Have experience many ethnic foods. Cajun is my favorite. I have switched from our family's Arkansas red beans and rice recipe to my husband's family recipe (cajun) of red beans and rice.

Recently visited Lafayette LA and loved everything. Ate at the Blue Dog and had the seafood platter. There was this wonderful puff pastry filled with heaven which I am trying to find out what it is. Can somebody help?

I love this site....every recipe that I have tried was just like my momma's and granny's dishes as I remember them..and thats saying alot since they are both from Breaux Bridge..cajun country!!! I will always continue to browse and cook from here!!! THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES KAREN

I absolutely love your sight! it is filled with the most mouth-watering recipes.

I love this food, a dream come true thanks.

This is perhaps, the best sight I have found. I just keep coming back. thanks

I lived in Cajun Country for 2 yrs. Love your recipes & website. Thanks! Makin' crawfish ettouffee tonight!

Hi, I spent a couple of weeks camping in LA about 10 years ago. Loved the food, the people, the history, and the atmosphere. I stayed in small towns to get the real flavor of the area. I plan to return someday. Lorretta

I LOVE THIS SITE! YOU HAVE SO MANY RECIPES THAT I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR. THANK YOU!

I just happened onto this site by accident looking for boudin recipes ... I think this will become a site I use alot THANK YOU

A friend introduced me to this website, and since then i have tried several recipes.All good dishes!!

Love Cajun food but can no longer eat fish (iodine allergy) Any suggestions? Also how do you play bouree -

Ifeel like in a past life i must have been from new orleans though ive never been there i love the food music culture and GO L.S.U. Thanks very much for this page Joe....

no need for a recipe box in my kichen with this site.

Takes me back to annual Good Friday cookouts at the family camp on Pecan Island...boiled crawfish, garfish patties, crawfish bisque, all the trimmings. NO recipe book can compare. I have been looking high and low for the recipes that I thought were long gone...THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, to all of the Maw-Maws, Paw-Paws, Pi's, Taunts, etc, for passing on your family secrets that a lot of us have been looking for!!!

Just 'lookin and scrolling' at this site, made me both 'hungry and homesick' for my mother-land..LA

great site

I have thoroughly enjoyed your site. all the recipes on your site are a real treat,never mind the adventure you take when you cook them up. Thank you.

I just wanted to thank you guys for working so hard on this website. I fell in love with Acadiana and the Cajun culture when I attened USL. My best friend is Cajun. His family lives in Crowley,La. I loved the area so much that I got married in Crowley to my Dutch husband. I am now living in Amsterdam,the Netherlands. Thanks so much for giving me (us) a slice of home. Keep up the good work.

I love the recipes you have: I lived in Baton Rough as a youngster and am so fascinated with the food. Cant wait to try some of these recipes!!!!

Great Site You a truly a real cajun site. All of the recipes I've tried from site are 5 star. My family and friends just rave about the food. THANK YOU

I've tried a few recipes on your site and they are very good,thanks for the great recipes.

Every recipe in the collection is like visiting my granny in Breaux Bridge years ago...familiar, and enjoying some great meals!!!!!Thanks for a great cookbook!!!

Love the recipes. I collect cookbooks and have enoyed many of the recipes you have on your site. Thanks

had to say thanks for haveing this site , see now that my mom is gone up above i don't have her to call and ask hey mom how much of do i put in , or do i cover it first or at the end .i miss all the things that i depended on her and did not even know untill that person is gone. but thank you , your recipes are the closest that has come to my mom's cooking .glad i found your site.god bless....

bon-dieux....live in okla. now...since '75....ya'll makin' me hungry...

This is a great Website. I lived in Lockport, Raceland, and Mat-Chews for 12 years and even went so far as to marry a man named Chouest. (Had to divorce that rascal) but love the Cajuns anyway!!!

im from texas but i grew up in la and i love cajun food and my late husband was from creole la and our children were born in la sherry venable

I am currently working at a New Orleans style establishment and searching your Website has been very helpful, thanks and keep up the great work.

TRIED THE BACON WRAP DUCK. TALK ABOUT GOOD!!! MOM AND DAD WERE BORN IN KAPLAN LA. THEY ARE FULL BLOODED COONIE'S. ME, I WAS BORN IN TX. I CALL MYSELF "SWAMP IRISH". I'LL AD SOME OF MY RECIPES TOO. GREAT SITE.

Every recipe I have tried is wonderful. thanks for keeping it authenically cajun

I have been visiting this site since 2003, while a student in Culinary Arts school. I can't begin to share all of the wonderful recipes I've found on this site. Tried quite a lot and loved them all. I've also shared the site with friends and family in other states and the feed back I get is awesome.

Great Receipes

Gonna make ne some gumbo yea!

GREAT website and recipes. I come here daily for dinner recipes. The family loves them!! Keep up the good work!!

I lived in the south for 17 years, to include Slidell, LA for 2 1/2 yrs. I love the Cajun culture and food. This is a great site...love it, cher!

I dont do too much of a cooking, but my wife loves the kitchen. She had a Catering business and are always looking to improve on her great cooking skills.

loved josephine's gumbo keep up the great recipes.

