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re: Bayou Cajuns vs Prairie Cajuns
Posted on 12/22/12 at 8:42 pm to Stadium Rat
Posted on 12/22/12 at 8:42 pm to Stadium Rat
From St. Martin Parish and never use potato salad or eggs in gumbo..
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Posted on 12/22/12 at 8:43 pm to Politiceaux
Politiceaux sounds like you have your hands full. It's great your still active in Cameron parish as I have had many wonderful meals and hunting trips there. It definitely has a special place in my heart and some of the best Cajun food I've had. Keep up the good work!
Posted on 12/22/12 at 8:51 pm to LSUEnvy
quote:
think Lake Chas /SWLA is king of rice and gravy
That's a stretch, IMO.
So the question is - do bayou Cajun revere rice and gravy like prairie Cajuns?
Posted on 12/22/12 at 9:02 pm to LSUEnvy
quote:
Politiceaux sounds like you have your hands full. It's great your still active in Cameron parish as I have had many wonderful meals and hunting trips there. It definitely has a special place in my heart and some of the best Cajun food I've had. Keep up the good work!
Let me know next time you're down there. Or if you get a speeding ticket
Posted on 12/22/12 at 9:03 pm to Politiceaux
quote:Is that good for all of us?
Let me know next time you're down there. Or if you get a speeding ticket
Posted on 12/22/12 at 9:16 pm to Stadium Rat
quote:
Is that good for all of us?
Of course. politiceaux@gmail.com if you need anything down that way.
Posted on 12/22/12 at 9:36 pm to wiltznucs
quote:same, well, my ancestors are from st Martin parish specifically Cypress island/Catahoula and Henderson/Cecelia/Arnaudville.
From St. Martin Parish and never use potato salad or eggs in gumbo..
Posted on 12/22/12 at 10:48 pm to TigerstuckinMS
quote:
I never understood eating potato salad IN gumbo. Next to gumbo, sure, but IN gumbo when there's perfectly good rice available?
Have you ever tried it? It is actually very good. Cold potato salad taste great in hot gumbo.
Posted on 12/22/12 at 11:43 pm to Stadium Rat
I always thought of it more East/West.
I find the roux and gumbo to be "thicker" in the west and you are more likely to get Chicken and sausage gumbo than seafood. Nearer New Orleans, you get thinner roux, seafood, celery.
And with my wife being from Lafayette, there's always potato salad as a side with the gumbo around her large, extended family (branches in Scott, Ceclia, Arnaudville, St. Martinville). It's optional whether or not you dump it into the gumbo, but I find that most of them do.
Rice and gravy is hard to find out here in the east.
Also harder to find decent boudin east of the Atchafalaya.
I find the roux and gumbo to be "thicker" in the west and you are more likely to get Chicken and sausage gumbo than seafood. Nearer New Orleans, you get thinner roux, seafood, celery.
And with my wife being from Lafayette, there's always potato salad as a side with the gumbo around her large, extended family (branches in Scott, Ceclia, Arnaudville, St. Martinville). It's optional whether or not you dump it into the gumbo, but I find that most of them do.
Rice and gravy is hard to find out here in the east.
Also harder to find decent boudin east of the Atchafalaya.
Posted on 12/23/12 at 5:42 am to CourseyCorridor
quote:
Rice and gravy is hard to find out here in the east.
??
I'm from Ascension and grew up on rice and gravy. Of course that and jambalaya were the first things I learned to cook.
Posted on 12/23/12 at 6:23 am to Stadium Rat
quote:
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
we are from Sulphur-Lake Chuck and we use celery in everything, i never ate gumbo with potato-egg salad in it until this last spring when i took a french immersion class up here at Universite Sainte Anne with a bunch of coonasses from ULL Laffy-I made my mawmaw`s gumbo for 30 people and one of em brought egg potato salad, gotta say it was delicious and have been doing it ever since...
Posted on 12/23/12 at 7:06 am to LSUCanFAN
The reason us folks from Acadia parish put eggs in stews and gumbos dates back to early lent time back in the day. The old Acadia Cajuns didn't eat meat at all during lent. It was their source of protein when seafood wasn't available. Been eating eggs in my gumbo since we would all go to my great grandma's house and eat her gumbo.... Miss the ol lady! Called her Ma Mom!!
Being that my great grandmothers family was from Nova Scotia and settled in the shite hole that is Rayne.... Puts my family from Acadia parish and I guess I'm Praire???
Being that my great grandmothers family was from Nova Scotia and settled in the shite hole that is Rayne.... Puts my family from Acadia parish and I guess I'm Praire???
Posted on 12/23/12 at 7:16 am to HebertFest08
quote:I cried a few tears at the memorial at Grande Pre up here, found my families' two french names on the list of deportees...we are a resilient bunch of people...
Being that my great grandmothers family was from Nova Scotia
As far as the gumbo and egg/potato salad i find it 'smoothes my gumbo out...it's pretty spicy for folks up here and i am making a gumbo on average once a month...Posted on 12/23/12 at 8:45 am to LSUCanFAN
not sure if I am Prairie or Bayou.
I think I got a little of both sides
I think I got a little of both sides
Posted on 12/23/12 at 8:57 am to Kajungee
Seems like the Cajuns who were mixing with Germans are the ones that did more of the boucherie/sausage making and smoked meats. Ville Plate, Roberts Cove, German Coast/River Parishes. Is that right? I just don't think of bayou Cajuns doing that much.
This post was edited on 12/23/12 at 8:59 am
Posted on 12/23/12 at 9:07 am to Kajungee
I'm an Irishman in Baton Rouge. I do all of the above so I guess being stuck in the middle isn't so bad after all.
Posted on 12/23/12 at 9:09 am to Stadium Rat
Well I got some St. Landry Cajun on one side and some Pointe Coupee by way of Belle Rose/Paincourtville Cajun on the other..
I must be some kinda mix bleed Cajun
I must be some kinda mix bleed Cajun
Posted on 12/23/12 at 9:13 am to wiltznucs
quote:
From St. Martin Parish and never use potato salad or eggs in gumbo..
Is Evangeline still sittin' under dat tree waitin' for dat man?
Posted on 12/23/12 at 9:34 am to LSUCanFAN
quote:
i never ate gumbo with potato-egg salad in it until this last spring when i took a french immersion class up here at Universite Sainte Anne with a bunch of coonasses from ULL Laffy-I made my mawmaw`s gumbo for 30 people and one of em brought egg potato salad, gotta say it was delicious and have been doing it ever since...
Most people who think it is awful have never tried it, and most of them have the same reaction when they finally do!
Posted on 12/23/12 at 10:23 am to CajunAlum Tiger Fan
Prairie cajuns use more red pepper in there food than Bayou Cajuns.
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