A routine chicken dinner becomes a fun weekday fiesta night with these Family Friendly Shredded Chicken Taquitos. They were featured previously in the July Aimee’s Pretty Palate column: Family Favorites but I wanted to share them here as part of my ongoing efforts to spice up dinnertime. I think we can all agree that serving…
Named after Kajun Kettle Foods Chef Pierre “Pete” Hilzim’s wife Monica, Crawfish Monica Pasta is a New Orleans Jazz Festival staple but an easy enough recipe means you can make it at home and skip the crowds. And considering Jazz Fest hasn’t happened the past two years, it’s a really good thing the internet saves…
As the temperatures are rising down here in the south, I’m lightening things up with this BLT + Avocado Bow Tie Pasta. The BLT + Avocado Bow Tie Pasta Salad is essentially everything you know and love about a BLT sandwich minus the bread, and with the addition of bow tie pasta because well, they…
For Super Bowl Sunday, I offered to make Twice Baked Seafood Stuffed Potatoes. My husband declined them for wings. You can imagine my dismay. So, I let him have his frozen wings and instead of whipping up this Crawfish Queso Dip with my thawed crawfish, waited until Monday to make the most scrumptious stuffed potatoes…
There are several things that are not only quintessentially southern but are quintessentially New Orleans. These Slow Cooker Red Beans and Rice on Mondays is one of those things. It has always been interesting to me that regardless of where you grow up in the state of Louisiana the traditions that exist in New Orleans…
I shared my Cheesy Cajun Chicken Bowtie Pasta in my monthly inRegister magazine column after posting some vacation day prep on my Facebook page (LAST YEAR Y’ALL), yet never got around to sharing it here. I only realized the mishap when compiling some favorite pasta dishes to go along with this Pecan Crusted Chicken Carbonara…