Wife and I had Smitty Lange's Crawfish Etouffee IV last night (it was left in the fridge overnight before we ate it) and we both agreed it was the best ever.

What a great site....authentic cajun recipies at last! If you can't find a dish you like....something's wrong with your tastebuds!!!

The recipes I've used from here are real good and I've injoyed them

Reminds me of home Abbeville, La

I found this site by accident. What a wonderful surprise. The recipes remind me of home (Gueydan, LA). Thanks!!

I found your site when hunting for recipes and I am so glad I did. I really enjoy it.

Great recipes. It is really nice to type in boudain in the search block and actually get a recipe. If any of yall are ever passing through Port Arthur,Tx make sure you go to Nicks Grocery on 39th St. They make so much boudain there you smell it when you get out of the car. Their crawfish boudain is awesome. Again great site keep up the good work.

Great web site!!!

I enjoy your web page, it really is true cajun cooking, this is the kind of cooking I was raised on and this is the kind of cooking I am raising my children and grandchildren on. Keep the recipes coming. I have some great ones of my own I would like to share from generations back.

I grew up on the Texas-Lousiana border and moved to north Idaho about 12 years ago. My mother and sister have since followed and we have spent years talking about how much we miss cajun cooking...nothing up here can even come close! This year I came across your website and we were elated! Not only did we make boudin, but we also ordered a Turducken for Thanksgiving. What a wonderful cajun Turkey day we had! We were not only able to enjoy wonderful memories from our past, but we were able to share it with all of our northern family members. After making 25lbs of boudin, which turned out WONDERFUL, we only ended up with a few links each...everyone wanted some! Thank You so much for giving us a site that we can turn to for true cajun ecipes. Boudin became such a hit that I'm sure making it will become our new hobby...we have to meet the demands! We hope yall have a safe and Merry Christmas! PS Next year we are going to make our own Turducken !

Born in Houma, La in 1942. My Dad was doing off shore oil work is why my parents were in Houma. They were from DeQuincy and Reeves.

I love cookin'. I love eatin' more. So from yur great site chere, I be a boilin' me some craw daddy's, which I might add ain't easy to find in these here parts, and makin' my kin some dishes that'll sure to pleez even thar finnuky pallets. And I ain't gonna tell 'em thare eatin' gator til the last dish be washed. Luv ya Maw, Cy

My folks are from Ville Platte & Jennings, but I consider myself one of many coon---'s. All I ever cook is Cajun foods. That is the only kind there is!!!!!! I've learned to use a computer and I found ya'll, and I am sooo, glad. Winnie, Texas Murlene

living in northeast alabama, it's impossible to find real cajun food, so my daughter and son have opened a small resturant in Fyffe,Al. where we hope to serve Cajun a couple of nights a week. thank for this site.

Love the website. I tried the crawfish rice dressing for Thanksgiving and substituted ground vinison for the ground meat in the recipe.. It was wonderful.. everyone loved it. Today I tried the Sweet Dough Tarts and they are good too. Just like MomMom Edolia Gaspard Perry from Kaplan. I used apple, pineapple, fig and peach for the fillings. Very good!

Great website & even better recipes. Just like the website says,this is real cajun recipes. Thanks for the great food...

We really enjoy trying your recipes.This is one of our favorite websites.Have a Merry Christmas and Safe and Happy New YEar!

I have making bread for 25 years. In all those years I have searched for a recipe for yeast rolls that were served in school lunch rooms years ago. I tried your "Linda's Fresh School House Rolls", and they are very close. I will be making them for Christmas and giving them to neighbors for their Christmas dinners. Thank you, and Merry Christmas

It is great to have all of my favorite recipes in one place...thanks for the great site!

Wonderful site!!! Thanks so much!!!

I truly love this site. I have cooked for the last 40 years and am always looking for true cajun recipes. As everyone knows we just add a little of this and a little of that, without writing things down. Thanks for doing it for me. I would recommed the site to young and "seasoned" cooks alike.Please keep it going.

This is one of the best sites I have found for true cajun recipes. Being displaced fron the deep south it kinda lets me go back home without all the travel

I recently married a "cajun" born and raised in New Orleans!! Thought maybe I could get a good recipe on my own and try it on him for a change!!! They all sound absolutely delicious!

Great site! My parents are from Avoyelles Parish, the Plaucheville area, then when I grew up I married a Coonass from the same place. There's no place in the world like Plaucheville!

I am from Napoleonville La. but i live in sylacauga Al. now. I visit the site to get some good ole home cooking recipies. No food like it in the world it is the best.

Moved to New Orleans in 1987, and just completely fell in love with the culture and especially the food.I've picked up on a lot, but now, just enjoying what I know and these recipes from the book..Its been a life saver on more than one account, especially during the holidays..Awaiting patiently for the time for me to get back to my home,(NO), but until,,,lets keep on cooking!!!!!!! GO SAINTS.....

