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Captain of the kitchen
Balsamic Shrimp has a distinct sweet tang from the honey and the balsamic vinegar, but there is no sour component in its taste profile.[…]
Recipes
Catfish
Gourmet taste can be gluten-free
Stefanie Rogers lives with her husband Scotty in the rural Louisiana community of Pine — the same village where they grew up. Considering where they live, it would be easy to assume she would simply cook Southern style dishes, with little seafood other than fried catfish.[…]
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New Orleans girl crafts creative crab cuisine
Two things quickly become obvious about Dana Ranna Venezia. She is a focused, highly organized person, and of all the things that she cooks, she loves crabmeat the most.[…]
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Oyster recipes perfect for the holidays
From now through February and into March, Louisiana oysters are in their prime — fat and flavorful.[…]
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Alligator, shrimp highlight Bayou State’s bounty
Three years ago, we sashayed into Jerilyn Chenevert’s life to cook gators with her.[…]
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Cajun meets Italian: The “Stromboli Psychic”
Imagine our surprise when we walked into Janelle Folse’s Raceland home and she declared that she was going to prepare a Cajun stromboli.[…]
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This cook is saucy
Laina Asprion grew up as a New Orleans Creole. Here are her recipes for Barbeque Shrimp and Manade’s Crawfish Monica.[…]
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Papa bear’s turn to cook
Johnny Falterman’s motivation for cooking is to watch people enjoying his food. Here are his recipes for Tiger Salad and Crawfish and Crabmeat a la Johnny.[…]
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It’s a Louisiana kitchen in a Mississippi home
Capt. John Falterman, Jr. and his mom Debby joined forces to make a salad with fried oysters while John cooked his corn and crawfish soup.[…]
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The cooking game warden strikes again
Abbeville resident and native Derek Logan shares his recipe for Camp Baked Fish and the author shares a recipe for Bream Fillets Thermidor.[…]
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Don’t mess with this cook!
Sheri Birk of Southern Exposure Inland Fishing Charters shares her recipes for Crab Cakes with Dill Remoulade and Crawfish Étouffée.[…]
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Take your pick: Exotic or slick
Wilmer and Betsy Mills live in a rambling, early 20th century Southern farm home that breathes history from every board of which it was built.[…]
News Breaker
Make an old tom kabob
Lots of hunters like chasing turkeys, and I’m with them all the way. Every now and then, a turkey can do something really stupid, but most of the time they are so wary they make deer seem as foolish as babes in the woods.[…]
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This couple cooks with passion
Mike and Shellie Daniel use the word “passion” repeatedly when talking about cooking.[…]
Other Hunting
How to cook raccoon
There was something primal about it — grown men imbibing beverages around a fire, watching meat sizzle and talking about politics, cooking, hunting and trapping.[…]
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Who says real Cajuns don’t eat salads?
Janelle Folse has been cooking for her family since she was 15. Here she shares her recipes for shrimp cole slaw and shrimp & corn bisque. […]