Our cooking club needs food themes for this year. Any ideas?
Last year we tried Mexican recipes, Chinese recipes, Creole recipes, Slow Cooker recipes, and Tailgating recipes.
The ethnic themes are always fun, try greek, italian (there is more to italian cooking than pasta and red sauce), appetizers, wine and cheese tasting, favorite comfort food, favorite foods as a kid. A cookie or dessert party. Another idea is "What would I take to a picnic, a tropical theme, a pig or lamb roast. Your favorite wedding food theme. A night at the movies serving your favorite stars food. Good luck and sounds like fun.
What are some easy cajun and/or creole recipes?
I’m a college student living in an apt for the first time. I LOVE to cook, but I’m no chef. I need something easy and somewhat inexpensive.
I love seafood, especially shrimp and crab. I like chicken and pork as well but NO beef. And I know that creole and cajun food sometimes include crayfish but I dont have access to them in this small town. I also love spicy food. So if any recipes come to mind please share!! 
Creole and Cajun dishes are my favorites. You can always substitute shrimp for crawfish in your recipes. Here are some links that I saved:
Shrimp Etouffee
http://www.soulfoodandsoutherncooking.com/shrimp-etouffee-recipe.html
Jambalaya
http://www.chefrick.com/jambalaya/
Dirty Rice
http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/dirty_rice.html
Corn Maque Choux
http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=10000000258936
Okra Creole
http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=10000000352451
Crab Croquettes
http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/cajun_crab_croquettes.html
Shrimp Creole
http://www.chefrick.com/cajun-shrimp-creole/
Gumbo
http://www.gumbopages.com/food/soups/shr-crab-gumbo.html
New Cuisine or Recipe??
Is there a particular cuisine that you have never tried but would like to try it someday? How about a recipe?
I would like to try Cambodian, Tunisian or Portuguese cuisine, I have never had anything from these countries.
I would like to try cooking some Creole and Cajun foods, this is new territory for me but I love Creole dishes.
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BTW, Thanks for the recipes, they look yummy!
Great question! I would like to try some authentic & traditional Scandinavian dishes. Also, I’ve always wanted to try some Maori (NZ) dishes.
Recipe wise: would love to do up a good classic NE Crab Boil one of these days!
smithfield country hamCajun Navy beans & meatballs w creole celery p2
smithfield country ham brown gravy
Duration : 0:7:46
What is the name for the way I like my eggs?
I like two eggs put in a cup with salt and creole seasoning. Then mix the yokes and whites into just a light yellow liquid. Then pour in a pan and let it fry. When it is sturdy enough to flip, flip it over and let the liquidy top fry a bit, but keeping the inside just hot enough to turn into a jellylike texture, but not runny or really cooked.
I thought omelets had fillings in them, this is all egg. Just cooked "rare", if it were steak.
Sounds like an omelette to me, but I’m not sure!
Why do people imitate Gumbo recipe?
Im from New Orleans La, and every time I go out of town or in a city. I see some sort of restaurant advertising cajun creole food. Most of the time I check out the restaurant because I miss home so much I decided to try my so call home food. Needless to say it is horrendous. I been to 15 so call creole cajun food restaurants and none of them even compare to actually new orleans natives food.
First New Orleans food is not cajun but creole french cooking.
I see A lot of people ask for a gumbo recipe, and it just aggravates me, when they try to short stop our style of cooking. I feel as though if you are not going to cook the recipe from scratch, then your are not getting a new orleans taste of CUISINE, you are getting someone else cusine, I mean the whole point of cooking it is because you were craving for it right? However I just want to let these people know who loves gumbo but want the recipe to try and get it from the natives and not some online fake recipe. If you need my recipe or a native site I can give it to you. I just want people to respect our culture and food. And average gumbo take a day or a half. if you can cook gumbo in two or 6 hours it is not the real thing. Furthermore; lets not try to imitate other peoples culture. do it by the way it suppose to be done.
these are the things in a gumbo(shrimps, crabs, chicken, onions, celery, red, yellow, green peppers, okra, gizzards, oysters, tomatos and parsly. If you do not have all these things in your gumbo especially the seafood then you are not eating new orleans cusine rather than some other types of cusine but don’t put new orleans name to a cusine when it is not the orginal recipe
because they wanna make money just like everybody else in this troubled economy you gotta do what you gotta do
over riceTrinidadian French Creole: Part 1 – The Flavour of a Fading Creole
This video documents Trinidadian French Creole, a dying language, as it is spoken by some of its last speakers, in the community of Paramin in North Trinidad. It shows these speakers and their culture, in particular the food which they grow and their styles of cooking. This video is part of the Caribbean Indigenous and Endangered Languages website, co-sponsored by the Jamaican Language Unit/Unit for Caribbean Language Research, University of the West Indies, and UNESCO. http://www.caribbeanlanguages.org.jm
Duration : 0:6:14