Any cajun recipes?
This is my favorite!
it is so good and delicious ^_^
SPICE-CRUSTED PORK TENDERLOIN WITH KIELBASA SAUSAGE GRAVY
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons all purpose flour
1/2 cup minced red bell pepper
1/4 cup minced onion
1 1/2 cups canned low-salt chicken broth
1/2 cup 1/4-inch cubes kielbasa sausage* (about 2 ounces)
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
2 tablespoons ground cumin
2 tablespoons ground coriander
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
24 ounces pork tenderloin, cut into 4 pieces
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
Preheat oven to 400°F. Melt butter in heavy small saucepan over medium-low heat. Add flour; cook until mixture is dark golden brown, stirring frequently, about 20 minutes. Add bell pepper and onion; sauté 3 minutes. Gradually whisk in broth. Add sausage and cayenne; increase heat and simmer 5 minutes, stirring often. Season with salt and pepper.
Mix cumin, coriander, salt, and pepper in medium bowl. Dredge pork in spices. Heat oil in heavy large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat. Add pork and brown on all sides, about 8 minutes. Transfer skillet to oven; roast pork until thermometer registers 160°F, about 10 minutes. Transfer to cutting board. Let stand 5 minutes. Slice pork 1/2 inch thick. Divide among 4 plates. Rewarm gravy. Mix in parsley. Pour gravy over pork and serve.
The left over meat is so good on a salad…yummy!
got to try gumbo jambalaya and alligator. YUMMYWhats a yummy Cajun Recipe? What is mainly Cajun food popular for?
CAJUN BOURBON CHICKEN
1 cup bourbon
1 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp paprika
pinch hot red pepper flakes
1 tablespoon molasses
3 cloves garlic, smashed
2 tablespoons freshly grated ginger
1 1/2 teaspoons each onion and garlic powder
6 each chicken thighs and drumsticks
salt and pepper, to taste
Combine all ingredients (except chicken) for marinade (may be processed in a blender). Set aside 1/2 cup of this marinade in a clean jar (do not use to marinate chicken – this portion will be used for basting the chicken during the grilling). Keep refrigerated.
Put marinade into a ziploc bag with chicken pieces and distribute evenly. Marinate chicken for 6-12 hours in refrigerator, turning occasionally.
Remove chicken from marinade and drain. Allow to sit at room temperature while grill heats up. Grill over medium high heat (grill open) for 5 minutes, then close grill and reduce heat; continue cooking over low heat, for 15-20 minutes, or until chicken is done (juices will run clear when pierced with a fork). Baste with fresh marinade every few minutes, turning chicken to cook both sides evenly.
Season with salt and pepper, to taste
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PEPPERONCINI STUFFED WITH CAJUN CRAB
MEAT
1 lb. cream cheese, room temperature
8 to 12 oz. crab claw meat, shredded
1 1/2 tablespoons Cajun seasoning
1 tablespoon hot sauce
1 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
36 pepperoncini
fresh parsley leaves, chopped
Cut the stem end off the pepperoncini and carefully scrape out the seeds. Set aside.
Beat the cream cheese in the bowl of a mixer with a paddle attachment. Add the crab and continue to mix. Add the Cajun seasoning, hot sauce and thyme; mix until blended.
Place mixture into a pastry bag and pipe into the seeded pepperoncini. Dip the cream cheese end of the pepperoncini in the chopped parsley.
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CAJUN MEATLOAF
2 teaspoons butter
1/2 large onion
1/2 cup green pepper, chopped
1 tsp salt
3/4 tsp cayenne pepper
1/2 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp freshly ground pepper
1/4 tsp ground cumin
1 lb lean ground beef
1 egg, beaten to blend
1/2 cup fine dry bread crumbs
1/2 cup catsup
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Melt butter in a heavy medium skillet over medium to low heat. Add next 7 ingredients and cook until vegetables are tender, about 10 minutes. Combine meat, egg, breadcrumbs, 1/4 cup catsup and Worcestshire sauce and form into a loaf in baking dish.
Bake 20 minutes. Spread top with remaining 1/4 cup catsup and bake for an additional 40 minutes.
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SPICY CAJUN PASTA
1 can black beans
1 red onion cut into long strips
2 cups chopped chourice
1 1 lb box penne pasta
2 cooked chicken breast
2 tablespoons Cajun seasoning
2 cups medium sized cooked shrimp
1 1/2 cups light cream
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
In large skillet, cook onion in butter for 2 minutes. Add chourice, Cajun spice, and black pepper. Cook for 10 minutes on medium heat. Add chicken breast, shrimp and cream and simmer until thickened.
Boil pasta according to package directions while sauce is simmering.
Finally, add black beans to sauce. Heat and toss pasta and sauce together. Serve.
JM
You Can Enhance your Love Life with Romantic Date Night Ideas
Spend one night out each week doing something fun and different. If you’re looking for a few good ideas to start a weekly tradition with your loved one, read on!
Play a Fun Board Game
There are a bunch of really romantic and sensual board games for couples that you will find in most games shops. You could also go with traditional games and add a romantic twist to them. For Scrabble, say, adapt it by creating the rule that all words spelled must be on the topic of love and romance.
Cook a Weekly Dish Together
You can alternate weeks. Try the Internet to find great recipes that can be printed out. Try the recipe together.
