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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Cajun Creations

BBQ for Mardi Gras: Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp, Potato Salad & Pork 'N Beans (With Recipe)

Today’s column is all about Mardi Gras madness with a side of BBQ.

Today is the last day of the Carnival season, known around the world as the last day to get out all of your sins before you repent for Lent. Here, it's better known as Mardi Gras. To me, Mardi Gras is more than beads, booze and boobs. It’s also about music, marching bands, and time off from school. Mardi Gras madness is celebrated differently across my hometown state of Louisiana. The Spanish Town parade covers Baton Rouge in pink flamingos and pleases the spectators with original dancing groups, like The Lawnmower Brigade. In the neighborhoods of New Orleans, the Mardi Gras Indians parade though the streets wearing elaborate suits made of beads, sequence and feathers. Near my parran’s house (pronounced “pah-ran,” meaning Godfather) in …

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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Cajun Creations

How to Attain Health, Luck and Money: A Cajun New Year’s Tradition (With Recipe)

This column is about the traditional New Year’s Day foods we Cajuns eat on the bayou.

Each year on New Year's Day, my parents would make us eat pork, black-eyed peas, and cabbage. "Just eat it. You're not getting up from this table until you try a bite," my mama would persist until all five kids sampled their foods. One or two of my siblings actually liked the traditional New Year's food, but most of us had to pinch our nose, hold our breath and close our eyes to force down the vegetables. We didn't care that black-eyed peas would bring us health, or that pork would bring us luck — and especially that cabbage would bring us money and prosperity. Almost everyone on the bayou eats these three foods on Jan. 1 in one recipe or another. Each of the bayou grocery stores places these foods in their main storefront displays before…

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4:04 pm on Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Remind me not to stick my nose in your wallet in about a month...ooooeee that cabbage is going to stink!! :)   more ›

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