Tag: southern cooking
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Low country boil
This is meant to be a big ol’ prawn (shrimp), crab or crawfish stew for a heap of people to enjoy. Your seafood gets loose in a party of potatoes, corn, sausage and some kinda spicy seasoning and then you get some paper on the table, lay it all out with a couple of dipping…
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Grilled seafood with garlicky butter sauce while the kids are away
A simple, three-step recipe for a damn fine night with your one and only while the children are absent on school camp. 1. Ship the children off to school camp. It is important to remember that this involves more than just sending your offspring to their place of learning (yes, that’s questionable but we’ll get…
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Smoky grilled chicken
I really do like a good yard bird. This is a good yardbird type experience. A smoking hot bronzed bird splayed out in front of you… so moist and ready for the taking… it’s good times. Euphemisms aside, if they should really ever be put aside, this is some damn tasty bird. If you can…
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Apple cider vinaigrette and my sincerest apologies
Apple cider vinaigrette This is a recipe that I constantly forget to give you fine folks, and for that I’m sorry. But I am giving it to you right now (Well, I’m not actually “giving it to you” right now because that would be perverted… unless it’s consensual I guess… a conversation for another time…
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Bad-ass many meat gumbo
This is a beast of a meal that originated from a surplus of leftover cooked meats from weekend catering jobs that were loitering in my refrigerator that I needed/wanted to use… and I had a raging desire to get a bit of variety into the diet of the carnivorous dinosaur I keep as a pet…
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Gumbo. Smoked lamb gumbo…
Today I made gumbo… or something that is sort of gumbo, I guess. Best as I can figure gumbo was created in Louisiana as sort of a use-up-all-of-the-shit-in-your-garden, chuck-in-whatever-bit-of-meat-you-can-afford, roux flavoured, file or okra thickened, po’ folks type food, so I’m pretty sure that means I’m following the brief… and not even with a chance…