Shrimp Grits
Always a hit at brunches. Just ask that Jenny girl. Ingredients 1 pound medium to large shrimp, peeled & deveined 1/4 to 1/2 stick butter 1/2 cup chopped green onions 1/4 pound fresh, sliced mushrooms 1/4 tsp salt 1 tsp garlic powder or 1 clove minced garlic or both 1 ...
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Some Good Grits
My friends all go to town on these incredible grits. Use this dish as a base for Sausage or Shrimp Grits. Ingredients 4 ounces butter 1 quart (4 cups) chicken stock/broth 1/4 cup chopped green onions 1/4 cup heavy cream or Half n Half 1 cup grits 4 ounces swiss ...
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Cajun Oyster Crackers
Ronnie & Amy brought these oysters crackers for one of our dinner parties and they were so good! A taste very similar to the Cajun Firecrackers. Ingredients 2 large packages oyster crackers 1 large package Hidden Valley Ranch 1 tsp dill seed 1/2 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp lemon pepper ...
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Heaven Made Famous Cajun Deep Fried Turkey Recipe
From the author: This is a Fried Turkey Recipe everyone will love. Not hot, no weird spices that produce a non-traditional Thanksgiving Turkey Flavor, this recipe is a garlicky, buttery, flavorful original Cajun Deep Fried Turkey. I worked for years perfecting this recipe and it is absolutely the best traditional, ...
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Mac Daddy’s Cajun Venison Meatloaf
This is a semi-spicy Cajun meatloaf that calls for Everglade Seasonings which is also known as Monkey Dust. It is made of salt, spices, monosodium glutamate, dehydrated garlic and onion, sugar, and papain. Ingredients 1 pound ground beef 1 pound ground venison 1 cup bread crumbs 1 egg 1/2 tsp ...
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Mirliton Shrimp and Crab Dressing
WBRZ of Baton Rouge, LA has a spotlight segment that celebrates a “Chef of the Month”. The Chef featured was the chef from Juban’s Creole restaurant. This recipe is timely as mirliton are in season at his time and relatively inexpensive. Ingredients 6 small mirlitons 1/2 pound ground pork 1 ...
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Oven Baked Redfish
Redfish is a favored fish of the Cajun fisherman. Ingredients 8 large redfish fillets 2 medium fresh tomatoes 1 small bottle (16 oz) Italian Dressing 1 stick butter 2 tsp Kosher salt or more to taste 2 tsp black pepper 1/4 cup chopped onion tops 3 cloves garlic minced 2 ...
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Oreo Cheesecake
This is an original dessert recipe, invented by one of our biggest contributors, Ms. Bert. Ingredients 4 packages (8 oz) cream cheese 1 cup sugar 1 cup sour cream 4 eggs 7 ounces melted semi-sweet chocolate 25 Oreos and 10 extra or so for garnishment 4 ounces melted butter 1 ...
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No Cook Ice Cream
Ice Cream sounds like a really good idea to cool off with the 2010 heat wave where the heat indexes have reached 109 degrees. Ingredients 6 beaten eggs (pasteurized eggs recommended) 2 cups sugar 2 tbsp flour 1/4 tsp salt 1 pint heavy cream 1 tbsp vanilla 4 cups regular ...
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Spinach Bread
It is amazing how great spinach is in so many dishes. This is just one of them from one of our favorite cooks. Ingredients 1 French bread (store purchased or homemade) 1 box chopped frozen spinach, defrosted & drained 8 ounces shredded jalapeño cheese 1 medium onion, chopped fine 2 ...
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Spicy Black Eye Peas
Happy New Year meal- Pork – Cabbage – Black-eyes. Serve with freshly baked corn bread. Ingredients 1 17 oz can of black-eyes peas or 1 cup dry black-eyes cooked 1 cup dry beans = 3 cups cooked 3 to 6 slices bacon 1 can (16 oz) chopped tomatoes, undrained 1 ...
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Hopping John Black Eye Peas
Our recipe submitter writes: I’m not Cajun, just an ole Mississippi boy, but my Granddaughter married a boy from Mamou so I feel like I’m part of the family. I think all of my Cajun friends will like this dish. Ingredients 1 cup dried black-eyed peas 2 or 3 slices ...
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Filled Wheat Thin
My niece shared this recipe with our family Christmas 2008. These taste so much like butterfingers but have much less the calories. What is nice is that you can use all reduced fat products and save the calories for eggnog. Great for Christmas and Easter Tins. Ingredients 1 box wheat ...
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Cajun Potato Gumbo
This recipe was given to me by my grandmother. It comes from her mother I guess it was a simple recipe to feed a lot. Ingredients 1/4 cup cooking oil 1 cup onions 1/2 cup bell peppers 1/2 cup celery 1 large piece of salt meat 5 large red potatoes ...
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Pork Grillades (Gree-yahds)
This is a popular recipe request. This recipe is one of the classics and as with the old recipes, cooks use a lil of this and a lil of that. Between Mawmaw and Bert, the beginning of the semblance of a recipe has been created. This recipe calls for an ...
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