re: Baton Rouge area "Cajun" food sucks

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the recipes are simple. as long as he has the proper ingredients, what exactly is he going to frick up

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This is what EVERYONE from outside of the state f&%ks up, and I don't understand why. They use the wrong rice. Rather than long grain white rice, they try to use yellow rice, parboil rice, saffron rice, basmati rice, short grain, etc and it ruins the texture, screws up the water absorption ratio, and mucks with the cooking times. They often also try to put proteins in it like shrimp and oysters that end up getting overcooked.

Jambalaya is all about precise technique. It is simple, but precise.