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Cajun Cooking for your anniversary?

Cajun Cooking

I’d like to cook something special for my anniversary dinner. Each year I pick recipes from the world and I thought this year we could try Cajun Cooking. The one who gives me something like “family recipes” (I mean a recipe that is not taken from the internet) gets 10 pts.

Thank you and hugs from Italy

Cajun Cooking

Traditional Cajun Cooking would include Turduckins (duck breast stuffed in a chicken stuffed in a turkey) & stuffed chickens. (Both are traditional French recipes long forgotten but rediscovered here in creole & cajun country)

With either, you would first de-bone the bird or ask your local butcher to do it for you(except for the wings), season the interior, then stuff with your choice of dressing. I like to stuff my birds with crayfish etoufee, Jambalaya(my favorite), dirty rice, Boudin, or something more “american” say Broccoli & Cheese rice casserole. Then I like to cook my bird in a clay pot.(I know that you can get your hands on a clay pot for sure in Italy!) Take root vegetables (potatoes, onions, shallots, carrots’ parsnips) & some mushrooms & place them on the bottom of the clay pot. Add a good full bodied red wine like Cabernet, merlot, sangiovese, granache or pinot noir (not chianti!) to the bottom to give a good flavor & add moisture. Place chicken on top of vegetables. Add fresh rosemary, garlic, sage & thyme then season appropriately with sea salt & fresh ground pepper. Cook at 375 for about 1 hour (get a meat thermometer)

DON’T FORGET TO SEASON THE INSIDE OF THE BIRD BEFORE STUFFING!!!!

Remove the bird onto a large cutting board & let cool for 10 minutes. Then with an extremely sharp knife slice the bird from side to side. This should create “Roulades” which should look like a meat circle filled with the stuffing. Season to taste & enjoy a true masterpiece!

For dessert make a white chocolate bread pudding complemented with a whiskey sauce.(recipe on the internet for bread pudding. Just add white chocolate!)
Or go for Bananas Foster
I am a manager at a Cajun Specialty Meat market & we sell about 1000 stuffed chickens every month. For more cooking instructions & ideas go to stuffedfoodstores.com

Because I think that you are in italy here are some leads on some prepackaged products that you can order; Zatatrains Jambalaya(the best), Tony Chaches creole seasonings. Paul Prudhommes seasonings (incredible)

Good Luck & happy anniversary.

Cajun Cooking

Coffee Contributes 31% Of Total Daily Antioxidants

“Coffee is the number one antioxidant molecule in the American diet,” claims expert on polyphenols at symposium of science writers

Dr. Vinson is Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. He spoke at a symposium, Nutrigenomics: The New Science of Genes, Nutrition, and Health. The educational event was held here to introduce science writers to nutrigenomics, the new study of how foods affect our genes and how individual genetic differences affect the way we respond to nutrients in foods.

The chemist said that chronic diseases cost our society over $200 billion per year in medical costs and lost productivity. He explained, “These diseases have a pathology that is initiated by free radicals. Recent epidemiology has shown that polyphenols consumed in foods may be the major agents responsible for their health benefits – not the antioxidant vitamins C and E as we’d all originally assumed. Unfortunately, measuring individual phenolic compounds is a difficult if not impossible task, due to the very large number – it’s 8000 and growing – of these compounds in plants. And that’s just one of the obstacles we encounter.

Dr. Vinson’s group accepted the challenge, “Our research group used market samples of common fruits, vegetables, spices, nuts, grains, oils and beverages to determine the total amount of phenols in foods and beverages using an analysis that measures the extract’s antioxidant activity. We also measured the quality of antioxidants in foods and beverages by means of an in vitro ‘heart disease in a test tube’ model.”

Dr. Vinson told the group that foods and beverages are better antioxidants than are antioxidant vitamins. He noted, “With the polyphenol content data and the USDA database of per capita food consumption, the contribution of each type of food to the average estimated intake of phenolic antioxidants was calculated for 2003. Total per capita phenolic antioxidants in the United States diet was 2.2 g. Polyphenols are the major antioxidants in foods and beverages, with the vitamins primarily being minor contributors. The beverage group produced the largest percentage of the total per capita intake of phenolic antioxidants – totaling 49%.”

Professor Vinson explained that “Coffee was the largest single contributor on a daily basis for the average American, contributing 31% of the total daily antioxidants. Coffee is high in phenolic acids and chlorogenic acid, and is the number one antioxidant molecule in the American diet.”

