salsalady
eXtreme Business
Fun facts:
-I have so many cajun cookbooks I've lost count.
-The first meal I ever learned to make on my own was a jambalaya.
-I can make a perfect roux after 20 beers.......with my eyes closed.
-Real cajun food isn't pretty....but tastes better than any other food on the planet.
-Paul Pruhdomme and Justin Wilson are household names here at the Circle-H
YAY CAJUN!!
Well, I ain't skeerd!
Hummmm, Yeah Cajun, I think I could so something like that.
<hope SL doens't find out that i dated a Cajun Lady in college>
let's see <opening firdge> chicken, oysters, Champagne, check check check. I think I have an idea.......
I'm so screwed for this one if it's Cajun- Pauly, can I borrow 1 or 10 of your cookbooks?
well after making redeye gravy without the coffee, I'd probably do something like make jambalaya without okra or something.
I can do a mean roux, so at least that parts covered, and I've seen Emeril's holy trinity stuff, as previously mentioned... the rest would have to be following a recipe since I haven't had any experience with Cajun cooking.
Hubby's spent a little time in N'Awleens, but I don't think making the perfect Hurricane will secure a win by itself.
It's more about the STYLE of cooking than it is about authenticity. If it was, then all the entries would look the same. I think you know more about cajun food than you think. Someone that can create those wondeful sauces that I've tried has a heart in the bayou to be sure!
P.S. I hate okra and do NOT put it in my jambalaya......SO THERE!!!
Thanks, Pauly, you're a sweetheart...... and YAY!!! No Okra!
There's more than one way to thicken a gumbo!
I usually use gumbo file.
I don't believe in all my cajun/creole life that I've ever had okra in my jambalaya. It's either in seafood gumbo, fried or stewed.
SEE!!! There you go! I don't even know to put okra in gumbo instead of jambalaya! I'm so screwed for this one!
Time to make another rule for self- "if you've never cooked Cajun before, you should sit this one out".
Salsalady if you can make an awsome roux well now, that's half the battle. I may have to go for a drive in the country to keep it real cajun. Like my former girl friends daddy used to say for true ragin cajun flavor you cna't beat opossum on the half shell, that's Armadillo any where else. Taste like chicken!!