re: Cooking dinner for my gf parents...

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They eat anything including sausage and shellfish.

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That's great. You have a lot of leeway. I agree with the comments regarding hot spices. I'd go low on those unless you know already that they like peppery foods. Too much pepper to folks who aren't used to it will ruin the dish for them and they don't have to be hot to be good.

Yeah, I'd nix beans. That wouldn't excite me when I'm looking forward to Louisiana foods. I think most Yanks think of seafood when they think Louisiana though jambalaya would be good. They certainly think of gumbo and if I were choosing between jamba and that, I'd go with gumbo. Lots of rice there. And, I'd do something with crawfish. Etouffee would be preferable, but crawfish pie would suffice and be quite good. Or, even a crawfish cardinale in puffed pastry. You could do small ones for apps, possibly, have a cup of gumbo, shrimp remoulaude and jamba with a good salad and French bread. Something along those lines would be a treat for some yanks in my most humble opinion.

ETA: You could also do crawfish cornbread as the bread for the meal. I don't think that's the best way to try crawfish for the first time, but at least, they can say they had it.