Just wanted to drop a few lines to say hello to you Aunt Ruby and Christina and hope ya'll are doing ok. Haven't seen ya'll since the birthday party for Maw-Maw in '06. Heard Chad got another promotion!! I am getting remarried sometime this summer (2008) but don't have an exact date yet. Hope to see ya'll again sometime soon. Love ya'll!

Awsome yo. I got some good recipes and signed up for the newsletters.

Great website. Ive always been a fan of Loisiana.

this is an excellent site, i recommened to all my friends

wow! 5 lbs. that's funny lol

ME AND FAMILY LOVE GOOD EATING AND I LOVE TO EAT CAJUN AND CREOLE COOKING.I ALSO LOVE TO COOK THIS STYLE FOODS. I HAVE A FEW DISHES THAT I ALREADY COOK BUT I'M TRYING TO EXPAND MY RECIPE LIST. I'VE ENJOYED YOUR WEB SITE AND ABOUT TO TRY A COUPLE OF THE RECIPES. I'M GONNA TRY THE BAYOU BOUNTY CASEROLE AND THE CREAMY CRAWFISH SAUCE PLACED OVER PAN FRIED TALAPIA SOAKED IN MILK AND BATTERED WITH FLOUR SEASONED WITH MY FAVORITE SPICES. SERVED WITH FRENCH BREAD ON THE SIDE

After graduating from LSU last year, I decided to move to Rhode Island. The first time I went home to visit, I flew back to RI with 5 lbs of Lejeune's sausage, 5 lbs of boudin, and my cast iron pot. Airport security wasn't amused, but I everything made it back with me!

My dad showed me this site

I found this website while looking for a King's Bread recipe and found a wealth of other recipes I can't wait to try!

I just found this site this morning while I was looking for cracklin recipes.I not only found what I was looking for here but a mess of other recipes I can't wait to give a stir.Thank you for having such a wonderful site to add to my collection.Keep the good food comin'.:)

Wonderful recipes!

Found this site before Christmas. Really do like it. Plan on using it frequently.

I used one of the recipes from your site to make my first gumbo. My gumbo was AWESOME! Thanks for the recipes.

Great site, keep up the great work. Thanks again.

I love this site. I grew up on this wonderful cuisine. All my relatives live in Miss. and La. Every summer as a child I spent eating Gumbos, Ettoufees, shrimp, and crabs cooked in so many different ways imaginable. We would catch our own crabs and fish. It was a great life. It still is!

Since I moved home I miss the flavors of some dishes - glad to have found this site - and have been cravin some craw fish terrible

lived in Louisiana 15yrs, now in Virginia and had both my children in Eunice Louisiana

Just found your site....love it! Will be returning!!! It is great to look at all the recipes......

This website is AWESOME

I am so glad to see that someone has taken the initiative to preserve what is truly a unique culture. I currently reside in the Houston, TX area and miss my Louisiana roots, and food, terribly. Thank you for your efforts and God Bless.

From a former 'transplant' who lived in Lake Charles for several years-- Love your site! I am now the "go-to" girl for all things Mardi Gras and Cajun for my friends and co-workers here in OK and your site has been very helpful and informative for us all. Laissez les Bons Temps Roulez, mi Cher! Cin =)

Beautiful site! I lived in Lafayette for 7 years but returned home to the Bavarian Village of Leavenworth, Washington. I miss the culture and how genuine people really were. I was smiling as I was reading thru the recipes.

Thanks so much for this site. I just found it looking for a lost bread recipe, lol!!1 I was raised in Louisiana, and my MawMaw was a true Dictionary.com cajun, lol. I never learned to cook the foods I was raised on and am so blesssed to find this site! Again, thanks so much!!

As a relocated cajun (22yrs. in lafayette) now in Dallas, Tx. I love your website. I just went to Ville Platte for a funeral and within hours of being there, my accent was back. And i already miss the small town hospitality. I didn't attend the parades for Mardi Gras, but seeing family is way better than any beads. I turned my wife on to real boudin from Don's seafood market in Carencro and she had to take home a 5lbs frozen box of it. thanks for the recipes it brings family closer to me when they can not be around.

Love your site! It would se scary to see how many crawfish i could eat at one time!

My husband and I were living in New Orleans for over two years, and just recently moved back to New Jersey. We've been missing the food tremendously...that is, until I found this website! It's been so much fun, using these recipes, and trying to bring one of our favorite parts of New Orleans back up with us to the frozen north!

LOVE the food and comments. America needs more !!!!!!!!

Grew up just north of New Orleans and have really missed the food since moving to North Carolina. Love the recipes.

I love this site because it reminds me of the foods my mother cooked. Each time I get hungry for something she used to cook I come to this site. Keep up the good work.

RThis site is amazing... I found it on accident and I absolutely love it!! :)

What a FANTASTIC website!! Well Done!!! Thank you for such an Incredible Resource!! I was born and raised on Long Island in New york, But I do love Cajun food. It's really tough to find "Real" Cajun food on the Island. I completely understand what you mean about Misrepresented and misunderstood. Most people round here think "Cajun" means any food that is absurdly hot. Most people round here also think they know what Barbecue is...'Frid not!! What is done around here is Grilling...BBQ takes the better part of a Day...SLOOOOOW and LOOOOOW(heat). Thanks again!! GRRRRRRRREAT Website!!

