Bananas Foster is a dessert. It consists of bananas served warmed with ice cream and a sauce.
Boudin Blanc Creole is a Creole sausage made in Louisiana that has rice as one of its ingredients. It is very different from the French version of Boudin Blanc.The French one uses milk & bread instead of rice. General consensus appears to be that there are there are some good renditions of Boudin Blanc Creole,…
Boudin Noir Creole is a Creole sausage made in Louisiana that has rice as one of its ingredients. It is very similar in ingredients and in treatment to Boudin Blanc Creole, except the sausage is almost always highly-seasoned, and pig blood is added to the sausage mixture. Other ingredients will be pork liver, chicken or…
Chaurice is a hot, spicy sausage made in Louisiana used to flavour dishes. It’s made from pork, garlic, onion, salt, cayenne pepper and red pepper flakes, pressed into cases. Chaurice is traditional in Creole cooking, but is also used now in Cajun cooking. Cooking Tips As a fresh sausage, it needs to be cooked.
Creole cream cheese is milk curd mixed with clabber cream. It is generally only available in South Louisiana. It used to be made only by small family dairies there, and it almost died out with them. It would vary a bit between the family dairies; some versions would be smooth like cream cheese, other varieties…
Creole Red Silverskin Garlic belongs to the Creole sub-group of the Silverskin group of garlics, itself a subgroup of softneck garlics. It has fewer cloves than others in the Creole Group such as Burgundy and Ajo Rojo, only 4 to 6 cloves, but they are larger cloves. The garlic has a strong and full but…
Gumbo is a Cajun stew that came about as a way to use up leftovers — meat, seafood and vegetables. Some versions add rice as well. The gumbo is thickened slightly with roux, okra, or with filé. Some people say you can combine all three thickeners, others say you would never be allowed to do…
Nectar Soda is red, fizzy drink sort of like Cream Soda made in New Orleans. It is sold in glass and plastic bottles, with a foil label. There is also a diet version now. The product’s slogan is “Mardi Gras in your Mouth.” To people from Louisiana, it reminds them of everything about summer in…
Tasso is cured, smoked, seasoned lean meat made in Louisiana. It has a salty, spicy taste. You use it in small quantities to add flavour to dishes, rather than eat it on its own. The meat used traditionally was either pork or beef; now, it might be turkey instead of either. The most common meat,…
Turducken Roll © Michelle Mattern A Turducken (aka Turducken Roll) consists of rolled-up meat from three deboned birds: a chicken, a duck and a turkey, in ascending order of size. The chicken is stuffed inside the duck, which in turn is stuffed inside the turkey. Turducken is considered a novelty or an extravagance still, and…
