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Potato Salad Everybody Loves
This is a side dish and it is good! My mother has won everyone over at church and service league with this crowd pleasing potato salad. This creamy, yet flavorful potato salad wins everyone over and is a great side dish with fried chicken, gumbo or barbecue. You can make ...
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Crawfish Pie-Tart
“Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo… ‘Cause tonight I’m gonna see my ma cher amio” Could this be the same crawfish pie in this “Jambayla” song? Ingredients 3/4 medium bell pepper, chopped 1 large onion, chopped 2 ribs celery, chopped 3/4 cup butter 6 tbsp crawfish fat (optional) ...
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Momma’s Cajun Potato Salad
Momma would serve her family of nine children this potato salad to go with her Sunday roast or chicken gumbo. Ingredients 2 pounds medium red potatoes 1 small celery stalk chopped fine (optional) 3 scallions (green onions) chopped fine 1/4 cup minced parsley (optional) 3/4 cup mayonnaise 3 tbsp white ...
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Sugared Popcorn (Kettle Corn)
This old time sugar-coated popcorn dish is almost a lost tradition. Ms. Shirley’s friends still trade her bowls of shrimp and okra gumbo for batches of her kettle corn. Ingredients 3 to 4 gallons of popped popcorn 6 - 7 cups sugar 1 cup regular milk Roasted peanuts (optional) Pecans ...
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Steamed or Boiled Okra
My Dad was a sharecropper, so when we were kids, okra was one vegetable that was always plentiful. Being a Cajun, we often used it to make what we called an okra gumbo. Ingredients 1 lb okra Salt and black pepper to taste Vinegar to taste (or 1/4 cup for ...
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a Caillé
In memory of his grandmother on her passing in 2006, Brandon, Co-editor of the website, writes: Annie Mae Abshire was born, raised, married and lived in Kaplan, LA, for all 88 years of her life. She was a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother who will be missed by all. With ...
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Roux á la Microwave
A faster way to make roux. Roux is the foundation for many Cajun dishes. For gumbo, stews, fricassees, or as the old joke goes, you want to make a chocolate cake in Cajun land… first you make a roux. Ingredients 1 cup flour 3/4 cup oil (Canola or Vegetable) Directions ...
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Canned Hot Pickles Cucumber or Mirliton (Mirleton)
Used with gumbos or any rice and gravy dish in Cajun Country, chayote is a gourd-like squash that is about the size and shape of a very large pear. The skin is pale green and smooth with slight ridges that run lengthwise. Many compare the color to a light green ...
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