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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

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.

What is ur hubby’s fav dinner?

I have a bf who is picky with vegetables but corn! He is from Louisiana and love cajun foods and seafoods but im getting tired of those foods! He also is crazy over meats and noodles such as alfred chicken, meatballs, cheese spaghetti, etc but I want try cook different and hope that he will love my cook…is there any good recipes? =D thanks!

Lord yes, honey, i do declare, my man loooves the spicy food too!!! I tell ya what, buttercup, try to throw on a little green peppers and onions on some italian sausages in the oven and see if he likes that. Also use paul prudhommes blackened seasoning, it works miracles, baby! If he dont like that, just let him settle with some popeyes chicken and a sam jackson beer, laws yes, we works hard in the kitchen and them men folk dont appreciate it! but give it a shot, butterbean, you never know. Godd luck curly sue!

The Magic of Chef Paul – Cooking Fish

Chef Paul gives pointers on cooking fish for the right length of time.

Duration : 0:1:33

Baking/Cooking- Cajun Seasonings

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authentic cajun cooking

Prudhomme, Paul Promotional cook book with history and recipes by Paul Prudhomme and Tabasco. Color and black and white photos. Undated circa 1995? Book: like new condition. pub date: 1995 publisher: McIlhenney format: Softcover sku: BCB771009 $8.95 Expected soon. [ click to pre-order ] or click

Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Louisiana Kitchen

Here for the first time the famous food of Louisiana is presented in a cookbook written by a great creative chef who is himself world-famous. The extraordinary Cajun and Creole cooking of South Louisiana has roots going back over two hundred years, and today it is the one really vital, growing regional cuisine in America. No one is more responsible than Paul Prudhomme for preserving and expanding the Louisiana tradition, which he inherited from his own Cajun background. Chef Prudhomme’s incredibly good food has brought people from all over America and the world to his restaurant, K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen, in New Orleans. To set down his recipes for home cooks, however, he did not work in the restaurant. In a small test kitchen, equipped with a home-size stove and utensils normal for a home kitchen, he retested every recipe two and three times to get exactly the results he wanted. Logical though this is, it was an unprecedented way for a chef to write a cookbook. But Paul Prudhomme started cooking in his mother’s kitchen when he was a youngster. To him, the difference between home and restaurant procedures is obvious and had to be taken into account. So here, in explicit detail, are recipes for the great traditional dishes–gumbos and jambalayas, Shrimp Creole, Turtle Soup, Cajun “Popcorn,” Crawfish Etouffee, Pecan Pie, and dozens more–each refined by the skill and genius of Chef Prudhomme so that they are at once authentic and modern in their methods. Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Louisiana Kitchen is also full of surprises, for he is unique in the way he has enlarged the repertoire of Cajun and Creole food, creating new dishes and variations within the old traditions. Seafood Stuffed Zucchini with Seafood Cream Sauce, Panted Chicken and Fettucini, Veal and Oyster Crepes, Artichoke Prudhomme–these and many others are newly conceived recipes, but they could have been

In cajun/creole cooking,what is a rouge?

The joke is that all Cajun bedtimes stories start with "First you make a roux…" A roux (pronounced roo) is a mixture of flour and oil cooked over medium heat. In Cajun or creole cooking a roux is cooked over a for 15-30 minutes until it is very brown. You have to keep stirring it and watching it carefully – it can go from chocolate brown to burned black in an instant. Use a very heavy (cast iron is best) pot or frying pan to avoid burning. Also be very careful not to splash any on yourself – Paul Prudhomme calls it Cajun napalm!

Cajuns tend to make their roux from vegetable oil and flour, while old Creole recipes call for butter and flour. A roux of vegetable oil and flour is easier to deal with than one of butter – the butter is much more likely to burn than the oil. The darker the roux is the less its thickening power. If the roux is used for seasoning (that dark taste can’t be duplicated any other way) you generally start with an equal amount of flour and oil. If you need the roux to thicken the dish you use twice as much flour as oil.

After the roux is cooked you generally stir in spices and "holy trinity" – chopped onion, celery and bell pepper and the recipe goes on from there.

Good luck cooking!

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