“But do high polyphenol foods and beverages act as antioxidants in the body?” he asked. “Coffee given to humans increases plasma antioxidant capacity, and the polyphenol metabolites act as antioxidants at the level of low density lipoprotein (LDL), decreasing its oxidizability, a possible benefit for slowing down the atherosclerosis process and lowering the risk of heart disease. Recent studies have shown that milk drunk in coffee does not inhibit the absorption of polyphenols in a cell and animal experiment, although recent research suggests that milk in tea interferes with biological effect and presumably antioxidant absorption. Other high polyphenol foods such as tea, chocolate and red wine have the same effects on plasma antioxidant capacity and LDL oxidation.”

Dr. Vinson said that polyphenols, including those in coffee, can also affect oxidative stress by acting both directly as antioxidants and indirectly by affecting cell signaling and gene expression. He concluded, “Polyphenols have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiproliferative, anti-angiogenic, antithrombic and vasorelaxive properties, which can affect disease and its pathology.”

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Cajun Recipes for my anniversary?

I’d like to cook something special for my anniversary dinner. Each year I pick recipes from the world and I thought this year we could have a cajun menu. The one who gives me something like “family recipes” (I mean a recipe that is not taken from the internet) gets 10 pts.

Thank you and hugs from Italy

Traditional Cajun recipes would include Turduckins (duck breast stuffed in a chicken stuffed in a turkey) & stuffed chickens. (Both are traditional French recipes long forgotten but rediscovered here in creole & cajun country)

DON’T FORGET TO SEASON THE INSIDE OF THE BIRD BEFORE STUFFING!!!!

Good Luck & happy anniversary.

Is this a good way to make shrimp gumbo?

ROUX—

5Tbs of butter and 5Tbs of flour. Melt butter fully and mix in flour. Stir until milk chocolate color. Mix in 2/3 cup of onion. Stir for a few minutes. Mix in 2/3 cup of celery and 1/4 cup of bell peppers. 2 cloves of chopped garlic – Or one, use to taste.

BROTH—

1.5 quarts of chicken broth — mix with roux and stir. Mix in desired ammout of Rotel Tomatos. Let cook for an hour. Add desired ammount cajun and file powder. Stir. Add in peppers and then seafood. Stir, let cook. Remove from heat. Serve.

you almost got it, the few things i would change is use vegetable oil instead of butter for the roux and you do have to constantly stir the roux or it will burn (could take about 30 minutes to get the right color)(do not use a nonstick pan) and you can add the onions, bellpepper and celery and garlic after you add the broth (i would use seasoned water or shrimp stock not chicken broth) cook this about an hour
and another thing i wouldn’t do is add tomatoes but i make a cajun gumbo and what you are doing is creole and either way is OK
also you just want to add the shrimp at the very end like 10 minutes before serving.

serve with rice in a bowl

another suggestion would be to add okra if it is availible in your area chop in small pieces and add 30 minutes before serving

White chocolate bacon cookies

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White chocolate bacon cookies

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How To Make Pecan Pie

http://www.CajunCookingTV.com/ -

Pecan Pie Recipe from the Cajun Recipes at Cajun Cooking TV. How to make pecan pie by Beryl Stokes. Beryl’s chocolate pecan pie recipe is easy yet it sure to thrill your family and guests.

For complete written directions, and more great Southern and Cajun recipes, go to -

http://www.CajunCookingTV.com/

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Need tips on cooking chicken in crawfish boil?

I know, being from Louisiana I should have been born knowing how to cook Cajun, lol! But both my grandmothers and my great-grandmother who were the best cooks in my family, died when I was in high school before I took an interest in cooking and I was just wondering if anyone could give me some tips.

Warning: I have never cooked anything without a microwave or oven but I am ready to try cooking on a stovetop!!!

