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Bayou Cajuns vs Prairie Cajuns
Posted on 12/22/12 at 4:20 pm
Posted on 12/22/12 at 4:20 pm
What are the main differences between their Cajun dishes?
This is what I think, but not being Cajun myself, I stand to be corrected.
Prairie Cajuns
Don't use celery as much
Some eat potato salad or eggs in their gumbo
More likely to use crawfish over shrimp
Courir de Mardi Gras (begging for the gumbo ingredients)
Rice and gravy
Bayou Cajuns
More likely to use shrimp than crawfish
Use more oysters
What do you say, F&D Board?
This is what I think, but not being Cajun myself, I stand to be corrected.
Prairie Cajuns
Don't use celery as much
Some eat potato salad or eggs in their gumbo
More likely to use crawfish over shrimp
Courir de Mardi Gras (begging for the gumbo ingredients)
Rice and gravy
Bayou Cajuns
More likely to use shrimp than crawfish
Use more oysters
What do you say, F&D Board?
This post was edited on 12/22/12 at 8:24 pm
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Posted on 12/22/12 at 4:28 pm to Stadium Rat
quote:
Some eat potato salad or eggs in their gumbo
I do this Rat. Love it. I'm of cajun descend but not sure if it bayou or prairie.
I guess my ancestors coming from Head of Island and Gramercy I would fall into the Bayou class.
Posted on 12/22/12 at 4:35 pm to Stadium Rat
I guess I fall in to the Bayou category. I certainly don't do the potato salad and egg thing.
But I hardly use oysters so I guess I'm a Heinz 57.
But I hardly use oysters so I guess I'm a Heinz 57.
Posted on 12/22/12 at 4:43 pm to Stadium Rat
I am a Cajun. I've never heard of the term "Prairie Cajun". There has always been a debate about N.O. food vs. Cajun food. I'm from New Iberia/Lafayette.
New Orleans is not Cajun. I guess you could call Lake Charles (west) or Ville Platte (north) Prairie. But I've never eaten there.
Ville Platte is full of bars, funeral homes and barber shops. Get some drinks, get your hair cut and then die.
Lake Charles is full of gambling boats. Zach does not gamble and has never had a good meal in LC.
New Orleans is not Cajun. I guess you could call Lake Charles (west) or Ville Platte (north) Prairie. But I've never eaten there.
Ville Platte is full of bars, funeral homes and barber shops. Get some drinks, get your hair cut and then die.
Lake Charles is full of gambling boats. Zach does not gamble and has never had a good meal in LC.
Posted on 12/22/12 at 4:52 pm to Zach
This is one source's opinion of where prairie cajuns lived.
Posted on 12/22/12 at 4:57 pm to Stadium Rat
quote:As a general rule, I agree.
Prairie Cajuns
Don't use celery as much
Some eat potato salad or eggs in their gumbo
More likely to use crawfish over shrimp
Bayou Cajuns
More likely to use shrimp than crawfish
Use more oysters
Posted on 12/22/12 at 4:59 pm to Stadium Rat
I just don't get those praire cajuns and their putting boiled eggs into gumbo.
Posted on 12/22/12 at 5:03 pm to Stadium Rat
My mom's family is from Welsh. I know they don't like to use celery. I never heard of the potato salad/egg thing for gumbo until it was mentioned on this board. I have the thought that the smoked meats, boucherie, dirty rice and boudin were more of a prairie thing.
Do bayou Cajuns do the Mardi Gras on horseback thing? I think the differences between bayou and prairie are probably even more elusive than the Cajun/Creole distinction. Just thought y'all might have some interesting thoughts on this.
ETA: Eunice claims to be the Prairie Cajun Capital
LINK
Do bayou Cajuns do the Mardi Gras on horseback thing? I think the differences between bayou and prairie are probably even more elusive than the Cajun/Creole distinction. Just thought y'all might have some interesting thoughts on this.
ETA: Eunice claims to be the Prairie Cajun Capital
LINK
This post was edited on 12/22/12 at 5:09 pm
Posted on 12/22/12 at 5:04 pm to GonePecan
quote:
I just don't get those praire cajuns and their putting boiled eggs into gumbo.
I would like to sincerely apologize for those that put eggs or okra in gumbo.
