I Love To Entertain Friends But I Hated To Clean Up Until I Bought A New Stainless Kitchen Steel Sink
Having friends over to cook and hangout is a favorite thing of mine to do. We get together, cook and watch our favorite team. There are lots of times where we don’t stop until the early morning hours. At that point, I usually don’t feel like cleaning up. My stainless steel kitchen sink has sure made a difference in that department. It takes all the worry about leaving something until the next day and it leaving a stain. When you use stainless steel kitchen sinks stains are not a worry. That is not the case with a porcelain sink. So if you entertain a lot like me, then go to MR Direct online. They will have you fixed up in no time flat.
what exactly are clams?
and how do they taste? I am curious because I was watching food network and they had a show where the guy was trying fried clams and I was just curious to try them. I am not a big seafood fan but I like cajun shrimp and tilapia and crab cakes.
and to this jackass who said oysters, I didn’t ask you all that so you could have kept that dumb ass answer to yourself.
and you spelled it wrong!
A clam is a kind of mollusc that has a shell divided into two pieces called valves; in other words, a clam is a bivalve mollusc.The word "clam" has no real taxonomic significance in biology. However in the USA the word can sometimes be used to mean any bivalve mollusc. It can also be used to mean a bivalve other than an oyster, mussel, or scallop, and that has a more-or-less oval shape, or a freshwater mussel.
The word clam is also very often used to mean any one of many edible bivalve species which live buried in sand, hence, "digging for clams" or clam digging. Not all edible clams are round or oval in shape: the razor clam has an elongated shell whose shape suggests a straight razor.
In October 2007 an Arctica islandica clam caught off the coast of Iceland was discovered to be at least 405 years old, and was declared the world’s oldest living animal by researchers from Bangor University.
A clam’s shell consists of two valves which are connected by a hinge joint and a ligament that can be external or internal. Two adductor muscles close the shells. The clam has no head, and usually has no eyes, (scallops are a notable exception), but a clam does have kidneys, a heart, a mouth, and an anus.
Clams, like most molluscs, also have open circulatory systems, which means that their organs are surrounded by watery blood that contains nutrients and oxygen. Clams eat plankton, and they themselves are eaten by small sharks and squid.
In culinary use, the term "clam" most often refers to the hard clam Mercenaria mercenaria but it may refer to several other species such as the soft-shell clam, Mya arenaria. Clams can be eaten raw, steamed, boiled, baked or fried; the method of preparation depends partly on size and species. Clam chowder is a popular soup in the U.S. and Canada. In Italy, clams are often an ingredient of mixed seafood dishes, or are eaten together with pasta.
The Maxima clam Tridacna maxima, a species of giant clam, is popular with saltwater aquarium hobbyists.
The Moche people of ancient Peru worshiped the sea and its animals. They often depicted clams in their art.
Hope this helps! =)
Some unique Cajun Food ?
…About 5 years ago my wife & I visited New Orleans & took a side trip to the Bayou Country. I love spicy food & felt like I was in Paradise then. I recently had a craving for some spicy Cajun snacks & I ordered Simply Cajun pickled chicken eggs + Simply Cajun pickled quail eggs + Simply Cajun polish sausage over the internet. I also discovered ( but did not order ) something called turducken ( which I understand is turkey stuffed with duck, chicken & sometimes creole sausage ? ) ??—Can anyone tell me what these items taste like ? Are they considered delicacies ? Are they aquired Tastes? Is Simply Cajun a good authentic brand or is there a better brand ? What does turducken taste like ? Does turducken taste good ? Lastly….does anyone know any good websites where similar Cajun food can be purchased ? What is the best website ? Are there other good Cajun foods you would recommend ?….And does anyone know of any Cajun supermarkets on Long Island, New York ? —-Thanks
I’m glad that you are a fan of our cuisine. It is mighty tasty. I hope that this will help. Turducken is amazing, it is tender and full of flavor, holiday favorites! I highly recommend it. Although I really can’t describe it for you other than that it’s great! I don’t know much about cajun stores in New York, but I know some things that will help you cook. Tony Chachere’s seasoning is a staple in every kitchen in Louisiana, it is a great start for seasoning anything! They also make a roux mix ( the base for gumbo) which has a great recipe for an amazing authentic gumbo. (although feel free to add lib and make it your own gumbo). You can also order riceland crawfish to be shipped which are farm raised here and they too have a great recipe for a great Etouffee……. when cooking with crawfish never use China crawfish the flavoring and the texture is not what you are looking for and it is much better to use the "real" thing. The best cookbooks that I can recommend for you are anything by Paul Prudomme, it’ll knock your socks off!!! Prepare to cook for some time, but open some wine have some fun and the time the food takes to prepare will pay off, greatness takes time, even in the kitchen.
Here is a great recipe for BBQ shrimp–it is one of my favorites, but ya gotta have the Tony’s to make it one of the most amazing things you will ever put in your mouth!
