Recipes With Course: Main Dishes
Homemade Pork and Beef Gumbo Sausage
When you are a displaced Cajun and do not have access to fresh sausage, here is an easy alternative – Make them yourself. On a typical boucherie day when the hog is slaughtered and the sausage is prepared, the sausage links which are soft are hung outside on a clothes ...
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Wild Duck and Game Marinade
Louisiana known as Sportsman Paradise is popular for wild duck, goose and wild game hunting. If you get lucky enough to have wild game for dinner use this marinade; it works great for rabbits and squirrels too. If you find yourself without anything on hand, fill a container with ice ...
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Boiled Crawfish
The crawfish boil is one the most popular Cajun meals. Cajun seafood boil seasonings (we love Slap Ya Mama’s Seafood boil) do the trick to perfectly season crawfish. This recipe is for the times you don’t have it or can’t buy it. A neat addition to boiled crawfish is adding ...
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Tomato Based Sauce for Redfish or Red Snapper
A very basic, classic and delicious sauce for virtually any type fish. Ingredients1/2 cup oil 1/2 cup flour 1/4 cup chopped onion 4 garlic cloves minced 1/2 cup chopped celery 2 cans No 1 whole tomatoes 1 bay leaf salt and pepper to taste Pinch of thyme and oregano (optional) ...
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Eggplant and Beef Casserole
Chantel Menard for her Dad Howard Menard Eggplants are a popular food among the Cajuns. The most popular is the purple eggplant – aubergine violette au de bramms as my Mom would say. Ingredients1 pound bacon 1 pound ground meat 1 pound cheese (1/2 Cheddar and 1/2 Velveeta or Pepper ...
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Venison (Deer) and Pork Sausage
Mixing pork meat with venison will help tame the wild gamey flavor. Ingredients6 1/2 pound lean venison 3 1/2 pound ground pork meat 4 ounces salt 1 ounce black pepper 1/2 ounce red cayenne pepper, optional 1 large onion 1 lemon, juiced 1 bunch scallionsDirectionsStep 1On the venison, make sure ...
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Healthy Jambalaya
Here is a jambalaya that your family can enjoy. It has lots of flavor, veggies, and low-fat meats! Ingredients1 package low-fat sausage 1 package boneless skinless chicken breast 1 celery stalk, chopped 2 small onions, chopped 4 cloves of garlic, chopped 1 bunch green onions, chopped 1 green bell pepper, ...
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Bert’s Chicken ‘n Corn ‘n Salsa Crescent
The author is a great Cajun cook and is always conjuring up recipes. Although, she has more choices, she mixes a lil of this and a lil of that just like our mothers and grandmothers did. Ingredients3 cans crescent rolls or puff pastry, cut in triangle crescent size 1 onion, ...
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