1. Bless your sweet heart. Here are a bunch of Cajun and Southern recipes from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas & Florida for you:

http://www.crawfishcoofcentralflainc.com/Mme_Lisa_Recipe.html

2. Crawfish Broil:

http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,seasoning_of_boil_crawfish,FF.html

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And here are lots and lots of foods that I’m sure you will be interested in learning about:

Put the following into your "Favorites", or into your "My Documents".
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1. Foil-Pack Dinners-turn on your sound (video):

http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/cookingschool/videos/videoplayer.htm?vid=579

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2. Dinner recipe videos, turn on your sound and click this link:

http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/CookingSchool/Videos/DinnerVideos.htm

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3. Favorite Brand Name Recipes:

http://www.fbnr.com/finder/searchlists/134.htm

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Take a look at these recipes from Campbells:

http://www.campbellsoup.com/Supper_Bakes.asp

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20-Minute Meals:

http://www.bhg.com/bhg/slideshow/slideShow.jsp?slideid=/templatedata/bhg/slideshow/data/Quicktofixmealsunder20mins_ss_03022004.xml

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4. In a rush? Smithfield, Hormel, Armour, Tyson have packages of PRE-COOKED beef tips, roast, pot roast, pork roast, chicken, ham, meatload. Use this for your meat dish with a side dish or two of vegetables, rice, or potatoes. You will find these packages near the meat section, they are not frozen. Ask a clerk for help.
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5. Tyson’s fully cooked whole chickens are delicious. I serve them often with S&W canned sweet potatoes, Stove-Top dressing, microwave chicken/turkey gravy in jars, a canned vegetable, canned cranberry sauce, and frozen Pillsbury Microwave Biscuits which are better than I can make. A frozen pie defrosted and fully cooked. Perfect for one or two people at Thanksgiving or Christmas.
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6. Another thing you can do is cook in a slow cooker or a crock-pot. You put the meat into the crock-pot in the morning and it cooks all day long. The meal is ready at dinner time. Crock-pots can be bought at your grocery store, WalMart, Target, etc. BE SURE to read the booklet that comes with the crock-pot.
Here are some crock-pot recipes for you:
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Beef Recipes in Crock Pot (see other types of meats at the very bottom of this link):

http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/beef-crock-pot-recipes/index.htm

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Chicken Recipes in Crock Pot:

http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/chicken-crock-pot-recipes/index.htm

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TEXAS crock pot recipes:

http://www.texascook.com/crockpot/

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7. If you are in a hurry, go to your grocery store and pick up a roasted chicken that you can buy in the deli section. They also have side dishes such as veggies, salads, desserts, and etc.
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8. Frozen dinners are always a good choice. Our favorites are Stouffer’s, Marie Calendar’s, Michael Angelo’s, Boston Market’s. Just add a side dish, salad, or fruit salad. Desserts can be bought in the bakery section of your grocery store.
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9. Ragu Sauces- Italian (in jars, just pour it on).
Scroll down this screen, click a category and then click "Find Recipe" at the bottom of the screen:

http://www.eat.com/recipe_landing.asp

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10. Quick put together desserts:
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Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk videos-turn on your sound:

http://eaglebrand.com/videos.asp?v=fudge#video

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Kraft’s Chocolate Passion Bowl (video):

http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/cookingschool/videos/videoplayer.htm?vid=342

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From:

http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1813,152181-233204,00.html

8 MINUTE STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE
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Philidelphia Cream Cheese has ready to eat cheesecake Tubs:

http://www.kraftfoods.com/philly/readyToEat.html

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Video – New York Style Cream Topped Cheesecake:

http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/search/SearchResults.htm?searchtext=cheesecake&u2=cheesecake&scope=all&start=1&rsort=

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From:

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1937,150179-246192,00.html

FROZEN PEANUT BUTTER PIE-no bake
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Video – Pie Crust, How to Make and Bake:

http://www.cooking.com/recipes/videos.asp?no=28

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11. Tossed Salad (video):

http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-make-the-perfect-green-salad-5330

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Caesar Salad – chef style (video):

http://www.ifoods.tv/site/video.jsp?video=91

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Quick five minute Caesar Salad (video):

http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-make-a-Caesar-Salad-5311

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12. Guacamole Dip video (peppers can be left out if you wish):

http://www.5min.com/Video/how-to-make-guacamole-3880

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14. Chef Wan’s Recipes-Malaysia…in south east asia – pictures:
(Categories on the left hand side of the screen)

http://www.chef-wan.com.my/index.php?page=recipes

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15. Video On How To Cook A Rib Eye Steak (turn on your sound), click this link:

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-rib-eye-steak

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16. Ramen noodles recipes:

http://www.budget101.com/ramen_noodle_recipes.htm

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17. Look through these chicken & pasta recipes:

http://www.thatsmyhome.com/chickencoop/pasta.htm

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