Cajun French: le maquechou (lu mak-shoo) – fried corn
The modern version of this dish is spelled differently from the original Cajun dish. It was a dish made with fried corn, green bell pepper, onion and sometimes garlic. Over the years, it has been changed and modernized to tastes. Today it has the addition of celery and can also have tomatoes, beans and anything the creator wants to add. It always starts with corn.
Mais C’est Bon!
Enjoy!!
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While traveling we are not always able to buy fresh fish and we had been fresh fish deprived for a while. Heading back to south Mississippi, we knew fresh fish was waiting. Laurie enjoys fish en papillote and had not had it for some time. John’s creative juices started flowing and below is the result.