What are the best boxed/dehydrated Louisiana foods?

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Posted by Matisyeezy Those frozen ones with the sea monkeys and shite by Richard's. All of them. If I care enough to microwave it but not enough to cook it, I'm accepting it's gonna be shitty.

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I've never had any of the frozen LA dinners by Richard's (and others). They all just seem nasty and when some one up here at work heats one up, it usually smells like bad pussy.

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Savoies chicken and andouille gumbo is pretty good in a pinch.

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Is this a can or frozen? I'm not big on things like this. I like the ones were I add my own meat.

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Is this a can or frozen? I'm not big on things like this. I like the ones were I add my own meat

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You should change your topic. If you wanna go adding shite to make it palatable, you don't want it frozen. That shite is awful, and if I do it I know I will pay the price.

You want shite like jambalaya starters and such.

To be fair, they suck too.

Louisiana brand étouffée starter, in my opinion, is really good for what it is.


I know tons of restaurants that would benefit from using that instead of the slop they choose to serve.

In college I never had time (or learned) to make a good true jamabalaya, but I made the boxed Zatarain's stuff all the time.

It's definitely not as good, but if you buy a rotisserie chicken, debone it, boil the bones and skin to create a stock, use this for your water, cutup and onion, and toss everything in, it can be pretty damn good.

I dress up Zat's Dirty Rice at the camp all the time. Always a hit.

On lazy dinner nights, every once in awhile we'll take Zatarain's Black Eye Peas and Rice mix and make a quick rice mixture dish. Cook lean ground beef, onions, garlic, & bells until soft and add a tbsp of jar roux (for thickness and color) then add fresh raw broccoli florets and add rice/water and cook according to box. The last 5 mins of cooking time we put about 1/2 bag of frozen edamame in. It's a pretty tasty meal with little effort and takes less than 30 min.

Edit: occasionaly we'll dice some Savoie's Green Onion Smoked Sausage (or Krazy Kajun, Jalapeno, Hot Smoked Mix, etc.) and add that for some added meat flavor.

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In college I never had time (or learned) to make a good true jamabalaya, but I made the boxed Zatarain's stuff all the time.

It's definitely not as good, but if you buy a rotisserie chicken, debone it, boil the bones and skin to create a stock, use this for your water, cutup and onion, and toss everything in, it can be pretty damn good.

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Sounds like a salt bomb.

Zat's jamb isn't bad.