Real Nawlins New Orleans

Real Nawlins

chefjeb 16 years ago

This is a site for real nawlins food, which is often more Creole than Cajun and has flavor, not hot, hot, hot. And even real Cajun isn't hot, hot, hot. It is the ingredients that make it unique, not peppers. Paul Prudhomme added heat and the tgrue cajun dishes were swept aside in the craze to make everything so damn hot you couldn't taste what you were eating. Let's try and keep this site true to the old original recipes and not post a vanilla milkshake with two tablespoons of cayenne.

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dixiejet 16 years ago said:

I'm with you ! I'm from Louisiana but live in N.C. and everyone here (husband included) thinks gumbo should be a inferno blast to the taste buds !!! DRIVES ME BANANAS !!!

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smurfe 15 years ago said:

I live in the area to in Gonzales. Thats why when you visit here, you eat where we eat, not where the tourist eat. Creole and Cajun food is not out the box spicy. You can actually taste it and it tastes damn good! The town I live in is labeled the Jambalaya Capita of the World. Where many place an organization will have a bake sale to raise funds, we have Jambalaya sales. It is never spicy, You add that yourself. It slays me when you eat at a tourist trap restaurant around here and eat something like Jambalaya that is super spicy. etouffee doesn't make your nose run. Gumbo is rich and flavorful. You want to taste the flavors from the roux. Shrimp Creole is tomato based, not cayenne based. About the only thing around here that is really expected to be spicy are the boiled crawfish and crabs.

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