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Book signing at our Lafayette Fresh Pickins

By nbertrand on Sunday, May 6th, 2012 | No Comments

We had a great turnout for our food demonstration and book signing at our local Fresh Pickins Produce Market here in Lafayette, LA this morning. We get invited every year for their annual food festival. So we go prepared with a lot of food to give away as samples in order to promote our cookbooks. [...]

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How to have a Cajun Crawfish Boil

By nbertrand on Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 | 1 Comment

“Yay Crawfish! Let’s have a crawfish boil!” What is a Cajun crawfish boil? There is a tradition here in Cajun Country, or Acadiana, where families look forward to getting together to have a Cajun Crawfish Boil. It is a major south Louisiana social event. Families get together for a back yard crawfish boil during crawfish [...]

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Brown Rice, Black-eyed Peas & Sausage Jambalaya – a healthier alternative

By nbertrand on Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 | No Comments

I was asked by a nurse to make this recipe using brown rice instead of white rice. She helps diabetes patients with their diets. They can’t have white rice. I’m also using turkey sausage in link form, 3 links in a pound. It has less fat than beef or pork. Enjoy! Brown Rice, Black-eyed Peas [...]

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Learn How to Make Apple Pie in a Slow Cooker

By nbertrand on Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 | No Comments

I demonstrate how to make Apple Pie (Apple Cobbler) in a slow cooker. It is a recipe from my cookbook “Slow Cooker Meals: Easy Home Cooking for Busy People.” I’ve had a lot of compliments on it. It tastes really good! Apple Pie recipe for Slow Cookers: 8 tart apples, peeled and sliced 1 1/4 [...]

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Corn Maque Choux video, a classic Cajun dish

By nbertrand on Thursday, March 8th, 2012 | 1 Comment

I remember mom and dad making a Cajun dish called Cajun Corn Maque Choux when I was young. We would take a trip to a farm a few miles away and get fresh corn, come back and take the husks and silk off. Then we’d have to cut the corn off the cob. It all [...]

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How to Make Cajun Cracklins

By nbertrand on Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 | 1 Comment

How to Make Cajun Cracklins I needed the best Cajun cracklins  recipe I could find for my cookbook, Down-Home Cajun Cooking Favorites, so I called a local meat market that I know has awesome cracklins — Earl’s on Verot School Road here in Lafayette, La. I made an appointment with Jacque the butcher to go [...]

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Cajun Recipes | The History of Gumbo

By on Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 | 12 Comments

Gumbo is a stew or soup that originated in Southern Louisiana during the 18th century. It consists primarily of a strongly-flavored stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener, and the vegetable holy trinity of celery, bell peppers, and onions.  A Gumbo is often categorized by the type of thickener used: the African vegetable okra, the Choctaw [...]

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Blackeyed Pea and Sausage Jambalaya In A Rice Cooker

By on Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 | 2 Comments

This black eyed peas recipe is surprisingly good. (Another name for it is a Hoppin John recipe.) This is the sausage jambalaya dish I cook at the food demonstrations I’ve done. All who have tasted this dish were very impressed – even the ones who said they didn’t care for black eyed peas. You can [...]

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