Praline Cake
A simple Cajun cake. Ingredients 1 box yellow cake mix 1 box light brown sugar or 2 1/3 cups 2 tbsp all-purpose flour 2 eggs 1 block butter 1 tsp vanilla 1 1/2 cup chopped pecans Directions Step 1 Bake yellow cake mix per box instructions and let cool. Mix ...
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Reduced Sugar Fruit Salad
This reduced sugar fruit salad is probably a little bit healthier than its full-sugar counterpart. Ingredients 1 large can fruit cocktail in light syrup/Splenda 1 small can light mandarin orange with Splenda 2 regular cans light sliced peaches 1 regular can light pears 1/2 bag of red grapes cut in ...
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Yummy Ham and Bean Soup
This is an amazing ham and bean soup. It’s also the perfect way to use the leftover ham bone or ham slices after Thanksgiving or Christmas. An added bonus to this recipe is its flexibility. If you don’t deem yourself a great cook, or are afraid of taking on such ...
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Baked Pork Chop
Pork has always been a favorite of the Cajun culture. Our more popular dishes made from pork are boudin, cracklings, and hog-head cheese, From the High Plains Midwest Agricultural Journal –Pork tenderloin is just as lean as a skinless chicken breast. –It takes about eight minutes to broil, grill or ...
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Carl’s Crawfish ÉtouffĂ©e
Crawfish Étouffée is one of our favorite Cajun classics, but many newcomers find the dish tricky. This recipe is sure to deliver delicious results in a short amount of time. Ingredients 1 lbs crawfish or shrimp tails, shelled and cleaned 1 onion, chopped 1 bell pepper, chopped 1 can cream ...
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Mint Julep
Get your hat ….The Kentucky Derby is on – Mint Juleps are a sell out. Some Mint Julep have sold for as high as $2,000 a drink. If that is too fancy for you, try making your own. Very easy to do! Ingredients 4 oz Kentucky Bourbon 2 tsp granulated ...
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Blueberry Jam (Low Sugar)
It is Blueberry Season and everyone loves blueberries also known as star berries We love them fresh picked eaten straight from the bush or baked into a favorite dessert or we enjoy them as jam, preserves and jelly. Maine is the blueberry production capital of North America but they are ...
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Spiced Fig Preserves
If you have never tried Spiced Fig Jam…now is the time to make it!! July is Fig month Pick, them – Cook Them and Can Them and Eat Them. Afraid of wasp in the trees? Here is an interesting fact about that. From omgfacts.com fig wasps and fig trees have ...
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Watermelon Puree Frozen Popsicle
It’s Watermelon Time!!! Did you know July is celebrated as National Watermelon Month? And because it is full of water;the fruit is called a WATERmelon. About 91.5 percent of the entire food is water thus why it is probably one of the most popular foods during summer. Every part of ...
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Blueberry Pie
With July being Blueberry month – here are a few fun facts from the USDA and a great pie recipe adapted from Better Homes and Garden. ▪ Blueberries grow in clusters on bushes but don’t ripen at the same time ▪ Blueberries are also called star berries ▪ Wild blueberries ...
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Fig Cobbler with Cheddar Cheese Crust
A cobbler , a deep-dish fruit pie with a rich biscuit crust, usually only on top. would be a perfect dish to make with Extra Fresh Figs. The crust a tasty biscuit dough is highlighted in taste by the shredded cheddar cheese used Don’t have time to make the crust…a ...
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Bread and Butter Pickles (Good and Easy)
Pickle is defined as “a small cucumber preserved in vinegar, brine, or a similar solution”. You won’t be in a pickle if you made these pickles. This recipe is so good, fast and easy to make and the recipe works really well with vidalia onions. Once you eat the cucumbers ...
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Roasted Red Potatoes
Red potatoes stay firm when cooking and are frequently referred to as new potatoes. Red potatoes which have medium to low starch hold their shape when boiled, baked or sliced. Which is why most Cajun use them to make their potato salads. Ingredients 8 to 10 small red potatoes cut ...
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Baked Sweet Potatoes – Yams
My Mom baked the best sweet potatoes. For years I tried to replicate hers and always blamed my not having a gas oven as to why mine were not quite as juicy and as flavorful. In fact I tried wrapping in foil but they still were not perfect. My problem ...
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Hot Dill Pickles
From Google, dill is an aromatic annual herb of the parsley family, with fine blue-green leaves and yellow flowers. The leaves and seeds of dill are used for flavoring and for medicinal purposes. The word dill comes from the Norwegian word “dilla” meaning to soothe. Dill pickles is one of ...
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