I printed out your "Recipe List" to have dinner ideas...Thanks, Y'all gave me some great ideas of things to do with all the crabs we catch!!! Merce! Angie

It's me again. I think I'm gonna order a few cook books for gifts to my married daughters & one of their mothers-in-law from Scotland who LOVES cajun food. Thanks for saving me lots of writing down recipes..If only those girls would have paid attention!!! Sincerely, Angie/Mom-Maw

Just wanted to say, I was looking for something for Marti Gras and stumbled onto this site. Tons of cool recipes. Thankyou.

Great website. Lots of recipes.

enjoyed this site!

i love this site!!!! my friends here in florida are loving a taste of cajun cookin. something you cannot get here in florida. it also reminds me alot of home.

This is terrific. Born in New Orleans,LIved in Chalmette, was evacuated to Arizona,now in Amite cooking Cajun. Thanks.

I lived in columbia,Miss.for 7 yrs and loved the cultures and food there.Ty,4 bringing my heart and palett home again.Ya'll TC.

Love the recipes i have already tied.

Great website. I Love Cajun food, unfortuatly am not such a good cook. I'm going to try a couple. Thanks for the recipies!!!

I came across your website while looking for a recipe to make boudin. My family and I are transplanted Cajuns from Lafayette, Louisiana living in Grand Junciton, Colorado. It warmed my heart to find your website. It made me a little less homesick. It seems that Cajuns seem to find each other when they are away from the Mother-Land and that has happened here. Last year, on Good Friday, we flew in live crawfish and had a huge boil for all of our friends, Cajun and not. Everyone had a blast. Now our friends, originally from Thibodaux, are returning the favor and hosting their own crawfish boil this year. With only a few days away, our mouths are watering. As one of my daughters put it, "Mama, I want to go back to Louisiana to go to college because I want to meet and marry a Cajun man and continue my french last name." I couldn't have hoped for better. Happy Easter Cher!

I came across your web site while looking for a recipe for Garfish. I realy enjoyed reading it. My wife is Thai and she enjoys cooking and eating Cajun food. While looking at your Q/A section I saw the one about bee stings. That is also what my grandparents used where I grew up in Southern Illinois down in Little Egypt.

I see some real coonass's here and some wannabes! Most of this stuff is not real cajun! Sorry just my opinion!

Big Daddy, The Boudreauxs and Thibodeauxs of the world seem to be pleased with the authenticity of the recipes on this site. If you are Cajun, do you have some recipes to share along with your opinion? Kthxbai!

My husband and I have spent many a good time in New Orleans and other small cities and towns in "Cajun' Country". We love cajun food and decided to host a Cajun dinner party for friends. We travel some in our motorhome, so we bought and froze some Boudin and Andouille sausage. Great web site to for recipes, but also wonderful for planning the menu. I'll be a frequent visitor!

I couldnt tell you what was authentic or not but from what i've read it all sounds good to me. I love cajun food and I cant wait to start tryin' some of these recipes out! Thanks!

Hi,I moved here from Scotland 3 years ago after marrying a local. I love Cajun food and I'm learning how to cook it. My Gumbos are pratty good if I say so myself and last night I cooked a shrimp stew.....my husbands verdict....Babe this is really good. The recipes on here will help me keep up the good work.

I just love good ole cajun/creole food but in Dallas they think Dirty Rice is rice with brown gravy I don't think so. Today I am making some good ole down home bayou dirty rice. Talk to you later shey.

I moved to Savannah, Georgia after Hurricane Katrina and miss the food dearly! Thank god for this website with real recipes from back home!

I moved to Alaska from Slaughter, Louisiana. Now I have a column in our hometown paper called "The Cajun Queen", bringing recipe's to the north. While in Gonzales, La., I won the Jambalaya contest two times and retired as the "Cajun Queen", this is how my column started. I was working as an OR nurse at Gonzales Hospital.

What a surprise to find this cookbook on line this morning. I ws looking for a roast beef recipe for a slow cooker. I just got off a 12 hour shift and feel like waking up to a good smell this afternoon. I used to live in Kaplan 20+ years ago. I picked a recipe by a Alberta Bert LeBlanc (from Kaplan). I used to work in Kaplan with an Alberta, could it possibly be the same person??? Anyway, I've got to go and get the pot roast on. Thanks for this guestbook section...it was a blast from the past for me! Ann Creston, Nebraska

I was looking for a boudin ball recipe and happened upon your site. I'd just like to say that I think this is one of the finest sites I've ever visited and that I will be returning to it again. I have lived many places out west, but I am originally from here and I was amazed at how many restaurants bastardize great cajun food and try to pass it off as "real, authentic cajun cuisine". You can't just coat something in cayenne, burn it and call it an authentic blackened dish. Keep up the fantastic work and WELCOME HOME!!!!!

