Recipes
Stuffed Eggplant – Eggplant Shrimp Boats
Eggplant is a warm season vegetable that requires a relatively long growing season to produce economic yields. The plant is very tender to frost and easily injured by long periods of cold temperatures below 50°F. Eggplants are more sensitive to low temperature than either tomatoes or peppers. The French call ...
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Marion’s Buttermilk Cake
Mawmaw says – After calling her old time friend to congratulate her on her retirement after 50 years at the same job, Marion was asked for one of her favorite family recipes. The cake recipe she gave had been handed down from her husband’s Earl old aunt when her daughter ...
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Colby’s Smothered Pork Chops & Gravy
I have seen my mom make rice and gravy many times. I got really hungry for some and she was not around; so I followed my instincts and made this delicious dish. The pork was really tender and the gravy was excellent. I commented at the table how Mom would ...
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Houma Gumbo
There are many ways to make gumbo with roux, without roux, with okra, without okra, with file’ and without file’. This gumbo’s basic base and flavor is created with file’ which are ground sassafras leaves. Houma is located in Terrebonne parish in Southern Louisiana. Sometimes given as Ouma (French) or ...
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Low Fat Cajun Chicken
With an ever increasing interest in the reduction of excess fat in our daily diets, the Cajuns are no exception. This recipe (Original, cooked in Hitachi rice cooker) has been modified to reduce the fat content; both the modified versions of cooking in a rice cooker and stovetop are shown. ...
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Eggplant Chow Chow Relish
Eggplant lovers unite! Another way to eat one of our favorites. Ingredients4 large eggplants 7 sweet peppers 10 tomatoes 5 cups chopped scallions green onions 1 cup salad oil 3/4 cup vinegar 3 tsp salt 1 1/2 tsp pepperDirectionsStep 1Bake 4 eggplants for 1 hour in a 400 degree oven. ...
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Green Tomato Chow Chow
Here is a great idea on how to use your green tomatoes before the stink (chinch) bug attacks them or if it rains too much and your tomatoes don’t ripen! Ingredients12 pounds to 13 green tomatoes or 1 peck 8 large onions 10 green bell peppers 3 tbsp salt 6 ...
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Cucumber Cabbage Chow Chow
Maw-Maw likes to call this one Hot Dog Relish. Many refer to chow-chow as a catch-all term for any vegetable based relish. Chow-chow is meant to be a condiment and is usually put on top of or alongside the food. This dish is meant to enhance the dish you are ...
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Green Tomato Cabbage Chow Chow Relish
One of the more popular chow chow that goes really well with rice and gravy or a Ball Parks Weiner hotdog! Ingredients4 cups ground up onions 4 cups ground up cabbage (medium head) 4 cups ground up tomato about 10 12 ground up green peppers 6 ground up sweet red ...
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Pickled Beans
Green beans have many common names – string beans, pole beans, snap beans just to name a few. Two of my favorite ways to eat green beans is to break it off the plant and eat it fresh; the other is pickled. Ingredients4 quarts green beans or yellow waxed beans ...
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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. Ingredients4 mirliton 1/2 cup butter 8 ounces finely ground ham 1 pound finely ground boiled shrimp 1 small white ...
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Mardi Gras Tri-Color Scrolls
This Noveau Cajun selection is going to make you say “throw me one Mister so I can try it!” It bakes up perfect and the taste is worth trading your Mardi Beads for. The color of this appetizer blends in perfect with Mardi Gras theme colors. The ease of preparation ...
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Cajun Fried Ribs
The spices in this recipe are perfect; garlic always seems to compliment the pork flavor. Ingredients1 whole slab pork ribs 4 tbsp garlic salt 2 tbsp Cajun seasonings crushed red pepper flour peanut oilDirectionsStep 1Season ribs on each side with Cajun seasonings, garlic salt and crushed red pepper. Marinate for ...
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Deep Fried Pickles
Many Cajuns grew up eating this appetizer at the Cock of the Walk Restaurant on Johnston Street in Lafayette before it burned down. The restaurant seemed almost famous for this dish. Many times, the restaurant’s parking lot would become flooded after heavy rains and once, a Kaplan man stepped out ...
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Pan Fried Bananas
Much like Jambalaya, this Nouveau Cajun dish has a Caribbean influence. Deep fried plantains are a Caribbean favorite but since bananas are readily available around Southwest Louisiana, it made sense to use them in place of delicious plantains. Even though no sugar is added, this dish is a naturally sweet ...
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Crawfish Casserole II
Congrats to the newlyweds, and authors of this recipe, Jessie and Jeremy Watson. The recipe is being posted as this is one of Jeremy’s favorite from his mother-in-law’s recipes. Ingredients1/2 cup butter or margarine 1 1/2 cup onion chopped 1/2 cup bell pepper chopped 1 can cream of shrimp or ...
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Never Fail Plain Cake
My husband’s mother loved to bake this cake for her husband and children. I use this cake now as a shortcake for sliced strawberries topped with Cool Whip or iced with chocolate served with a fresh brewed cup of coffee. Ingredients2 cups sugar 1 cup margarine or butter 1 cup ...
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Maw Maw’s Chicken and Dumplings (Fricassee)
I like to spoil my grandchildren; I knew this was my granddaughter’s favorite dish so I would cook it for her when she came. Here is a secret that neither she nor my daughter knows. Well you see neither of them like celery and some of my other grandchildren do ...
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Pickled Green Tomatoes
A popular old time classic. Ingredients4 quarts green tomatoes 2 quarts onion 3/4 cup salt 1 quart vinegar 3 cups brown sugar 1/2 cup pickling spiceDirectionsStep 1Coarsely chop the tomatoes and onions and add salt previously dissolved in sufficient water to cover the vegetables. Let stand 24 hours. Step 2 ...
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Lemon Meringue Pie
This is a special request recipe which Maw Maw found in the first cookbook (Robin Hood Flour Brand cookbook) she ever owned back when she was a child in 1964. IngredientsLemon Filling 1 1/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup cornstarch and 3 tablespoon of flour 1/4 tsp salt 1 1/2 cup ...
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