Eggnog Pralines
Eggnog is one of our favorite holiday drinks and it makes an INCREDIBLE addition to these unique pralines we invented just for the holiday season 🎅🏼🤶🏼🎄🎁 Ingredients 2 cups pecans 1.5 cups white sugar 2/3 cup light brown sugar 1/2 cup eggnog 6 tbsp butter 1 tsp vanilla extract Generous ...
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Bread Pudding with Bourbon Sauce
This bourbon flavored bread pudding reminds me of New Orleans and its famous Bourbon Street. Easy, fun and outrageously good. Ingredients 1/4 cup raisins 2 tbsp bourbon 1 1/4 cup milk 1% reduced-fat milk 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 tbsp Watkins vanilla extract 11/2 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp ground nutmeg ...
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Loretta’s Vegetable Chow Chow Relish
Loretta is like many Cajun cooks mixing up some of this and some of that. This recipe may be considered somewhat vague in directions but it is so good with rice and gravy and uses fresh vegetables from your garden that it is worth trying. Grandpa always has this on ...
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Peanut Butter Cookies
The author’s granddaughter, Veronica Lange Bourque shares her memory of the time as a student in Mrs. Drott’s 8th grade Home-Economics class. Mrs. Drott allowed each student to choose one of their favorite recipes to be prepared and shared with the class. Each dish was then anonymously voted on by ...
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Coosh Coosh a’la Microwave
A cornmeal dish know by so many names Kush Kush, Cush Cush, Couche Couche or Coosh Coosh – is a favored Cajun dish. It is also eaten with different condiments Milk…. Figs, Sugar, Cane Syrup,Coffee, Bacon, and Cracklings. A Cajun tradition made easy with the microwave.. Ingredients 3 cups cornmeal ...
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Oyster Rockefeller (Rockerfeller) Dip
Rockefeller should have only two R’s, one at each end, but not one in the middle. However the spelling is so popular both ways, we have decided to list both spellings for the recipe. Ingredients 1 can chopped spinach 6 oysters chopped fine 3 medium onions chopped fine or grated ...
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Barbecue Bar-b-que Crabs
A nice alternative to boiling crabs.- stuffing can be used to stuff mushrooms and to make shrimp egg rolls Ingredients 12 crabs cleaned and seasoned with salt and pepper or your favorite Cajun seasoning 1 cup chopped onions 1 pound chopped shrimp 8 tbsp butter 1 tsp Cajun seasoning to ...
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Chocolate Hard Shell Sauce for Chocolate Bread
The sauce for this chocolate bread recipe hardens on the bread. The cook of the recipe writes – My Mom, Verlene Abshire made this when i was a lil girl. Now we make this for my kids and all their friends. They love it and we make a whole loaf ...
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Audrey’s Fruit Salad
In memory of Triston Francis Bourque From Wikipedia – Fruit salad is a dish consisting of various kinds of fruit, sometimes served in a liquid, either in their own juices or a syrup. When served as an appetizer or as a dessert, a fruit salad is sometimes known as a ...
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Coconut Cream Cheese Bread Pudding
The first time I remember seeing this recipe was in a old Pillsbury Cook Off Pamphlet cookbook. The recipe was submitted by an expectant mother and she won the Cook Off that year. Recipe can easily be halved…Let your bread go stale just to make this!! This is one of ...
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Perfect Peach Pie
Pie consistency is perfect; Paw-Paw dubbed it the “perfect peach pie”. Firm peaches are recommended Ingredients 2 - 9 inch pastry pie crust egg white with 2 teaspoon water 2 1/2 - 3 pounds medium size firm peaches sliced - 5 1/2 cups Juice of one lemon ...
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Vanilla Wafers Coconut Cake
A nice twist to an angel food type cake – an old-school type of cake, Ingredients 2 sticks butter or margarine (8 tbsp) 2 cups sugar 6 eggs 12 oz package vanilla wafers 1/2 cups milk or carnation evaporated milk 1 package 7oz angel coconut 1 cup chopped pecans Directions ...
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Crumb Topping for Cakes
...Perfect for bundt cakes, coffee cakes, apple cake …did I mention cake? Ingredients 1/2 cup flour 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 cup brown sugar 4 tablespoon softened butter Directions Step 1 For the crumb topping, mix the butter with flour, cinnamon, and brown sugar until crumbs form. Sprinkle crumbs on top ...
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Crusting Cream Cheese Frosting
This was a bakery recipe that was shared – perfect for wedding cakes. Baker make 2 recipes for a wedding cake (3 tier); cut this in half for a regular size cake. If you make the whole recipe, you can refrigerate the leftover. You will be pleasantly surprised on how ...
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Priscilla’s Choupique (ShoePick) Patties
Properly called bowfin, the fish carries more aliases than John … trout, cotton fish and in South Louisiana, choupique (pronounced shoe-pick). Like gars, bowfin are bimodal breathers which means they have the capacity to breathe both water and air. Bowfin are considered a “trash fish” by many, but are treasured ...
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