What cajun food would you consider summer seasonal?

Fish fry

Shrimp and grits still seems pretty heavy

Fried anything seems heavy

Maybe I'm missing something but the cuisine doesn't seem to be well suited for hot weather...which is somewhat ironic given the climate in LA.

Crab boil

Cold shrimp in a big summer salad was always my mother's concession to the heat. Home grown tomatoes and cukes, cold boiled shrimp, lettuce. Salt and lots of black pepper. Light dressing with mayo.

Sweet cantaloupe out of the garden as a side. Yum.

Sauté about halfway some nice shrimp then toss into a pot of fresh Lima beans to finish. Or butter, speckled or fresh field peas.

Squash soup with sauté shrimp.

Shrimp remoulade.

I just finished a couple pieces of speckled trout sautéed with salt and pepper then laid on top of a couple tablespoons of my horseradish remoulade with a sliced tomato out of my garden on top. It ain't heavy. It's my dinner.

That's a shame, but you could grill or blacken shrimp for a hot meal or a cold one.

I always make muffs in the summer.

There is nothing Cajun about shrimp & grits...it's a low country dish from the Carolinas.

Summer cajun: think about what's in season. May brown shrimp season means BBQ shrimp, and shrimp in everything...shrimp and eggplant, shrimp and corn soup, shrimp spaghetti (the down n dirty bayou kind with a little crab fat added to it). Crabs feature large in summer cooking, too: crab stew, crab étouffée, stuffed crabs, marinated boiled crabs, crabmeat au gratin. Shrimp n crabmeat n rice stuffed green peppers.

Fresh field or purple hull peas, fresh green beans, maque choux, stewed okra and tomatoes, smothered squash with crabmeat....figs, blackberry dumplings, homemade ice cream....

Well instead of specific Cajun summer just think southern summer. I just picked two big Cherokee purple tomatos from my garden and have a pound of applewood smoked bacon so tomorrow I'll have a fresh BLT with Bunny bread, Blue Plate mayo, salt and pepper and ice tea.

I also have some fresh pesto from my basil and I'll have that with a piece of grilled chicken in a salad.

And I bought today my first watermelon and fresh picked corn of the season. Corn will be eaten tomorrow since it needs to go fast.