Cook the Book: 'Crescent City Cooking'
It's a toss up between really good gumbo and a crawfish boil.
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I will preface this quote by stating I am not a sane person, which may help explain why this picture makes me think of Hedwig & The Angry Inch:
"Hedwig: The taste is completely different from a gummi bear, yet somehow familiar. It's much sweeter that a gummi bear.
Hansel: Wow.
Hedwig: And softer too.
Hansel:I feel so optimistic.
Hedwig: I suddenly recognize the flavor in my mouth. It's the taste of power.
. . .
Hedwig: He searches my face for news of his fate. His expression is echoed in scores of tiny faces pressing against clear plastic. Panting faces of every imaginable color, creed, and non-Aryan origin. Fogging up the bag like the windows of a Polish bath house, I stumble naked through the ruins, back towards blander, less complicated confections, leaving in my wake a trail of rainbow carnage."
Yeah, I'm weird
Suggestions for Great Camping Food?
I second the dutch oven idea. If you have one, there's nothing you can't cook while camping. I've even made pizza in a dutch oven using canned biscuit dough as the crust. And cobblers are great in a dutch oven for dessert.
Dutch ovens aside, foil packet cooking is always easy and you can actually get pretty creative. Salmon, dill, asparagus, lemon, pat of butter and either a bit of water or white wine and you've got a whole meal in a bag. Best part - no dishes. And the possibilities are endless.
Suggestions for Great Camping Food?
I second the dutch oven idea. If you have one, there's nothing you can't cook while camping. I've even made pizza in a dutch oven using canned biscuit dough as the crust. And cobblers are great in a dutch oven for dessert.
Dutch ovens aside, foil packet cooking is always easy and you can actually get pretty creative. Salmon, dill, asparagus, lemon, pat of butter and either a bit of water or white wine and you've got a whole meal in a bag. Best part - no dishes. And the possibilities are endless.
Condé Nast Traveler's Hot List Tables 2007
I don't get the list either. The one restaurant listed for New Orleans is (inexplicably) Riche. It's little more than a crappy casino restaurant which Todd English has little to nothing to do with. In fact the only good thing I have heard about it, is that people like the onion soup.
It's really a shame too. The fastest growing industry in this town since the storm is probably the restaurant industry. So many better choices to choose from.
Killer Cajun Crawfish
um . . . While I am sure that recipe is in fact delicious, it definitely isn't Cajun.
Here's the easiest way to make boiled crawfish. Fill a pot with water. Throw in garlic, lemons, onions, salt cayenne and some Zatarain's crab boil (either liquid or dry works). Let it boil for a bit to make sure the water is fully flavored. add new potatoes and biol for 5 or so minutes, then add crawfish and boil for another 5 or so minutes. Serve immediately. Voila, real Cajun boiled crawfish.
you can buy Zatarain's products through their website here.
Question of the Day: What surprises your friends most to hear that you make yourself?
Definitely pizza crust. My grandmother taught me how and it's ridiculously easy.
People thinks it's way more work than it is. My brother's fiancee thinks I'm crazy (this comes from the girl who actually purchases pizza crust in a bag that you just add water to).
Cookbook Giveaway: 'Super Natural Cooking'
Fresh berries and greek yogurt with homemade granola.
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
I am not sure which is scarier, that this recipe exists, or that , according to reviews, there are people who have actually made and eaten these things.
My First Recipe
Congrats on your first recipe. You'll get the hang of it soon. You already seem to know how flavors, ingredients and textures work together. Once you realize you have a firm grasp on this, you'll be inventing things left and right.
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Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
So what? No one is forcing you to make it and eat it. Its not harmful to eat things like this once in awhile, and in moderation. If you don't like her, don't watch her. RELAX. Besides butter is PURE FAT already anyway. Aren't there more important things in the world to b**ch about?
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
Dean: "I'm gettin' fatter by the day. I just hate my arterae. I'll plug 'em up and make 'em die, 'cause everything I eat is fried."