3-4 pounds of Prawn Shrimp ( it is important they are prawns)
4 sticks of butter
2 large bottle of Zesty Italian Dressing
1 jar Pepper Corns
Pepper Corns with a grinder
1 large jar of minced garlic
Tony’s Seasoning
cut the butter into cubes and put it in a large deep pan, generously cover the butter in garlic, (don’t be shy about the garlic-it’s a huge part of what makes cajun food what it is), place prawns on top of this, add a little more garlic on top of prawns, pour in dressing, place pepper corns generously through out the dish, then grind at least half of the grinder of peppercorns over the dish evenly, add tony’s to taste ( it’s spicy!!!) Cover with tin foil, place in oven on 350 until shrimp turn bright pink! Don’t let them over cook!!!
Get plenty of french bread, place in the center of the table, get bowls, and enjoy!!!! Make sure to get plenty of the "sauce" to enjoy with your shrimp and bread, it is amazing!!!
Good luck with your cooking adventures.
Cajun Food in the Twin Cities?
A buddy of mine is craving some good Cajun Food and lives in the Twin Cities area, any suggestions?
Use the two links below to find where the nearest one is and get customer reviews sometimes too.
www.yelp.com
www.kudzu.com
I lived in the south and I am in CA now…..so I usually have to make it my self………..
Wall Mart Super Centers with the full grocery store…..have the boudin and craw fish…….and the southern spices to make your gumbos and etufees……….mmmmmmmm
Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Louisiana Kitchen
< P> 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.< /P> < P> 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.< /P> < P> 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.< /P> < P> < I> Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Louisiana Kitchen< /I> 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
Is there such a thing as Surf and Turf Jambalaya?
You know, steak and seafood with a Cajun style twist?
Any expert chefs out there who can give me a recipe?
I am not an expert chef, but I am a big fan of Jambalaya and watched many an expert chef on Food Network.
The whole point of Jambalaya is a catch-all of various meats and rice and veggies. Its sort of whatever is left over. Most common meats are sausage (like andouille), chicken and shrimp or crawfish. I don’t see why you couldn’t use beef too if you wanted. Zatarain’s makes an excellent box mix – just add the meat of your choice. If you wanted to use beef, sausage or chicken, I recommend partially searing it before adding it to the mix – you’ll get a nice color and flavor that way. The box has directions for when to add the shrimp (or crawfish).
While this is not Jambalaya, you could certainly use cajun seasoning on steak and shrimp kabobs on the grill and that would be quite delicious. Just be sure to keep the meats separate since their cooking times are radically different!
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The perfect Roux. This is a great way to make a sometimes hard to do Roux. Put it in the oven!!!!
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I want to win him over with food?
My boyfriend is from Albania. He once said that nobody can cook like his mother and I want to show him that I can cook, but, I am creole and I only cook creole dishes, american dishes and soul food. Where can I find an authentic Albanian recipe?
Chicken With Walnuts (Pule me arra)
500 gr. Chicken
3-4 tablespoons butter
? cup of tea peeled walnuts
5-6 cloves garlic, crushed
pepper
sail
1-2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons vinegar
5-6 cups water
? Simmer chicken in water seasoned with salt to taste until tender, about 1 hour. Remove chicken from cooking water, reserving 1-cup stock. Cool chicken slightly, then cut into 4 portions.
? Melt 2 tablespoons butter in large skillet. Add chicken pieces and saute until lightly browned. Remove chicken pieces and keep warm.
? Add remaining 2 tablespoons butter. Add flour.
? Cook and stir until lightly browned. Add reserved stock, stirring constantly to avoid lumps. Simmer over low heat until heated through, about 5 minutes. Spoon sauce over chicken pieces.
Baked Lamb with Yogurt (Tave kosi)
1,5 kg lamb leg or shoulder
Salt,
pepper
? cup butter
2 tablespoons rice
1 kg yogurt
5 eggs, beaten
1 tablespoon flour
? Cut meat into 4 serving pieces. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Dot with ? cup butter and bake at 350 degrees, basting now and then with pan juices, about 40 minutes, or until well browned.
? Stir rice into pan juices. Remove baking pan from oven and set aside while preparing yogurt sauce.
? Combine yogurt with salt and pepper to taste. Stir in eggs until smooth. Set aside.
? Melt remaining ? cup butters and adds flour. Saute until smooth. Add yogurt mixture and stir until smooth.
? Pour yogurt sauce in baking pan, stirring it with meat pieces, and bake at 375 degrees 45 minutes. Serve hot.
Fried Meatballs (Qofte te Ferguara)
Serve these hot with French fries or mashed potatoes.
? kg ground meat (lamb, beef or chicken)
1 slice stale bread, broken up
2 tablespoons chopped feta cheese
1 union, finely grated
Salt, pepper
Crushed dried mint leaves
? cup flour
1 cup oil
? Combine meat, bread, feta cheese, onion, salt, pepper and mint to taste. Form into ?-inch thick patties, cylinders or balls. Roll in flour and fry in oil heated to 350 to 365 degrees.
Lamb without vegetable from Permeti
500 gr. Lamb
3-4 tablespoons butter
1-2 large unions (sliced)
? tablespoon flour
1 teacup milk
parsley
2 eggs
1 grain lemon-juice
sail
pepper
? Mix lamb with butter and onions together. Cook and stir until lightly browned.