Your recipes are very delicious and entertaining for a small group or large. I like the fact that recipes can be adjusted. I cook large amounts up to 250. Is it possible to have the ingredients scaled by using pounds instead of single items i.e., 100 chicken breasts / 30#'s ect...? I reference Real Cajun often lol.

a excellent website. tried the sweet tart recipe and made tea cakes out of the dough. they were very good.

I just happen to stumble upon your website looking for a a recipe for boudin balls. I must say that i am very impress and amazed at all the recipes, from A to Z WOW!!!!!!

This is one of the best cajun recipe website I have ever visited. 99% of the time I find just the recipe I was looking for. Thanks for the good job.

Love the recipes

i have made many of your recipes. the popeyes fried chicken biscuit copy cat recipe is great. i've made them many, many times. i try at least three new recipes a week. i love to cook. linda

I think that your web site is great ... Please keep up the great work ... Best regards Petra

Original from Delcambre, La. Thanks for the real flavor of home.

Hi there Ms Ruby..... Boy, it's been ages since I've been to the site, but this morning a Cajun newsletter group I belong to asked for some info & one of the members directed them to real Cajun recipes..So I had to make a pass, ya know. Sure has grown since I last read comments. Impressed to see some of my old recipes have been hit on so much, hope someone has found joy & good eating from using them! Looking forward to hearing from you again. Take care. Love ya, Bert

good recipes to choose from. thank you

these are some of the most original true cajun recipes I have ever seen on a web site. They take me back to being a lil- girl in the kitchen with my mamaw Ella Roach. Keep up the good work .

I love your recipes. I have tried several. Although I am from the north, I have visited your state several times and luv that CAJUN Food.

there are two recipes that i will attempt: shrimp stew and alligator sauce picant... i'll let you know how there turn out. thank you

This is really a great receipe web site.I wish you would come out with another cookbook.

Love to cook, and love your site. It has been a great help. Your site was a great help in adjusting my recipe for 100 servings of jambalaya as I am asked to cook for company functions. Thanks

I love Cajun food and cook it when I find recipes of interest. This maybe "by the wayside" but gonna ask if any lady ONLY ladies would care to email me once in awhile?i declare i was born and raised living there in another life plus in yet another rode a covered wagon so ...hope to hear from some of you ladies .

Just had to say thanks for the site. My husband is a born and bred cajun fom Metairie and this has helped me to bring a taste of home to him & to show our children their heritage.

Love this site! My father was born in 1926 and raised in Catahoula. Needless to say; all we knew was Cajun food until we were teens. Daughters do not have time to stand over stove with me and learn the recipes. Will definitely purchase cookbooks.

Luv the site,I grew up in Kinder,my husband from Oberlin, we both know the old southern way of cooking things, and I gotta tell you, these recipes are true and accurate. Sometimes they hel me add an ingredient or two that i may have forgotten. I Luv them all!

really like the recipes. Love that Cajun food

Don't get no betta then this friends!!Keep up the great site!!

I've lived in AL for about 20 years now, and I have never stopped missing home. Cooking makes me less homesick. I love your site!

Thank you very much, this has been an extremely useful site!!I am origionally from MO. I just married on july 5, 2008 to a cajun and he is in great need off home cajun cookin! so slowly but surely i'm learnin and getting better! THANK YOU TONS!!

Hello dare, I am not a true born Cajun, but I love the Cajun culture (especially the food) and go to Cajun Country every vaction I get. I have been cooking Cajun food for about ten years and consider myself a Certified Coon Ass. I had lost my Courtbouillion recipe from Paw Paw's while living in California for a while. I used to travel from Texas City to Lake Charles just to eat at Paw Paw's for lunch or dinner. Thanks Sara for providing it to me again. Thanks again for a great website.

I've been in Dallas for over 20 years and I don't get home often enough. I miss all of the good food down there so the recipes that are posted here helps keep me connected.

Hi! It sure is a Blessing to have this website to fill in the void of the Cajun cooking we so miss up here! Got some delicious recipes, yeah! Thank you for being there :) Gotta have dem Boudin Balls an Shrimp Dip, you know! God Bless!!

I love coming here and seeing how much my family's cook books match yours. I'm born and raised Cajun and these recipes are keeping our ways alive.

I sure miss getting boudin from JR's grocery in Pine Prairie, La. Love cooking jambalaya every chance I get. Thanks for the recipes.

Was great to find your site! I lost the family recipes to Rita - found you when I was looking for "stuffed breads" recipe. It's so great you're keeping our culture alive and growing. Thanks

I GREW UP IN GUEYDAN MY DAUGTHER ASK ME FOR THE RECIPE FOR THE FIG PIES MY GRANDMOTHER MAD E FROM HER MINE. I HAVE MADE IT I MILLION TIME WITH HER. NOW I HAVE THE RECIPE . THANK YOU SO MUCH CHRISTINA MEAUX SMITH

I am a transplant from california, I have lived in mamou for 8 yrs.now and I do love it. I am glad I found this site. I love to cook, so this is great for me, and I get to learn more about the surrounding I have chosen to live in. thank you for this site. rose

Love the website. Excellent. I recently (July) launched a Cajun recipe, blog, stories, and glossary website in memory of my late wife who died in 2005. We have over 600 recipes collected over 30 years from friends, families, restaurants, etc and would love for us to mutually link to each other's sites if you approve. Our website is www.cajuntoday.com. Please check it out and let me know what you think. Merci, and best wishes to you and yours. John

I REALLY LIKE THE OLD FASHION WAYS OF SOME RECIPES THANKS

I ENJOYED GARY KOINM'S DIRTY RICE RECIPE. IT IS ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO RUN INTO HIM. HE IS A CHARACTER AS VARIED AND INTERESTING AS HIS CULINARY PROWESS! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GARY!