Movie Night in and out
This is the main stay of any romantic couple, so be sure to not neglect this one. So long as you are watching a good variety of interesting flicks, and cuddling up and smooching as you watch the movie together, you are doing just fine! Plan for some yummy snacks!
Check out to see if there is a drive-in movie theater within driving distance and if there is, go out often!
Spend a Romantic Evening in
Order in something delectable like Mexican, pamper yourselves in a steamy bath together complete with bubbles and candles, take turns massaging each other with scented body oils and of course, make delirious love. If you are not doing this on a regular basis—why not?
Go House Browsing
The women especially will love this! Take a casual drive, or walk in a neighborhood you consider ideal and dream a little. Together, pick out your favorite dream house. On the weekends you might take this one step further and visit open houses. Just be sure to set the ground rules first, (i.e. this would be my fondest dream with you….)
Go Extravagant with a Night out On the Town
Every good love life needs a little of this.Catch an independent film or attend a street fair, kick up your heals at a square dance, or sit in on a new book reading.
Gaze on a Star and Name it
Go out for a country ride and lay down a warm blanket. Gaze up into the sky and search for a star! Go on-line and register your name for your star and dedicate it to your relationship!
Learn Something Fascinating Together
Take a new class together, such as: Cajun cooking, Chinese brush painting or Early American Folk pottery.
Enjoy a Visit to a Museum
Museums are not all stuffy. Look for new experiences such as a wax museum, cultural digs museum, ancient artifacts museum, war memorabilia museum or any other type that might interest you both.
Enjoy More Fun Together
Go fishing, play snooker, try a new sport like volleyball.
Visit New Sights within your City
Contact your visitor’s bureau and look through pamphlets for new ideas on different aspects of your city that you can visit together. Make a list of “must-see’s” and then tick them off one by one. Keep a scrapbook of your many adventures.
Abbas Abedi
http://www.articlesbase.com/dating-articles/you-can-enhance-your-love-life-with-romantic-date-night-ideas-65344.html
Cajun Cooking – 10 Unique Features Of Cajun Food
In today’s fast paced life where we are all rushing to scratch sometime for ourselves, Cajun is one country where till date cooking is considered a precious form of art. While there are no particulars in its recipes, a key ingredient is love & emotions. Many people in the country and elsewhere try to imitate the real Cajun flavor but are not able to do so. One reason might be that there are no defined quantities. Yet another major reason is that one must have a sincere feel to cook & serve the best in order to gain that excellence.
Cajun cooking includes a lot more than mere lagniappe from the pantry or the spice cabinet. Here are some fascinating facts about Cajun cooking:
1. Cajun cooking has very few exact recipes.
These recipes are often focused on taste factor that is more oft based on an individual’s decision. That means no measurements are fixed.
2. The mood of the cook decides the taste.
Try cooking a Cajun dish 4 times in a day and you shall find that every time it shall taste a bit different. The hidden spice of these dishes is the mood of the cook. Cook it happily and dish turns out ‘yum’. The moment you cook angrily, it shall become hot & spicy and might lead to the rage of the ones who eat it.
3. Present it with a ‘Bam.’
Remember Emeril Lagasse. He often relates some experience or story with his dishes and whenever he presents them, he does it with a “Bam!” This kicks off some special taste buds among the people and they relish the food all the more.
4. Meet with the person’s heart & soul.
Cajun cooking believes that good food is all about meeting their heart & soul. Love, affection & a feeling to serve are the hidden ingredients of Cajun cooking. This also explains as to why some southern cooked dishes are called ‘soul food’. Remember the New Orlean delicacies – Well the place itself is located in the Deep South.
5. Grab the real & right ingredients.
Cooking Cajun food outside New Orlean region at time can be a major challenge. This is because its ingredients are pretty hard to find. It seems just impossible to come across fresh spices & seasonings that are indispensable to most Cajun foods. Other hard nut to crack is locating andouille sausage and fresh crawfish during the mid of Michigan winter.
6. Visit the nearest specialty store for the right ingredients.
In case you are really interested to cook Cajun food at home, watch for the right ingredients in the specialty food shops. Also there are shops where you can place special orders and get your list done. The international food sections at some grocery stores stock limited Cajun seasonings. However, these sources are very few.
7. Add a little jazz to set the mood.
Once you are through with the requisites, charge up the environment with some jazz and glare to set your mood as well as for those whom you are serving.
8. Cajun cooking takes time so be patient and chalk out some of your schedule for it.
The best of Cajun delicacies require substantial time for simmering. One must have the patience and schedule the cooking accordingly. Assure yourself that the food would be done in time and I do not need to rush. There are ways to see when the food is done. It would be great to try these means. One must have a first hand experience of the same, rest the stories might be mere myths.
9. Cajun cooking is an emotional experience.
This type of cooking judges your talent, certifies your patience and sometimes charges up your energy levels. It is surely an experience worth trying.
10. Cajun food enlists some of the richest delicacies on the planet.
Excelling the art of cooking would put you through slavery of your taste buds for years together. Try these to become one of the earnest slaves!
Abhishek Agarwal
http://www.articlesbase.com/cooking-tips-articles/cajun-cooking-10-unique-features-of-cajun-food-708792.html