Shrimp & Sausage Creole (Stew)

Crawfish are one of my favorite foods!  We live a few miles from an awesome restaurant where they serve boiled crawfish new orleans so my husband usually picks up crawfish a few times a month.  I normally just peel, devein and cook them in butter.  Then I finish them off with my Cajun seasoning and…

Daddy’s Chicken Perlo (Pileau)

This recipe, Daddy’s Chicken Perlo, is featured in the Main Dishes section of Satisfying Eats Cookbook.   When daddy cooked, he never followed a recipe.  This was one of his specialties that he would cook for large crowds, especially at the local hunting club which I spent many Saturday’s with him as a young girl…

Roux-less Chicken & Sausage Gumbo

11-9-12 Update: I made this again last night. Delicious as always but I was unable to get the same smoked sausage I normally use so it was lacking that nice smokey flavor. My solution, I added smoked paprika and my Cajun House Seasoning at the end. SO good!  Also, be sure to add the pepper…