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Cheese in boudin
Posted on 2/27/22 at 2:08 pm
Posted on 2/27/22 at 2:08 pm
Has anyone ever heard of "boudin" being used to mean "cheesy rice"? Or even heard of boudin links with cheese in them?
I ran into this at a restaurant in Indiana opened by Louisiana expats, years ago. I'm not from Louisiana but lived there for a decade, so this was huge - food in Indiana is not very highly seasoned. I was so excited to see boudin on the menu, but it was ... cheesy rice. Literally a bowl of rice mixed with a mac-and-cheese quantity of cheese, with some onion and seasonings. It's not that it was bad - it's cheese, it's rice - I just couldn't understand why they were calling it boudin. (I should have asked, but everyone was so happy for me to be eating "real Cajun food.")
I'll go a year or two without thinking about this at all, and then it'll come back to me and haunt me all over again.
I ran into this at a restaurant in Indiana opened by Louisiana expats, years ago. I'm not from Louisiana but lived there for a decade, so this was huge - food in Indiana is not very highly seasoned. I was so excited to see boudin on the menu, but it was ... cheesy rice. Literally a bowl of rice mixed with a mac-and-cheese quantity of cheese, with some onion and seasonings. It's not that it was bad - it's cheese, it's rice - I just couldn't understand why they were calling it boudin. (I should have asked, but everyone was so happy for me to be eating "real Cajun food.")
I'll go a year or two without thinking about this at all, and then it'll come back to me and haunt me all over again.
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Posted on 2/27/22 at 2:16 pm to cheeseboudin
I always see boudin balls with cheese in them. Not necessarily the links and I dont recall seeing boudin and cheese in a bowl as a dish
Posted on 2/27/22 at 2:26 pm to Deactived
Market Basket has pepperjack links.
Posted on 2/27/22 at 2:57 pm to cheeseboudin
Pepper Jack cheese in boudin balls is common.
But the answer to this question is definitely no:
But the answer to this question is definitely no:
quote:
Has anyone ever heard of "boudin" being used to mean "cheesy rice"?
Posted on 2/27/22 at 3:06 pm to Epaminondas
That's what's been throwing me. Boudin plus cheese in some form, that's one thing. This was like ... boudin made with cheese instead of pork.
Posted on 2/27/22 at 3:07 pm to cheeseboudin
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This was like ... boudin made with cheese instead of pork.
Then you don't have boudin.
Posted on 2/27/22 at 3:17 pm to gumbo2176
Kartschners started with the jalapeño cream cheese in the link this year and they are killer on the pit.
Posted on 2/28/22 at 8:06 am to cheeseboudin
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I was so excited to see boudin on the menu, but it was ... cheesy rice. Literally a bowl of rice mixed with a mac-and-cheese quantity of cheese,
I've lived in Indiana and this is par for the course. Very kind and hard working people, some great basketball, some great auto racing, but the food is stunningly bland.
Folks find out I live in Louisiana when I'm there and they take me to a "new orleans restaurant" where I'm usually served "jambalaya" that is more like chicken rice with some spicy seasoning.
Posted on 2/28/22 at 9:15 am to tadman
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Folks find out I live in Louisiana when I'm there and they take me to a "new orleans restaurant" where I'm usually served "jambalaya" that is more like chicken rice with some spicy seasoning.
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Then take the opportunity to cook for them so they learn what "real" La. cuisine tastes like.
Hell, they may like it so much they'd encourage you to open a restaurant and you could become the "Paul Prudhome" of the Hoosier State.
Posted on 2/28/22 at 9:38 am to tadman
Ohhh you get it. I don't meet many people who have lived in both places! There's this fried chicken place in Nashville Indiana that people rave about, and the chicken is cooked very very nicely - and this was back before fried chicken was hip. But there was zero seasoning. Maybe salt and pepper, but it's like it was tailored for people who thought the Colonel's 11 herbs and spices were just too much.
And the barbecue sauce pizza thing I'll never understand.
The farmer's market was always great though, and you could get good quality meat from the Mennnonites. Great ingredients, basically, just nobody seasoned anything.
And the barbecue sauce pizza thing I'll never understand.
The farmer's market was always great though, and you could get good quality meat from the Mennnonites. Great ingredients, basically, just nobody seasoned anything.
Posted on 2/28/22 at 9:46 am to cheeseboudin
You tell us since you decided to name yourself the question evidently
Posted on 2/28/22 at 10:33 am to Deactived
quote:
always see boudin balls with cheese in them. Not necessarily the links and I dont recall seeing boudin and cheese in a bowl as a dish
A frequent quick cheap meal when I was in college was to take a link of boudin, break the casing and sauté it in a pan with cheese, and put it on french bread (if I had any) or mix in a can of drained sweet peas and eat it in a bowl. One of my favorite “struggle” meals.
Posted on 2/28/22 at 12:23 pm to cheeseboudin
Well boudin doesnt necessarily mean what we take as cajun boudin. French boudin blanc is a general type of sausage that sometimes contains some form of starch along with the meats.
i was thinking if indiana maybe you got something from a polish or maybe german decent. but then you mentioned it was from supposed Louisiana joint.....so... you got me.
i was thinking if indiana maybe you got something from a polish or maybe german decent. but then you mentioned it was from supposed Louisiana joint.....so... you got me.
Posted on 2/28/22 at 4:23 pm to cheeseboudin
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I ran into this at a restaurant in Indiana opened by Louisiana expats, years ago.
The six years I was in Katy Texas, occasionally someone would tell me, oh you need to go try this Cajun place or that place, the owners are from Louisiana!
99 percent of the time, it was horrible.
It would be like someone saying, LSUFanHosuton grew up in NOLA, he can play QB for the Saints in a road game.
I've heard of places mixing a little bit of cheese in the casing... but never in place of the pork.
Cheese and rice in a casing and grilled or smoked would be something I would try. But it's not boudin.
Posted on 3/1/22 at 8:32 am to cheeseboudin
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The farmer's market was always great though, and you could get good quality meat from the Mennnonites
And the cookies. Some amish family near Shipshewana always made the best ginger cookies.
Posted on 3/1/22 at 10:28 am to cheeseboudin
what was the name of the restaurant?
Posted on 3/2/22 at 8:57 am to LSUFanHouston
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It would be like someone saying, LSUFanHosuton grew up in NOLA, he can play QB for the Saints in a road game.
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