Just want to thank you for the thought fullness of this site. I am a transplant to Louisiana and I just love the food. So I need recipes so I can try new dishes. Thank you, Thank you for the originals.

I found your site after a lot of annoyance looking through the big beautiful cookbook of a famous "Cajun chef". I want recipes that my Grandma REALLY cooked without ingredients that she would NEVER have put in. I don't mind a few modern twists now and then, but don't pass it off as the real thing.

GREAT SITE!!! Got here looking for a boudin recipe, and look at all I found. Canmt's wait to try a lot of these recipes. Wendell in LA (Lower Alabama)

Great web site. Have been in Dallas since 1987. Really miss the cajun food back home!

Well i moved to Louisiana 3 years ago. I married a full blown coona**. his family really believe in eating the seafood and catching all their own food so i have had to emprovise the way i cook and I tell you what, this website has really helped me learn. I have even given his mother some of these and she likes them better. Thank you for being there to save my butt!!

Thanks for the site. Live along MS River now and sure enjoy the site.

Thanks for all the great recipes.Alot of them remind me of home and the way my mamma used to cook.

my daughter has ben telling me about this site could not wait to get a computer to check it out.i am pure cajun and love to get new ideas from other cajuns. thanks jean pierre

Great webpage

Accidently found this wonderful site while looking for crockpot red beans & rice recipe....that was an hour ago. I married into the Cajun Heritage and 30 years later I consider myself a "North Louisiana Cajun" I learned from my mother-in-law...after 5 long distance phone calls I had made my first pot of chicken gumbo and I end the story with "God Bless my husband...he ate it." Thank you for you website, I always want to learn more.

Thank you for all your wonderful recipes, I have yet to find a bad one. Once again thank you

I like this website and I most cer-tainly hope that it continues to connect people to Louisiana. I am truely French, I enjoy all the things that make us unique to the real culture of our people. "Mercer Beacoup"!! Chrissey T.

I love the recipes. I lived in La. a few years and love the food. Thanks

Bonjour! Just ran across your website....looking forward to reading with beaucoup interest... As near as I can tell, my 12th or 13th great grande pepere was Pierre Cyr who landed in Port Royal, Nova Scotia about 1650-1660. I live in Dalton, Ma.. My dad was born in Keegan Me.(old Madawaska Territory) "Does anyone" Know any Cyr's down her in South Lousiana?

LOVE THE RECIPES,ALL HAVE TURNED OUT WELL.MY HUSBAND IS SO PLEASED

MY FAMILY LOVE THE CRAB MEAT STUFFED JALAPENO PEPPER. VERY HOT BUT VERY GOOD

Love the receipes. Such a plesant reminder of home. Thanks a million!

Great website! I will be ordering the cookbook soon. I lived in Crowley, LA for 22 years before my husband dragged me farther north :). I love it here but boy do I miss the food!

It is great to find believable authentic Louisiana recipes. I like to keep Mardi Gras by cooking traditional foods.

Love the recipes! Can't wait to buy the cookbook :)

Just found the site. C'est magnifique!!! Would love to meet other cajuns in the austin area. Maybe set up a meet up group so the families can cook and talk. Great for the kids!! Anyone interested then send an email!! Great site and glad I found it!!

LOVE THE RECIPES

I want to thank You all for these web-sites. I can find here everything I need. I just fell in love with Cajun food and I think this may be the real thing. Greetings from Finland - Terveiset Suomesta

I lived in Louisiana for 18 months back in the 70's. To this day I still miss the food. I love to cook "Cajun" and it is a huge hit with my friends. I am so impressed with your web site. You have such a great variety of recipes and the most user-friendly site I have ever used. I will be using it often. Thank you so much for your tremendous amount of work. However, Cajun cooking is well worth the effort.

I am orginally from Louisiana but now live in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. I recently found this website and enjoy the recipes.

My mother is from Louisiana and I have gone back and forth my whole life visiting my grandparents in Jeff Davis Parish. When I got married recently my Mawmaw gave me a copy of this cookbook and boy am I glad she did! There are lots of recipes that are really simple and easy to make, and its helping to open my hubbie up to Cajun food!

I forgot add her father

I was born in New Iberia La in 1935. We moved to Port Arthur in Dec 1942. My wife from Ill. and married nov 1962. She has never ate cajun food but whene her mother and came for chirstmas of 1962 she cooked a gumbo for them. Now all my in-laws up north eat cajun food.when her nince came from Seattle to vist. Her and husband got te cajun food for the first time so I gave my her my cajun cook book. And never did replace it

Thanks for the receipe!

