Cooking dinner for my gf parents...

Man that sounds like a sitcom. My coonass son. Good luck

You shouldn't have a problem with ingredients

I would make sure they will eat your ingredients..... And after thats cleared, consider fedex'n up some necessities.

Jacobs Andouille, Tasso, etc will keep without dry ice if needed. U can pack red beans, etc if u want.

I highly suggest you take your own seasonings - especially if ur blackening anything.

If you are shipping dry ice'd goods....Have any gumbo in the freezer u can heat and serve as an appetizer? Send some alligator tailmeat - do blackened alligator and a chicken/alligator sauce picant with a side of remoulade.

A nice blackened fish with a side of smoked chicken/andouille jambalaya would be a good taster for them.

sounds good to me, except it may be a bit of overkill with rice, serving jambalaya and red beans and rice. not to me, but maybe to people who don't eat down here on the reg

Layabout has a MAJOR point. Find out now if they keep Kosher. Not necessarily Orthodox. If they do, Tasso is out, shell fish are out most Louisiana sausages are out. You may find yourself having to resort to an old chicken sauce picante or some type of Kosher fish courtbouillon. Good luck.

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While that list all sounds good. You may want to consider limiting the amount of local cuisine you serve your guests. Too much of any cuisine can get boring. Depending on their length of stay, I wouldn't have it more then 2x for the whole trip. Just my two cents.

just grill her some catfish filets and top them with some spicy etouffee.

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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.