? Roll in flour, stir some times, then add milk and a little water.
? Simmer over low heat until heated through.
? Remove from heat. Let cool and roll in eggs and lemon-juice.
? Stirring eggs and lemon-juice in chinaware, with a little cold water and rolling in gravy of meat.
? Mix this stock with lamb and roll in butter and cutting parsley and in the end sail pepper.
? Serve it its sauce.
Vine leaves stuffed with lemon and eggs
150 gr. pig salmagundi
150 gr. veal salmagundi
50 gr. Polished rice
3 unions, finely grated
fennel, finely grated
a little grease, finely grated
vine leaves
2 lemons
4 soupspoons butter
3 soupspoons
flour 4 yolk of eggs
garniture
salt
pepper
? Mix together in a bowl rice salmagundi, unions, fennel, salt, pepper, 50 gr. Cool water.
? Scald vine leaves. This mixture roll up in vine loaves.
? Put those inside a pot and insert 1 ? lemon-juice and water till pour all the components. Bring to boil. Set aside.
? Melt butter and add flour. Add a little juice. Bring to boil.
? Mix the eggs and remaining flour. Simmer for few minutes.
? Serve with sauce and tomatoes garniture.
Baked lamb with water-melon
500 gr. Lamb
? teacup oil
10-15 small unions
500 gr. Potatoes
10 carrots
2-3 pieces cerely
1-2 biting pepper
parsley, finely grated
salt
pepper
1 laurel leafage
? Cut meat into 4-5 serving portions. Roast meat in oil heated, until lightly browned.
? Fry unions in oil as usually, add sauce, 2 glasses with hot water, salt and pepper.
? Simmer meat over low heat not until in the end.
? All the other vegetables and fry in a large skillet and then put those in a baked.
? Pour the meat and the remaining gravy of meat, biting pepper, finely grated, and laurel.
? Simmer those over a low heat and then bake those.
? Serve hot with vegetables and the juice.
Turkey-cock with corn bread
1 small turkey-cock
4-5 fresh unions
100 gr. Butter
salt
pepper
1 corn bread
1 lemon
Prepare turkey-cock.
Rub turkey-cock with salt, pepper, butter and lemon.
Roast it and dot with its juice.
Fry a small of butter with fresh unions, finely grated, then add juice, a little water and simmer. Crush corn bread.
Roll in the juice.
Boil it several times.
Put pap on a plate and cut turkey-cock into pieces. Serve hot.
Lamb entrails roasted in a spit
Entrails of lamb
1 pair intensive lamb
marjoram
salt
pepper
oil or ? coffee-cup butter
1 lemon
? Clean lamb entrails very well.
? Put intensive lamb in a bowl, and mix with salt, pepper and marjoram.
? Then pour a little oil.
? Cut intensive lamb, lungs, livers, glands, grease into small square forms.
? Put in a bowl and mix with salt and pepper just like intensive lambs.
? Spit in a rod the entrails, then heart, and repeat this ordering, till in the end. With one of the intensive lambs cover completely all those.
? Tie the intensive lamb in a such manner that it can’t liberate during the bake. Dot during the bake with a mixture of oil-butter-lemon-juice.
Fricassee (Tasqebap)
500 gr. A leg of lamb
3 tablespoons oil
tomatoes
2-3 unions (sliced)
1 glass wine
1 foliage laurel
sail
pepper
? Cut meat into small pieces. Simmer unions over low heat until heated through. Add meat and stir until lightly browned.
? Roll in wine, then add sauce, sail, pepper, laurel, a little water and simmer over low heat.
Cookies in Syrup (Sheqerpare)
2 cups sugar
? cup butter, softened
2 eggs
2 cups flour
? teaspoon baking soda
? cup water
? teaspoon vanilla extract
2 to 3 whole cloves
? Mix 1-cup sugar and butter in bowl. Add yolks and stir until smooth. Add flour and baking soda and still until soft dough forms.
? Roll out dough. Cut into 2-inch rounds. Place on baking sheets and bake at 350 degrees until pale gold, 20 minutes.
? Meanwhile, make syrup. Bring remaining 1-cup sugar and water to boil in saucepan and cook until syrup spins a long thread, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove from heat and season with vanilla and cloves to taste.
? Remove cookies from oven when golden and cool. Pour hot syrup over cookies. Serve at room temperature.
Halvah with butter
600 gr. Flour
450 gr. Butter
150 gr. Almonds
1 kg sugar
cinnamon
lemon
? Make syrup. Mix 1 ? water, lemon-juice, sugar. Bring to boil. Set aside.
? Melt butter and put it over low heat.
? Fry almonds, add flour, then add syrup. It’s ready.
Do you like Cajun food?
Like Etouffee, Crawfish, Jambalaya and so on… All hot and spicy of course.
If so what’s your favorite?
I don’t really have a favorite I like it all 
I like some of the shrimp dishes, but I’m not big on the Cajun spices that much. I have only had cajun food a couple of times. I don’t remember the dishes name. It is one of the least of my favorites.