Cajun Food Where You Find It
Cajun French: l’oignon (l’on-ee-on) – onion
Quick and easy wrap for breakfast or light supper using eggs, mushroom and avocado. The sauce could be used with other dishes or as a base for a dip. This recipe lends itself to creative thinking. The addition of pine nuts adds crunch as well as richness.
Mais C’est Bon!
Cajun French: la prune (la prūn) – plum
Most of our recipes are made from “starch”, but sometimes we have prepared items that must be used. We do not like to throw out anything including prepared foods. In walks Pesto and we must use it somehow, somewhere, in something, etc. The pesto had already been used on pizza, but we still had half a bottle left. Shrimp was on the menu and the pesto became a marinade. The blending of flavors became a simple supper of shrimp with fresh plum and avocado. This is a great summer evening meal!
Mais C’est Bon!
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Cajun French: l’orange (l’ō-ronj) – orange
A small bottle of Sweet Roasted Garlic Balsamic Dressing was hanging out in our pantry. We weren’t sure how we would use the dressing. Flash forward, on the table in our fruit bowl was oranges and avocados while in the fridge we had cooked shrimp, roasted corn and roasted garlic. It was coming together. We decided to build a citrus salad with shrimp.
Mais C’est Bon!
Cajun French: la feve (la fev) – pea
Cajun Caviar, Texas Caviar, Poor Man’s Caviar as many names as there are recipes. Ours was born out of necessity – friends called and invited us to dinner that night. We never go anywhere without bringing a dish, what to bring? After searching the pantry we decided on black eye peas with shrimp, then we saw the avocado on the counter and that sounded refreshing. So our version of Cajun Caviar was born.
Mais C’est Bon!
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Cajun French: l’ail (l’a-ee) – garlic
Watching the sunset on a beach, sipping a cool, crisp glass of wine and a shrimp cocktail waiting for dinner. Dreaming of the day that will be our front yard and it will be soon! So tonight we are having the shrimp cocktail without the beach sunset or glass of wine (no wine on South Beach Phase 1). Having purchased large shrimp from the Anna Marie at the Red Stick Farmers Market, we decided a shrimp cocktail was in order. This was going to be dinner so we wanted to make the cocktail a complete meal. Searching the frig to see what was available and how the finds could be used resulted in our Shrimp Cocktail Expanded.
Mais C’est Bon!
Cajun French: l’ile (l’eel) – island
Friday was travel day, so Thursday night supper was going to be an easy dish of mushrooms and pasta. Yet, like most of our dishes, it evolved and evolved. Mushrooms and garlic were cooked and pasta was cooking; then we saw the ripe avocado. Okay that sounds good. Here’s a fresh tomato; that sounds good also. The dish was still easy; it just had more depth of flavor to it.
Our newest evolution – Island Pasta.
Mais C’est Bon!
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Cajun French: le saumon (lu sō-mon) – salmon
It is Thanksgiving morning and since we are pescatarians no turkey is in the oven. We are having a laid back morning; coffee and scones in bed. And now it is breakfast time – what is in the frig? What started out to be a mushroom omelet with salmon on the side turned into a wrap with lots of raw vegetables. This is a breakfast for any holiday.
Mais C’est Bon!
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Cajun French: la tomate (la tō-mat) – tomato
This breakfast started out as eggs and avocado. Sounds good yet could be boring so we started building a breakfast sandwich. First the pita bread, then the tomato and finally the mushrooms. Mayonnaise was added for flavor and then grapes for garnish. It is fun to build a sandwich without really knowing what the final product will be. Building this sandwich is what makes cooking together fun!
Mais C’est Bon!
Cajun French: le plie (lu plee) – flounder
Thanksgiving will be our first holiday since we became pescatarians. Not having turkey does not bother us, yet we were trying to decide what to prepare that would make a great presentation. We purchased a 2# flounder from the Anna Marie at the Red Stick Farmers Market and it was a beautiful fish. Stuffing the flounder was fun since as usual it was a building process. Once stuffed, we realized this was the perfect Thanksgiving dish. Now we are hoping that Melissa from the Anna Marie will have another beautiful founder for us to stuff for Thanksgiving.
Mais C’est Bon!
Cajun French: trancher (tron-shā) – slice of bread
This is another quick meal that is great for breakfast or light evening fare. In the evening serve with a crisp glass of white wine and a side of fresh fruit.
We call this one of our tower sandwiches because each ingredient builds on the other.
Mais C’est Bon!
Enjoy!!
