Spicy Beans Amp Rice Recipe

chefjeb 2 years, 3 months ago said:
Hate to tell you, but this isn't Nawlins. It doesn't belong in the New Orleans group. I'm not saying the recipe isn't good, it may be super good if you like hot, but it just isn't Crescent City Creole, which is not Cajun. And even Cajun, which New Orleans isn't, is not hot, hot, hot. It is the ingredients that made Cajun different. The Acadians (Cajuns who were French) escaped from Nova Scotia because of harsh treatment from the British in the 1750s and settled west of the Mississippi River and west of Baton Rouge and in the Atchafalaya basin and established towns such as Breaux,Bridge, Opelousas, New Iberia and used what they had, alligator, nutria, pork, chickens. Paul Prudhomme in the 1970s introduced high heat and the nation now believes that adding two tablespooons of cayenne to a milkshake makes it Cajun. It doesn't. New Orleans roots are Creole, not Cajun. It is a mixture of Spanish, French and African. It is richer and totally different that Cajun because New Orelans Creoles had a port and wealth and access to a wider variety of foodstuffs and didn't have to live off the land, as did the Cajuns. laissez les bon temps rouler, cher. Let the good times roll!