Cooking to the Beat of Life
My Cajun Table

Abundance
Carnival Crawfish Boil
Crawfish Rolls
Soft-Shell Crawfish Po’Boy
Mim & Eunola’s Étoufée
Crawfish Fettucine
Hearty Oyster, Herbsaint, and Fennel Soup
New Orleans–Style Barbecued Shrimp
Shrimp Sauce Piquant
Apex Jambalaya
Breakfast Ring
King Cake
Les Oreilles de Cochon

Simplicity
Fresh Bean Salad with Tomatoes and Herbs
Strawberries and Pickled Beets
Fermented Cabbage
Dried Shrimp and Cabbage Salad
Cabbage Slaw
Hush Puppies
Smoked Fish Dip
Crab Egg and Sweet Pea Rice
Fish Cheeks with Green Onions and Parsley
Fried Fish Collars
Filé Gumbo
Bunny Carrot Cake
Strawberry Poke Cake

Warmth
Bayou Shrimp Salad in the Style of Nice
Creole Tomato Dressing with Boiled Shrimp
Pickled Shrimp
Nanny’s Shrimp Boulettes
Shrimp and Watermelon Salad
Shrimp Rolls
Fresh Okra, Shrimp, Rice, and Benne
Crab Boil with Potatoes and Corn
Decadent Crab Rolls
Jumbo Lump Crab Salad with Shallot Vinaigrette
Panfried Soft-Shell Crab
Red Crab Stew
Summer Seafood Gumbo
Blackberry Sweet Tarts
Buttermilk Ice Cream

Grace
7UP Biscuits
Muscadine Preserves
Milk-Soaked Fried Eggplant
Fried Potato Sandwiches
Shaved Persimmons and Greens
Mirliton Slaw
Corn and Squash Salad with Peaches
Corn Maque Choux
Corn, Salt Pork, and Tomatoes
Shrimp-Stuffed Mirlitons
Camille’s Mirliton and Okra Succotash
White Bean, Andouille, and Greens Soup
Persimmon Cake
Satsuma Sorbet with Condensed Milk and Benne

Traditions
Cracklins
Hog’s Head Cheese
Boudin
Boudin-Stuffed Chicken
Smoked Sausage
Pork Backbone Stew
Deer Tamales
Duck and Mushroom Fricassee
Duck and Andouille Gumbo
Rabbit and Dumplings
Afternoon Pecan Cake

Love
Lump Crab, Spinach, and Artichoke Dip
Fried Oyster, Radicchio, and Grapefruit Salad
Turnip Gratin
Turtle Soup
Chicken-Fried Quail
Holiday Dressing
Fried Turkey
Happy New Year Cabbage Rolls
Black-Eyed Pea Soup
Gateau Nana
Alberta Songe’s Red Velvet Cake
Pecan Crescents

Resilience
Quick Pickled Yellow Onions
Corn Bread with Dark Onion Butter
Shoestring Onion Rings
French Onion Soup
Hamburger Steaks, Caramelized Onions, and Gravy
Fried Chicken Livers, Caramelized Onions, and Rice
Seven Steaks
Velma Marie’s Oyster Jambalaya
Chicken and Smoked Sausage Gumbo
Caramelized Onion and Fig Tart

Roots
Mayonnaise
Lemon Aioli
Drawn Butter with Lemon and Bay
Shrimp Butter
Small-Batch Boiled Shrimp, Head On
Pickled Mustard Seeds
Quick Pickled Red Onions
Quick Pickled Red Blackberries
Smothered Okra
Shrimp Stock
Pork Stock
Roasted Chicken or Duck Stock
Beef Stock
Candied Pecans

Resources
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author