Cajun Food Where You Find It
Cajun French: la feve (la fev) – pea
A farmer gave us a piece of cooking advice some time back; do a first boil with fresh peas and beans. He said it would take the starch out and they would taste better. Skimming the starch helps but rinsing the peas or beans is even better. Never having done a first boil we decided to try his method. It does give a better taste and we have been cooking our fresh peas and beans that way ever since.
Mais C’est Bon!
Enjoy!!
Cajun French: brûler – burn
Fresh seasonal peas and beans are one of our weekly purchases from the farmers market. Having purchased purple hull peas this week, we decided to cook them Saturday afternoon. We started the cooking process and headed off to do other things; not a good idea. We were working and totally absorbed in our project and completely forgot about the beans. All of a sudden Laurie jumped up and ran to the kitchen, smelling the burning pot on the way. Sure enough – burned pot bottom. The beans had a rather good smoky flavor – more about this later.
Cajun French: déjeuner (dā-ju-nā) – breakfast
Okay, so we are not having just Bloody Marys for brunch but they sure make preparing brunch more interesting.
It’s the 4th of July and we were being very lazy just enjoying the morning. After drinking more coffee than anyone should, it was time to think about food. Opening the fridge and taking lots of items out, what the heck go for the Bloody Marys. Now with drink in hand, we decided to fix eggs with everything taken out of the fridge.
Mais C’est Bon!
Enjoy!!
