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Cooking dinner for my gf parents...
Posted on 5/17/13 at 2:51 am
Posted on 5/17/13 at 2:51 am
It's "meet the parents" trip in June. She's from midtown manhattan. She wants me to cook a classic Louisiana dinner for them since she always speaks higly of my cooking. I'm thinking jamabalaya w/ white beans, red beans and rice, seafood stuffed eggplant, blackened something...? My concern would be ingredients like andouille, tasso, and such. Any ideas, advice, recomendations greatly appreciated.
This post was edited on 5/18/13 at 2:28 pm
Posted on 5/17/13 at 3:42 am to Boondock544
Man that sounds like a sitcom. My coonass son. Good luck
Posted on 5/17/13 at 3:55 am to Boondock544
How orthodox are the parents? If daddy is wearing a yarmulke when they get off the plane I'd skip the sausage and any shellfish you may have been considering.
This post was edited on 5/17/13 at 3:57 am
Posted on 5/17/13 at 3:57 am to BackWoodsTiger
You shouldn't have a problem with ingredients
Posted on 5/17/13 at 5:55 am to Boondock544
I was expecting to be an usher for a couple that chose not to get married in the end. She was a Jewish American Princess (known by the derogative term JAP) and he was a Muslim from the extremely southern region of Lebanon and was the last living member of his high school class. I told them I would sit guests by Uzis or AKs. For your blackened dish try some seared tuna steaks, for stuffed try crab and shrimp merliton, pick one of your two bean choices and go with that one I would probably go with is the white beans. Maybe a cajun up in Yankee land can hook you up with a Jewish deli for meats.
Posted on 5/17/13 at 6:34 am to Boondock544
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.
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.
Posted on 5/17/13 at 6:49 am to Boondock544
That's stuffed seafood eggplant sounds great. If their palates like strong flavors, I'd blackened some chicken or fish with it.
I learned one thing throughout the years, not everyone likes beans... regardless of how good it may be.
I learned one thing throughout the years, not everyone likes beans... regardless of how good it may be.
Posted on 5/17/13 at 7:29 am to Boondock544
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
Posted on 5/17/13 at 8:20 am to Boondock544
Good advice in here so far. My .02 is tone the spice WAAAAAY down, I mean just about bland. My experience with cooking for yankees is that everything is too spicy. I wouldn't even think about blackening anything unless they're really into spicy ethnic like Thai or Indian food. Good luck.
Posted on 5/17/13 at 8:33 am to OldSouth
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.
Posted on 5/17/13 at 8:40 am to bossflossjr
+1 on that idea. Kosher or semi-kosher throws big monkey wrenches into dietary conundrums into the mix.
Posted on 5/17/13 at 9:17 am to Boondock544
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.
Posted on 5/17/13 at 9:20 am to Layabout
They eat anything including sausage and shellfish.
Posted on 5/17/13 at 9:29 am to Boondock544
just grill her some catfish filets and top them with some spicy etouffee.
Posted on 5/17/13 at 9:40 am to oldcharlie8
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just grill her some catfish filets and top them with some spicy etouffee.
Ah damn Charlie look what you did! Now I have to run to the house to thaw some tails and stop by the fish market for some filets.....Like I didn't have enough shite to do today!
Posted on 5/17/13 at 10:04 am to Boondock544
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Midtown Jewish parents meet south Louisiana cajun catholic
Posted on 5/17/13 at 10:13 am to Boondock544
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They eat anything including sausage and shellfish.
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.
This post was edited on 5/17/13 at 11:03 am
Posted on 5/18/13 at 8:26 am to Gris Gris
I'll pobably blacken fish with ettouffee. Her brother went to tulane so the family is familiar with south LA spices and flavors.
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