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Best Cajun Recipe Book or Website?
Posted on 5/26/16 at 8:49 am
Posted on 5/26/16 at 8:49 am
I'm looking to learn some more cajun cooking recipes. Preferably one that wont tell me to use tomatoes in jambalaya or gumbo 
EDIT: Yes, I already know about the TD Recipe book
EDIT: Yes, I already know about the TD Recipe book
This post was edited on 5/26/16 at 9:11 am
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Posted on 5/26/16 at 9:18 am to Delacroix
Posted on 5/26/16 at 9:20 am to Delacroix
Gumbo Pages
Real Cajun Recipes
Great Cajun Cooking
A Cajun Family's Recipe Collection
Raised on a Roux
Real Cajun Recipes
Great Cajun Cooking
A Cajun Family's Recipe Collection
Raised on a Roux
This post was edited on 5/26/16 at 9:23 am
Posted on 5/26/16 at 9:21 am to Delacroix
What a good question...there are many (subtle, but real) regional differences in Cajun cooking, rather than 'one true' version. My bayou style is often wildly different than the prairie stuff. So my advice is to get several Cajun cookbooks, not just one.
Some good ones:
--the Prudhomme family cookbook: LINK
--Donald Link's "Real Cajun": LINK
--Marcelle Bienvenue's "Who's Your Mama...", both volumes: LINK
--Alzina Toups' "Cajun Joy" (long out of print, but used copies still float around)
Those are a good start...
Some good ones:
--the Prudhomme family cookbook: LINK
--Donald Link's "Real Cajun": LINK
--Marcelle Bienvenue's "Who's Your Mama...", both volumes: LINK
--Alzina Toups' "Cajun Joy" (long out of print, but used copies still float around)
Those are a good start...
Posted on 5/26/16 at 9:24 am to hungryone
Plantation Cookbook by the Junior League of New Orleans
Posted on 5/26/16 at 10:05 am to Stadium Rat
for true Cajun cookbooks w/ recipes, hard to beat Marcelle Bienvenu
she's the female version of Paul Prudhomme
she's the female version of Paul Prudhomme
Posted on 5/26/16 at 10:19 am to Delacroix
Posted on 5/26/16 at 10:22 am to Baers Foot
Posted on 5/26/16 at 10:52 am to Stadium Rat
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Plantation Cookbook by the Junior League of New Orleans
I love the book, Rat, but I don't think it's a Cajun cookbook.
I suggest Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen cookbook, but in doing so, I recommend considering the amounts of cayenne and other peppers added to the dishes. In most cases, the spice mixture is fine, but with the jambalaya recipe, there is entirely too much pepper and it must be cut way down.
You can find many of his recipes on his website, though they all use the Magic seasonings rather than spice mix in the cookbook. The recipes in the cookbook are better in my opinion. His chicken gumbo recipe is a bit different on the website, but I believe we have the recipe from the book in the TD recipe thread or book. It's on the labelle cuisine website.
Posted on 5/26/16 at 11:00 am to Gris Gris
The encyclopedia of cajun and creole cuisine by John Folse.
Pretty much all of the recipes can be found on his website if you don't want to buy the book.
Pretty much all of the recipes can be found on his website if you don't want to buy the book.
Posted on 5/26/16 at 11:53 am to KarlMalonesFlipPhone
quote:Love this book.
The encyclopedia of cajun and creole cuisine by John Folse.
There's 120 page detailed history of Louisiana at the beginning of the book.
I'm currently reading it.
Posted on 5/26/16 at 4:09 pm to Delacroix
Louisiana Lagniappe
Here's one to add. When I was a child growing up in South Louisiana in the 70s-80s, there weren't many homes that didn't have a copy of this one - I'm talking cajuns from Evangeline, St. Landry and Lafayette parishes - that should say something...
Here's one to add. When I was a child growing up in South Louisiana in the 70s-80s, there weren't many homes that didn't have a copy of this one - I'm talking cajuns from Evangeline, St. Landry and Lafayette parishes - that should say something...
Posted on 5/26/16 at 4:51 pm to Cailloue Pitre
Mercedes Vidrine published recipes in the Opelousas Daily World. My grandmother clipped them from the paper and affixed them to index cards. When she passed, I got her collection of recipes.. Included are her index cards.. Hundreds and hundreds, dating back 20-30 years.
This post was edited on 5/26/16 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 5/26/16 at 4:52 pm to Hoodoo Man
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The encyclopedia of cajun and creole cuisine by John Folse.
Love this book.
There's 120 page detailed history of Louisiana at the beginning of the book.
I'm currently reading it.
Me as well. got it for christmas, excellent book.
Posted on 5/26/16 at 4:55 pm to bdevill
That's pretty darn cool.
Posted on 5/26/16 at 5:54 pm to bdevill
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Mercedes Vidrine published recipes in the Opelousas Daily World
That's correct bedevil. Was born and raised from Opelousas - moved since. Had a brother that worked at the Daily World. I can remember mom and her friends picking up her cookbooks and other items from Dorothy Dunbar's bookstore - way back when...
Posted on 5/26/16 at 6:21 pm to Delacroix
Posted on 5/26/16 at 8:40 pm to Delacroix
Junior League of Lake Chas cook book called Pirates Pantry for a SWLA perspective. It's such diverse range of ideas and recipes. Paul Prudhomme and Marcella Bienvenue has to be near the top and would be my go to.
Posted on 5/26/16 at 11:55 pm to LSUEnvy
quote:My mom's from Welsh and this cookbook has a bunch of recipes that are just like her family's recipes.
Junior League of Lake Charles cook book called Pirates Pantry for a SWLA perspective. It's such diverse range of ideas and recipes. Paul Prudhomme and Marcella Bienvenue has to be near the top and would be my go to.
Posted on 5/27/16 at 12:06 am to Stadium Rat
Still the best cookbook I've ever owned, passed down from my mom who's had it since 1985. I learned how to make Cajun/Creole/South Louisiana food with it. It covers all the basics then some of Cajun dishes...can't recommend it enough.
This post was edited on 5/27/16 at 12:07 am
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