GREAT RECIPES ON THIS WEBSITE. THANKS A LOT.

Hi, I just found your web site last night. I love it already. hope to order your book soon .Being a true cajun it's easy to love your book.

What a find in Recipes, Great Site, Love it all..

I LOVE THIS SITE! I USE IT ALL THE TIME TO FIND RECIPES!

Is there a way to read the reviews of the recipes on this website. It would be great if we could..

Great site for all of us cajuns! Keep up the great work.

You all make it so very nice and easy to cook such good food. I just Love this site, my husband loves it also, Thanks for the great recipes.

enjoy cooking for my workers onboard the vessel that i am the captain of in the gulf of mexico out of fourchon louisiana.thank's good web site.

I discovered your site while doing a search. You have great information about Cajun heritage as well as deliscious sounding recipes. I cook dishes like these all of the time and will be revisiting often for new recipes.

What a great website; with wonderful Cajun info. I was born in Lafayette in the year 1959. My dear departed mother's maiden name was "Landry". I, moved to Monroe,La before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. I sure can't wait to move back " Home " love, Russell

I discovered your site by accident, as I was searcing for different receipe sites. That has been over a year and half ago. Your receipe are the best I haver ever had and the directions are so plain and simple. I was not a cook at first, but now people think I have been cooking for years. They absolutly love and adore my cooking. No complaints there. Thank you very much for sharing your receips.

Your recipes are very good and easy to prepare. Thank you!

I'm originally from Kaplan, and Ms. Brenda Richard was a classmate of mine. What a great site!!! I also know several of your recipe contributors....Thanks, it's like being home.

Thank you so much for this site. Living in Ohio and being away from all the old time Cajun recipes makes it seem like you have lost your roots. Thank everyone for sharing their wonderful heritage with all the displaced Cajuns.

Great site. I am not the best cook, but your bread pudding recipies are fun and everyone seems to like them. If I could not be Norwegian, I probably would pick Cajun!!!

Hi There! We moved up to Alaska in 2008. I really appreciate all the recipes I can take advantage of up here. Beignets and home made boudin were 2 things I had never made back home. Sure can't buy them here! So I now make them! Delicious recipes! Thank you SOOO much! God Bless, Donna aka 'CajunAlaskan'

This book is great a friend of mine told me about it today and I have been on her looking at all the stuff that you all have and it all sounds wonderful. I will have to try a few Recipes I love to cook. Thanks for letting me visit.

I,ve never been a great cook, O.K., but, not great. I found your website be accident, and, now, I,m a great cook. My family and I have enjoyed every recipe that I tried. I visit your site often and have fun just browzing through all the delilious dishes and can,t wait to try them. I never really liked to cook before, but, now I,m enjoying all the compliments, and, telling everyone about your site.

I have really enjoyed your website. My children & I lived in the Shreveport,LA area from 6/2002-9/2005. we have crawfish in our area it just doesn't taste the same as it does in LA. I do plan to move back to the are in time. I love the culture,people & the weather. it's to cold here in PA even though i grew up here,I miss livin there the most.

I have been on the gulf coast for 30 years and i love cajun food. I am so excited about finding your website. I cook alot, even though my children are grown. But with 4 adults and 4 grandsons living walking distance, I always have something on the stove weekends. And they love cajun food. Now i have access to a fabulous cajun recipe website. Thank you

I cook Jambalaya all the time. My sister made Gumbo. Since she passed away, I have to make that now also. Am trying your Hearty Gumbo recipe. I will let you know how it turns out. Love that cooking from Louisiana.

I just received your cookbook in the mail, and I love it. I decided to buy another one to send to my friend in Detroit. She misses La. cooking so much, so I thought your cookbook would help. Thanks so much for all of the great recipes!

I have been reading the recipes for a while. I am the 5 time World Champion from New Iberia and I enjoy the web page.

Wow! I love your website. I was raised in Kaplan but I now live in Texas. Thanks for stirring up all those old memories of sitting at my maw-maw's table.

I was born & raised in Cut Off, La. Stumbled across your website looking for bayou recipes.I am always looking for differ ways to cook stuff.

Hello,I was born in Crowley,lived in RAYNE,22 yrs now in Ar.Love your site!my mouth waters just going over the recipes!...miss down home still!..go lsu!and still and always Saints!

thanks for having a great and informative site. As a child, I remember poutine de seablem (sp) and could not for the life of me figure out how it was done. White Squash pudding will bring back many memories.

I come back to you web site every single day to view your tips. Just ordered you cookbook - I know I won't be disappointed. The Hotter and Spicer the happier I am. I'll be back to let ya'll know how my first recipe from the book went. Plan on using something out of it for the Tobey Keith Concert -tailgating party...

I love this website they have so many great recipes!!!!! I am always an hit at every party when I bring a dish using "real cajun recipe"'s website! Thank You

Thank you for the blackend seasoning recipe. I really miss living on the gulf coast.

i enjoyed this sight i was looking for differenmt recipies and i came to the right place.i be back soon.

