Whatever You Want Sauce Piquant
Sauce Piquant – A hot spicy stew made with tomato paste or sauce, roux and most any meat available. The most popular is seafood, fish, chicken, turtle or alligator sauce piquant. As the recipe implies though, use whatever you want!!! Ingredients 1 pound crawfish (you can also use shrimp, crabmeat, ...
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Cabbage Casserole III
“De chou” (day shoo) is the Cajun word for cabbage. Beats MawMaw’s childhood nick name of “cabbage head,” don’t you think? Ingredients 1 head cabbage 1 large onion, chopped 1/2 cup bread crumbs 2 cloves garlic, chopped 1/2 block butter 1/2 cup bell pepper 1/4 cup half and half cream ...
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Green Beans With Garlic-Herb Butter
Green beans have many common names – string beans, pole beans, snap beans, zydeco – just to name a few. Two of my favorite ways to eat green beans is to break it off the plant and eat it fresh; the other is pickled. I just wonder if I could ...
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Louisiana Candied Yams
There are two varieties of sweet potatoes; the pale yellow with a dry flesh and the dark orange with a moist flesh. The dark orange variety is plumper in shape and somewhat sweeter than the yellow variety. What are frequently called yams, especially in the Southern U.S., are in fact ...
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Cheesy Corn Maque Choux
I had often wondered what “maque choux” meant in French. My friend, Howard, was smart enough to inform me that macque choux was the native American Indian word for corn. Cajuns took these words to the limit. They prepare a great variety of many corn dishes. Ingredients 1 frozen 12 ...
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Crab (Shrimp or Crawfish) Corn Chowder
Cajuns love their seafood. This “soup for the Cajun soul” can be made with crab, shrimp, crawfish, all three or in combination with each other. Experiment with the mixtures of the seafood available in your area. Ingredients 1 block margarine or butter (8 tbsp) 1 cup onions, finely chopped 1/2 ...
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Crab and Shrimp Soup (Bisque)
One of the more popular classic Cajun soups made easy; this one will really “hit the spot”. This recipe is dedicated to Howard Menard. Ingredients 1 (10 oz) box frozen corn 1 medium onion, chopped 1 block butter 1 can Campbell’s cream of shrimp soup 1 cup water 5 tbsp ...
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Howard’s Cajun Power Ribeye and Onions
Rib-eye steak is a boneless cut from the rib section of beef. The “eye” in its name refers to the round cross-section of a muscle that is not well exercised, so rib-eye steak is very tender. Ingredients 3 medium ribeye steak 4 - 6 tbsp oil salt and pepper to ...
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Beet Relish
This delicious relish is great served with smoked sausage, ham or any other meat. It is especially delicious served with lots of hard boiled eggs! Ingredients 2 cans #303 one pound whole beets 1/2 cup white vinegar 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 tsp salt 1 small bottle horseradish Directions Step 1 ...
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Taco-Stuffed Upside-Down Cornbread
This dish is an easy one-dish meal and also makes a great presentation if you want to impress someone special with your cooking skills! Ingredients 1 pound ground beef plus 1 teaspoon Cajun seasoning 1 cup water 1 package taco seasoning 1 (4 oz) can green chilies 1 large plum ...
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Sugar Free Fudge
Save calories!! Make sugar-free fudge. Adapted from a recipe from www.equal.com. Ingredients 1/4 cup diet margarine 2 oz unsweetened chocolate 24 packets Equal sweetener 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 (8 oz) package cream cheese, softened 1/2 cup nuts, chopped Directions Step 1 Melt margarine over low heat. Add chocolate and ...
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Cajun Made Mosquito Repellant
This is a “recipe” for a great mosquito repellant. 10 parts water to 1 part vanilla extract. Pour into a spritzer bottle and spray it on you. There is the added benefit of smelling like a cookie. Remember this though – Mosquito repellents don’t repel; they hide you. The spray ...
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Le Poulet noirci avec les Fraises et les Epinards (Blackened Chicken with Strawberries and Spinach)
One of our more “Guilt-Free Cajun Creations” Our author writes, “This is another one of my somewhat Heart-Healthy recipes. There are a few open markets here in Kansas City, and one day, while walking through the famous City Market, I stumbled upon a vender selling the odd combination of spinach ...
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Pineapple Delight
...A quick, hot summer day treat made with pineapple. Ingredients 1 (20 oz) can pineapple 1 box jello Vanilla sugar-free pudding 1 (8 oz) tub Cool Whip Lite Directions Step 1 Mix pudding with pineapple and juice. Step 2 Add the Cool Whip and mix well, then put in refrigerate ...
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Genevia’s BBQ Sauce
We prepare this sauce for our bar-b-cues. Great barbie sauce for any occasion. I always double the recipe. Ingredients 2 small cans tomato sauce 2 cans water (same as tomato sauce) 2 tbsp yellow mustard 2 tbsp steak sauce 2 tbsp lemon juice 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce 1 cup Brown ...
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