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
As a Southern belle, born and bred, and having lived in Georgia for 45 years, I have to say that everyone in my family agrees that Paula puts on a lot of that drawl. In all my years I have never heard ANYONE talk like she does, unless they are parodying ignorant Southerners. But hey, it seems to be getting her what she wants - lots of attention.
As for her recipes, they too are mostly for show. Southerners know about serum cholesterol, triglycerides, and diabetes. Yes, we have regional favorites, but they wouldn't make Yankees gawk and watch a show. Folks, "that's entertainment," I suppose.
For a true slice of Southern cuisine, please pick up a copy of Southern Living magazine or one of their cookbooks. For a funnier parody of Southern rednecks, watch reruns of "HeeHaw."
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
Do some of you people just watch these shows because you've run out of everyday things in your lives to "crab" about. I agree with "turn the channel" I'm a Paula fan, no I don't fix everything she creates. She is pure entertainment though. And.... which one of you are such a perfect specimen of human figure that you feel the need to even comment on the physical features of another human being? Your jealous the women is successful while seeming to enjoy life. Get over it. Cook her recipes or don't. Watch her show, or don't. Get your own life, you might be happier.
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
As a "healthy cook" I watch what we eat and prepare things in the healthiest possible way, but this weekend at the farmer's market I was attacked by a memory of my Mother and Grandmother and those amazing vegetable suppers they made in the summer. The idea that vegetables should be steamed and crisp was anathema to those ladies and I got a craving for green beans and new potatoes ( used Paula Deen's recipe cause I didn't write down my Mother's) with salt pork and bacon grease (yes I had to go locate those things in the grocery store!), sliced tomatoes, squash casserole ( with butter and cracker crumbs and cheese...lots of cheese), maninated cucumbers and onions, icy cold watermelon and cantaloupe. Today I have huge guilt that I did it and am headed to the gym to do penance, but OMG it was good!
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
Next weeks show will feature Paula wearing a sensitive microphone over her heart so that we can all hear her aorta clogging up while she cooks.
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
lovetenfoe - ITA with you. I love Paula. I met her in person when she was here in Tampa last year. What a sweet lady. I read her book and realized, she's one of us! I've tried several of her recipes that I like and subscribe to her wonderful magazine - I can say, They Are Great! For the Naysayers out there - If you don't like her, then CHANGE THE CHANNEL!! Jeez - like the saying goes - "Life's Too Short For The Dumb Junk", you know?
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
I have a problem with those that are saying all these NEGATIVE things about what Paula Deen is cooking, how she's cooking it!!! If you don't eat real southern cooking then don't watch the show!! Paula's not forcing you to eat her food!! Alot of things that Rachel Ray cook I would NEVER eat! But I don't go around putting her down, because everyone has to make a living so hey, thats there way! Paula loves cooking and I enjoy all of her shows and I cook her recipes all the time. My family loves Paula!! I pray one day I will get to meet her in person! We love you in WEST Palm beach Paula!! FYI- Raw meat can kill you too! Think first before speaking.
#1 PAULA DEEN FAN!!!!!!
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
I absolutely love Paula Deen. Find someone else to leave your rude and ignorant remarks about because Paula is the last peson to deserve such critisicm. She has enough spunk to beat out all of you people who have nothing better to do than to point fingers. I have never witnessed a more loving woman than Paula Deen, so leave your unappreciative comments to yourself.
Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us
"Paula Deen is Trying to Kill Us" - You would think that someone was actually trying to kill you by holding you at gunpoint to go to the grocery store buy the ingredients. Come home mix them up. Freeze them. Get them out and drop them into a fryer. I'm guessing most people making comments are overweight themselves and have no self control. So you're killing yourself. It's really sad to think that you can't enjoy a recipe for what it is. I live in Texas where it's a hobby to see what you can fry from Snickers to Oreos. Get over yourselves and let the woman entertain! YOU GO PAULA!
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