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We're coming to dinner, what's cookin?

Me too! Plus, I think cajun cooking is so hands-on and handed down that you have to go to cajun country to have it. It's not coming to you.
 
well then it is settled. we are all showing up at cajunmama's house!! i will book off the weekend.
 
Oh..................I think I'd better get a bigger pot. ;)

Moto- my grandmother made plain potato salad, and so do I, with one difference learned from my mother-in-law. Potatoes, eggs, salt, pepper, special recipe mayo and a dash of mustard. That's it, not fancy, but we like it.

Jenn - yes, it is po-boy.
 
cajunmama said:
Oh..................I think I'd better get a bigger pot. ;)

Moto- my grandmother made plain potato salad, and so do I, with one difference learned from my mother-in-law. Potatoes, eggs, salt, pepper, special recipe mayo and a dash of mustard. That's it, not fancy, but we like it.

Jenn - yes, it is po-boy.
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i saw po-boys on martha and man,YUM!!!

i make greek potato salad, so a hefty amount of fresh garlic crushed into the mayo the day before and allowed to sit. then potatoes, cucumbers, red onion, radish, green peppers,tomatoes,fresh oregano, pepper, feta, and kalamata olives. salt with a splash of the feta brine. this is sooooo good you can't stay out of it.
 
jenngorham said:
i saw po-boys on martha and man,YUM!!!

i make greek potato salad, so a hefty amount of fresh garlic crushed into the mayo the day before and allowed to sit. then potatoes, cucumbers, red onion, radish, green peppers,tomatoes,fresh oregano, pepper, feta, and kalamata olives. salt with a splash of the feta brine. this is sooooo good you can't stay out of it.
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That's a balanced meal right there.
 
oh it is so good in the summer with just grilled chicken and some pita bread, and more olives. well and wine and then dessert...lol
 
jenn, hows the agriculture up in NS? Are fresh fruits and veg widely available? Just curious.

I love to visit a particular island in The Bahamas, but I could never live there because they have pale pink, dry tomatoes, iceberg lettuce, and nothing else in the way of fresh. Very sad. People ask visitors to bring melons and apples and things.
 
it's pretty good. we have such a short growing season, so it's not a huge variety, but heaps of farmers just sell roadside out of their trucks. blueberries and strawberries are so good in the summer and corn and new summer potatoes. stone fruit don't do very well here though and so to get good fresh cherries, peaches or plums is hard and expensive. fiddleheads have a short short season but are so delicious.
i don't garden much myself just herbs and chives and tomatoes and the odd pea shoot. i just grow tons of tomatoes and then freeze them to throw into everything. even frozen they are way better the things they try to pass off as tomatoes.
 
jenngorham said:
i don't garden much myself just herbs and chives and tomatoes and the odd pea shoot. i just grow tons of tomatoes and then freeze them to throw into everything. even frozen they are way better the things they try to pass off as tomatoes.
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Me too. I have a big flower garden, with perennials and roses, but other than that I grow only tomatoes, herbs, and hot peppers and blueberries. And we have a small apple orchard, but I don't spray, so the worms get the benefit.

In the past I had a very big vegetable garden, with potatoes, okra, eggplant, zucchini, but we are very drought-prone, so that was heartbreaking sometimes (and backbreaking all the time). With the flowers, I go for fairly low maintenance, high show. Bang for the buck. :)

I love blueberries from the north. They're much tangier than those from N. Carolina, Georgia, and New Jersey. Hudson Valley has good local ones too.
 
Oka! Yum! I miss that! And collard greens.

I don't, however, miss the orange, plastic cheese!
 
Motokid said:
"fiddleheads"

What's a fiddlehead?
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It's a nascent fern, all curled up. Good sauteed with butter or olive oil. Very green tasting.

Okra is a pod-like thing with ridges, about 2-3 inches long. Must be used for a proper gumbo. Also, I like to make bindhi masala, which is curried okra. If you overcook it, it gets kinda gummy, which is why some people don't like it. Also, it should be young and tender. Think it originated in Africa.

Another thing I grow that I almost forgot: rhubarb. I'm a rhubarb freak! May pie and puddings all summer.
 
rhubarb. that is summer to me. peeled dipped in sugar, pie, preserves, punch. just the smell of it and i am on the back porch and it is 30 degrees c.

fiddleheads taste green. that is it exactly. it is like eating spring.
 
bobbyburns said:
you'll make a great grandma.
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Bobbyburns! If I tole you once I tole you a thousand times do not lick that plate. You ain't got the sense of a chicken. You kin have another piece o' pie later. Go do your coloring book now. There's a good boy.
 
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