Okay!!! So you want cajun food..
Well have I got the recipes for you.
They came from a cookbook that I found
at my parents home.
It belonged to my Dad's oldest sister.
Not sure how long my dad had it or how
he got it...but it's very interesting to
read some of the recipes in there.
So, cajun is what I found..and cajun is
what I'll share....But first a short history.
New Orleans has long been the paradise of American
gourmets, not only because of the sophisticated cooking
compounded of French technique imported at it's golden age,
the best of Spanish dishes,
the touch of African Magic,
and some rare secrets learned from the Indians,
but also because its waters furnish the finest fish and seafood,
and it's wild rice marshes
and forests swarm with game.
But all of Louisiana does not eat alike.
There are two other kinds of meals besides those
elaborate ones of New Orleans -
country or plantation style, and cajun.
The cajuns are descendants of the French-Canadians
and their cooking is even more French than that of
New Orleans.
The Cajuns still speak french.
They live close to the earth and the "redbones"
who subsist in the bayous on crawfish,
called craw-daddy and crawl-daddy,
alligator tail, and blue catfish.
So with that in mind.....
Tastebuds beware.....
Some of these are truly cajun..