Roux Memories: A Cajun-Creole Love Story with Recipes
Publisher: Lyons Press
Publication Date: September 2010
Roux Memories: A Cajun-Creole Love Story with Recipes
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Featured Recipe: Crab and Shrimp Burgers
In Louisiana, life happens in the kitchen. Children are reared and lives unfold over bubbling pots of gumbo, bowls of shelled peas, and shaved-ice sno-balls. The kitchen is the happy hub where heritage is conveyed, culinary traditions evolve, and Cajun and Creole cuisine is at its finest. Unfortunately when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed homes and neighborhoods and displaced hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana, bonds were stretched, and many recipes lost. Roux Memories offers more than 250 home-tested recipes along with snippets of life from a Cajun family with four decades of roots in Louisiana. Accompanying the Cajun recipes are vintage family and food photographs as well as information about the roots of Cajun and Creole cooking. Recipes include crawfish gumbo, Cajun corn soup, shrimp remoulade, New Orleans shrimp boil, hickory and spice burgers, cochon de lait, crawfish pie, alligator fritters, chicken and sausage jambalaya, pork cracklins, cracklin cornbread, dirty rice, king cake, pecan pralines, syrup cookies, and many more Cajun and Creole favorites.
Cooks&Books&Recipes {Dee} on Roux Memories cookbook:
As Belinda Hulin notes: “My mama’s etouffe may not be exactly the same as your mama’s, but you’ll recognize it as an authentic Cajun-country dish.” Indeed, the husband vouched for the Cajun recipes in this cookbook to be the most authentic he’s run across–although yes, not always the same as his… And he also “recognized” the family photos: looking at one after another as he browsed through the pages, he was transported to his Cajun past and many long-gone relatives. In addition, he discovered some dishes he’d either forgotten about (e.g., syrup cookies) or never learned how to make (e.g., shrimp bisque). As a bonus, we’ve noted many Creole dishes to try too. We are truly grateful to Belinda Hulin, who is to be commended and thanked for recording the vast number and variety of recipes in this comprehensive cookbook. Even if you have no prior knowledge of Cajun or Creole cooking or lifestyle, you’ll quickly be involved in the love affair. For our part, we’ll be re-creating past memories for years into the future.
Ready to cook up some Cajun recipes?
Roux Memories
We recommend starting with delicious Crab and Shrimp Burgers
Wow these look awesome! Come over and link these up in my Recipe 2 tab at the top of my blog! I will have to add this cookbook to my wish list. I was in Hurricane Katrina and lost all my cookbooks and hand written recipes. I’m very picky on what books I buy now. This looks like a good one!
Susie at Scraps of Life
THANKS for stopping in and linking up during my friday blog hop!! Stop back as it is up every week!
Editors, Cooks&Books&Publishers replied: — November 2nd, 2010 @ 4:05 am
Hi, Susie. So sorry to hear about your loss of cookbooks and recipes! According to Belinda Hulin, that was a major reason she wrote Roux Memories. I do think you’d love this cookbook — most definitely if you have any interest in Louisiana/Cajun/Creole cooking.
I’ll link up again to your site very soon — thanks for the invitation!