I never understood eating potato salad IN gumbo. Next to gumbo, sure, but IN gumbo when there's perfectly good rice available?
Posted on 12/22/12 at 5:06 pm to Stadium Rat
quote:
Do bayou Cajuns do the Mardi Gras on horseback thing?
Nah. As soon as you get the horse into the pirogue the damned thing rolls over and dumps you into the water.
This post was edited on 12/22/12 at 5:07 pm
Posted on 12/22/12 at 5:07 pm to TigerstuckinMS
quote:
I would like to sincerely apologize for those that put eggs or okra in gumbo.
You are forgiven your sins. Just say 2 Hail Mary's and 3 Our Fathers plus 1 Act of Contrition.
Posted on 12/22/12 at 5:13 pm to Stadium Rat
Don't know about the egg/potato salad thing, it was always a staple growing up (southern tip of Lafourche parish). They don't do the mardi gras by horseback down there,but they always have a boat parade that goes down the bayou between hwy 1 & hwy 308. I can agree that shrimp are in much greater use than crawfish. Shrimp was in everything but crawfish were a treat. Seafood in general was a several times a week thing for us since it was so readily available. Hell, I didn't know seafood was sold in a grocery store until I moved away in highschool. If you couldn't get what you needed from family you bought it from friends or neighbors.
Posted on 12/22/12 at 5:29 pm to futuretigermom
I think y'all are some confused coin asses.
Posted on 12/22/12 at 5:42 pm to TigerstuckinMS
quote:
Bayou Cajuns vs Prairie Cajuns
quote:
I just don't get those praire cajuns and their putting boiled eggs into gumbo.
I would like to sincerely apologize for those that put eggs or okra in gumbo.
The word Gumbo means okra, breh.
Posted on 12/22/12 at 6:58 pm to Stadium Rat
That's a nice summary.
I would add that prairie Cajuns cook better sauce piquante and stew, while the bayou Cajuns do better seafood dishes.
Grew up between Abbeville and Ville Platte, yes to potato salad and no to okra in the gumbo. Eggs sometimes dropped in seafood gumbo or shrimp stew.
I would add that prairie Cajuns cook better sauce piquante and stew, while the bayou Cajuns do better seafood dishes.
Grew up between Abbeville and Ville Platte, yes to potato salad and no to okra in the gumbo. Eggs sometimes dropped in seafood gumbo or shrimp stew.
Posted on 12/22/12 at 7:40 pm to Stadium Rat
As a prairie cajun, I tend to agree with your summary. My family would add Okra to some gumbos, but it was never in its raw state. Always smothered and then added. We ate shrimp growing up, but most of it that entered the house was turned into gumbo. Special occasion gumbo generally.
Posted on 12/22/12 at 7:52 pm to RaginCajunz
What about the smoked meats? Do bayou Cajuns do a lot of that?
Posted on 12/22/12 at 8:06 pm to Stadium Rat
In Lake Chuck gumbo was. Hen , Smoked sausage , stock made with deboned hen, roux ,garlic, onion, salt and pepper (cayenne and black) Potatoe salad on the side or a couple spoonfuls added at serving in the bowl.
I think Lake Chas /SWLA is king of rice and gravy( cattle country) but that is another thread
I think Lake Chas /SWLA is king of rice and gravy( cattle country) but that is another thread
This post was edited on 12/22/12 at 8:08 pm
Posted on 12/22/12 at 8:23 pm to LSUEnvy
quote:That's another thing that I associate with Prairie Cajuns!
I think Lake Chas /SWLA is king of rice and gravy
Posted on 12/22/12 at 8:35 pm to LSUEnvy
quote:Eh, I had hen sometimes but by no means a majority of the time growing up. Smoked sausage (usually from Rabideaux's) was used a whole lot more than andouille, though.
In Lake Chuck gumbo was. Hen , Smoked sausage
quote:That's a stretch, IMO.
I think Lake Chas /SWLA is king of rice and gravy
quote:Yep. I come from a cattle family. I plan to have my own herd soon. It'll be a challenge as I have a law practice split between Baton Rouge and Cameron Parish/Lake Charles now and am going to start a consulting firm and lobbying practice in Baton Rouge soon as well, but I really hope to get it done.
( cattle country)
This post was edited on 12/22/12 at 8:39 pm
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