Recipe Type: Beef
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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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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Mirliton (Mirleton) Vegetable Pear Casserole
The vegetable used to make this dish has several spellings and wordings. They are as seen above: Mirleton – Mirliton – Vegetable Pear – Chayote The chayote is a more or less pear-shaped member of the gourd family. Several varieties of chayote exist, but the commonly available one has thick ...
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Coca Cola Roast
An interesting cooking angle to get a better gravy with the older Cajun women when cooking a meat dish was to caramelize sugar after browning the meat. Some cooks actually do this as the first step. Caramelizing sugar result is a tasty, brownish syrup which is used to coat the ...
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Chuck (Beef) Roast or Eye of Round Roast with Brown Tasty Gravy
A few weeks ago we entered a fast way to make oven baked chicken fricasse’. This is the beef version. A fail proof way to cook the perfect roast with a perfect gravy similar to the older cooks. Ingredients1 chuck or beef roast approximately 3 pounds 1 can cream of ...
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All In One Hamburger Casserole
Fix this in the dish and bake it in the dish. Ingredients1 cup rice 3 tbsp flour 1 tsp chili powder 1 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 tsp each black pepper and red pepper 2 tbsp butter/margarine 1 pound ground beef 2 tbsp finely chopped onion 2 tbsp finely chopped bell ...
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Braised Beef Short Ribs
Braising as defined by princeton.com means to cook by browning in fat and then simmering in a closed container. Many Cajun beef and pork dinners and suppers are cooked this way. Rib recipe can be cooked stove top or in the oven. Ribs do not have to be pre-boiled. Ingredients2 ...
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Oven Barbequed Beef Short Ribs
Because of the connective tissue ribs are tough and require long cooking to soften them up. Beef Short Ribs do take a while to cook but the taste rewards you for being so patient. These ribs promise to be finger licking good! Ingredients2 1/2 to 3 pound beef short ribs ...
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