Recipes by Mawmaw
Black-Eye Pea Jambalaya (Rice Cooker)
Plug in dat rice cooker! This is a fast and easy dish to make in your rice cooker. Ingredients 3/4 stick butter 1 small onion, chopped 1 small bell pepper, chopped 1 pound smoked sausage sliced and browned 1 1/2 cup raw rice Creole or Cajun Seasoning to taste 1 ...
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Carmel Pecan Candy
Ingredients 1/3 cup plus 1/2 cup butter divided 20 cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies, crushed 1 (14 oz) package caramels 3 cups chopped pecans Topping 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips 3 tbsp butter 3 tbsp heavy whipping cream 3 tbsp light corn syrup 3/4 tsp vanilla extract Directions Step 1 In ...
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Syrup Cake
Another classic recipe using cane syrup, this recipe was once used as a substitute for the groom’s cake. Little known fact: About one tablespoon of refined sugar is produced from each full grown sugar cane stalk. Ingredients 1 cup sugar 1 cup syrup 2 eggs 2 cups flour 1/2 cup ...
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Baking Powder Biscuits
A classic type of scratch biscuit. Ingredients 2 cups sifted flour 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 2 tbsp shortening 3/4 cup milk Directions Step 1 Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Step 2 In a medium glass bowl, sift the flour once, measure. Add the baking powder and salt ...
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Buttermilk Biscuits
A classic light and fluffy biscuit recipe for buttermilk lovers. Ingredients 4 cups sifted flour 1 tsp salt 1 tsp baking powder 3/4 cup shortening or Crisco butter 1/4 tsp soda 3/4 cup buttermilk Directions Step 1 Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Step 2 Sift flour once, measure and sift ...
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Pineapple Topped Cake
This cake is so very simple to make…you’d think that it had taken all day to cook. Highly rated by Pop Pop – “Best cake he ever ate”. This would be a great cake to bake for a bingo or other fund-raiser. Ingredients 1 box Pineapple Flavored Cake Mix 1 ...
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Mirliton Farci
Per www.freetranslation.com, farci (fahr-SEE) means stuffed. Vegetables pears and Chayote squash are mirliton to Cajuns but are all the same vegetable just different names based on the region one is from. Ingredients 4 mirliton 1/2 cup butter 8 ounces finely ground ham 1 pound finely ground boiled shrimp 1 small ...
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Baked Sweet Potatoes – Yams
...pping in foil it was not having my heat high enough. For a melt in your mouth sweet potato try this recipe. No butter needed; the sweet potato will make its own juices. Quick question – do you eat the skins? Do I? Yes, MawMaw does! Ingredients 3 to 4 ...
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Shrimp Spaghetti
The unique flavor of this dish develops when the spaghetti is cooked in the pot with the tomato and roux based sauce. Spaghetti is the choice pasta but the dish may be prepared with a pasta of your choice. Ingredients 1/2 cup prepared roux or scratch roux (1 cup flour ...
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Crab Fingers Supreme
Definitely a delicious treat – Blue Point Crab Fingers. Mostly used as an appetizer, it is generally served with a Shrimp Remoulade Sauce, crab salad or deep fried and served with a seafood cocktail sauce. See our Remoulade Sauce recipe – Shrimp Remoulade Sauce  Ingredients 1 stick butter (8 ...
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Enice’s Coconut Pecan Pralines
MawMaw knows how to score points with her mother-in-law. She loves to make her pralines; they are really easy to make, but don’t tell her Mom-in-law…she thinks MawMaw has slaved all day. These pralines are exceptional. Ingredients 4 cups sugar 1 stick butter - 1/2 cup 1 large can pet ...
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Seafood Dressing
We know Mawmaw and Grandma did not have the luxury of cream soups but that does not mean a Cajun can’t use them. Especially since Mawmaw and Grandma now use them too! Ingredients 1 cup margarine or butter 1 cup onion chopped 1 cup bell pepper chopped 5 cups raw ...
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Pork Chop Casserole II
Ingredients 8 - 10 pork chops 1 (10 oz) can cream of mushroom soup 1 (10 oz) can cream of onion soup 1 can water 2 cups uncooked rice 1/2 cup gravy from brown chops 1 small onion, chopped Black pepper and cayenne to taste 1/2 cup chopped parsley 1/2 ...
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a Caillé
...s a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother who will be missed by all. With her passes a part of our Cajun heritage – memories, language, food and experiences – unique to Southwest Louisiana. We love you Mawmaw. I’ll miss your oatmeal, gumbo, pralines and figs, but most of all, your ...
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Pork Ribs with Turnips
Pork and turnips are a very popular combination in Cajun culture. In fact, turnips work very well with beef, wild game and chicken. It is so low-carb friendly, you could have it every day. Ingredients 3 lbs lean pork short ribs 6 cups peeled and sliced turnips 1/2 large onion, ...
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