New Orleans Seafood Cookbook or New Roadhouse Recipes

New Orleans Seafood Cookbook

Author: Andrew Jaeger

The third-generation seafood chef and proprietor of the famous French Quarter restaurant presents 125 of his best-loved recipes, lavishly illustrated with full-color photos.

Publishers Weekly

Jaeger and DeMers have created a primer to get cooks who don't know an touff e from a gumbo on the road to Creole bliss. Chef Jaeger, whose family has been in the New Orleans seafood business for decades, and veteran cookbook scribe DeMers spare not an ounce of Southern hospitality while instructing how to peel shrimp, open an oyster and suck the spice out of the head of a crawfish. Missing and needed, however, are suggestions on just how to acquire, say, some fresh Channel Catfish or the obscure Southern fruit known as a mirliton. Meanwhile there is no shortage of Jaeger family history, New Orleans small talk and tips on living the good life (cranked-up music, Louisiana shrimp and a cold beer). Recipes run the gamut from the simple (Fried Shrimp, Blackened Tuna) to the sublime (Crawfish Ravioli in a Hot Brandy Cream Sauce, Oysters Rockefeller) and the ridiculous (a Bread Pudding that absorbs a can of fruit cocktail, a Jambalaya that calls for a quarter pound of margarine). Preambles to each of the recipes often prove amusingly disarming: the directions for a questionable concoction called Asparagus-Lemon-Cream Trout begin by stating, "Sometimes you try a combination and just get lucky." Such logic makes this collection a worthwhile gamble for easy-does-it cooks or die-hard Yankees in search of a different cuisine. (July) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	vii
INTRODUCTION	1
STIRRING THE GUMBO POT	11
NEW ORLEANS SEAFOOD GLOSSARY	17
SHRIMP	23
OYSTERS	51
CRABS	67
FISH	85
CRAWFISH	101
LAGNIAPPE	123
DESSERTS	135
BASICS	143
INDEX	153
ABOUT THE AUTHORS	164

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New Roadhouse Recipes

Author: Morris Communication Corp

Travelers and cooks alike will enjoy this new collection of recipes from the editors of The Milepost. Almost 200 entries submitted by restaurants, hotels, lodges, inns and bed and breakfasts fill the pages of this book, representing the best the North's "new" roadhouses have to offer.