So glad I found this site - love to cook but run out of ideas of what to cook - Thanks!

I miss the La food. Excited to find this web site. Friends are always wanting me to cook LA food. Nice to get new recipes.

I AM GLAD I FOUND THIS WEBSITES. I MISS NEW ORLEANS FOOD AND RECIPES. I LOVE CAJUN COOKING AND CREOLE COOKING. I WILL BE BUY- ING THE COOKBOOK SOON. THANK YOU.

Hey hey where tha beer coola? Lol

I love this website. I love cajun food! I lived in Houma, LA as a child and have many great memories of the cajun cousine. I will used this website often!

I love this site. I once lived in the Shrevsport area while stationed at Barksdale AFB. I fell in love with "Cajun" Food. I love to cook and try new recipes and add my variations to them. When ever and where ever I travel I always look for Resturants that serve a Cajun cusine. I will continue to come back to this web site and look for interesting recipes.

My heritage is Coon-ss. I'm very proud but have lived all over and love to teach my girls cajun cooking. this is an awesome place to go for the best food ideas......Let the good times roll.

born and raised in lafourche parish; but for the last 2 years i've been traveling the U.S. and there's no place like home and the food back home.your web site helps me with my amature cooking expertice.

born and raised in lafourche parish; but for the last 2 years i've been traveling the U.S. and there'sno place like home and the food back home.your web site helps me with my amature cooking expertice.

Great Site! Now we've just got to muster up the courage to try making some beignets on our own!

would recommend to anyone...If you ask for a recipe, they will find you one.

HELLO EVEYONE, i CANT SEEM TO LOG A NEW RECIPE ON THE SITE. ANYONE KNOW WHY?? THANKS KEN

Just passin' through, thought I'd look around. My mother's side ancestry is Richard/Cooper from Jennings/Elton area. I'm in Nashville, TN now by way of Denver. Interesting to see how many people are dying to be Cajun now. When I was growing up in the 50's and 60's, it wasn't cool to be Cajun and there was no bi-lingual education. I spent years in the Galliano/Golden Meadow area and I think back to those days. I can remember there were two directions, up d' bayou and down d' bayou. Ted

Cooking and cold beer now that's Louisiana!!!!!!!

I was born in Abbeville, La. and raised in Kaplan, moved to wa. 24 years ago. am here for a 3month vist

i was born in Lafayette, raised in crowley. lived here all my life. 2 things i wish for...cooler weather and snow in the winter...living down here its practically summer year round and u can forget about snow...the most u will see is a few flakes...thats it. other than that...luv it here!

real fun & useful site.I like to brouse.

I Love this site. It is always helpful and the recipes are always delicious!!

Good job with the recipes! I made the simple dish of sweet potatoes with brown sugar, syrup. Never again will I go through the trouble of sweet potato souffle! Today I made the Gumbo Burgers from p. 81. Yummy! Tout bon!

great recipes

I HAVEN'T TRIED A RECIPE ON THIS SITE I DIDN'T LIKE.

I haven't seen a recipe that didn't sound good.

Love this site but I love the recipes even more!!!!!

The recipes that I've obtained from this site are very good and tasty.I have tried several dishes and they all taste very good. I'll continue to utilize this site.

I love the recipes I've gotten from this site, I am a Home Econ. teacher and used several of the recipes for a luncheon my students prepared for the entire faculty and staff of my school, they got rave reviews!

I;m gonna try to cook and eat it all!!

I like Cajun food.. but look for the simple recipes that focus on the basics. Not a full complement of ingredients, like Zatarain's, etc here in Argentina. So.. you're doing a public service... Thanks

Love this site just found it and i love it.. Born and raised Cajun ,

I like some of your recipes better than the ones in BH&G! I have work all my life and now that I'm not working I'm going alot of cooking,so I'm guess I can say that I'm learning to cook.Thank You for all the great recipes!!!

i lived in kaplan many years my kids born in kaplan hospital , i love recipes , thanks still have friends and family there , love cooking

Great site! I took a course on Caajun cooking from Ms. J Miller of Iota. The first thing I learned is that Cajun does not mean smothered in cayenne or hot sauce. The blend of flavors is the KEY or secret. I am sure that I will enjoy cooking my way through your recipes....Merci!

Great website!!! I'm also excited to become a "Fan" on Facebook. I'm curious to know why the Crowley Rice Festival isn't listed. I have a friend in New York who absolutely loves when I send her Cajun recipes...I'll send her a link to your site...she'll love it!! Have a great week~~God Bless!!

I would just like to thank you for the recipes that are on your site. My grandmother has been the keeper of the good recipes and she suddenly had a stroke. I thought I would never introduce my kids to the great southern foods. I have a ball using the recipes and every bite brings back a good memory. I also enjoy the site of my family laying around rubbing their stomachs. lol

Love your site -- love Cajun food. Louisiana is my second home; thanks for all the great recipes that make me feel like I'm there again! :)

I was just surfing the net for a boiled cookie recipe, and came across this website. Now I can make cookies for family and friends!