12th Night, King Cakes and a Learning Experience
Twelfth night brings king cakes and Mardi Gras season, with a bonus duo of compelling and fun books.
Category: Cajun-Creole
New Year’s Eve at Gumbo Cove
What’s on the menu at Gumbo Cove for New Year’s Eve 2025: a shrimp boil and focaccia.
Test Kitchen on a Dark and Stormy Night: Zippy Cajun Shrimp and Crab Toast with Corn, Bacon and Boursin
A dark and stormy weeknight was the impetus to experiment and create a new recipe: Zippy Cajun Shrimp and Crab Toast with Corn, Bacon and Boursin.
Shrimp Cobb Salad: a Winner for Dinner
Salad for dinner is a winner if it is this Shrimp Cobb Salad. This salad is the PERFECT thing to do with cooked shrimp, whether it is boiled, baked, broiled or grilled
New Recipe: Simple but Sophisticated Creamy Mascarpone Grits with Corn
This delectable side dish based on instant grits is borderline spicy, sinfully creamy with a balancing crunch from fresh corn, and super-easy!
Thanksgiving Turkey Leftovers Make GREAT Gumbo!
A public service announcement about the best thing to do with turkey leftovers – and you can create lasting memories by doing it together with the family.
Easy, Creamy, Tangy, YUM! Homemade Zippy Cajun Ranch Dressing and Dip
A simple, quick and delicious recipe for.a homemade and awesomely spiced ranch dip / sauce that is perfect for Memorial Day or ANY day when you want an easy, creamy, tangy, YUM dip or dressing.
An Afternoon with Cookbooks: In Search of Shrimp & Grits
Blessed with shrimp boil leftovers after a lovely and fun fundraiser, we did some research and decided to create the Glover Gardens Shrimp and Grits recipe. We also learned a lot about the long history of shrimp and grits.,
The Glover Gardens Chicken and Sausage Gumbo Recipe – Finally!
A time-tested and family-approved Chicken and Sausage Gumbo recipe with a step-by-step how-to guide.
A Family Cooking Class is the Final Test of the Glover Gardens Gumbo Recipe
A family cooking class was a GREAT opportunity to finalize the Glover Gardens gumbo recipe. And, what a great Gumbo Team my second cousins made… the Owens Gumbo Bros.
Eating Like It’s Jazz Fest: Congo Square Fish Nachos
We took a walk on the wild side and used blacked fish on nachos. Here’s how it went down … it’s not a recipe as much as a set of loose guidelines, kinda like jazz is.
A Mardi Gras-Ready Grocery Store
The grocery store had everything we needed, plus a coastal-Mississippi-right-before-Mardi-Gras culinary cultural tour.
Shrimp Boil Recipe, Memories, Tips and Opinions
A seafood boil is a communal experience, something you eat with your hands, get all over your face and don’t regret a messy morsel of.
The Communal Nature of Gumbo-Making
Making gumbo together is a bonding activity. You need chicken pickers, sausage slicers, vegetable choppers and a roux maker. Part 3 of the Glover Gardens Gumbo Series.
Gumbo: It’s a Family Affair
A 7th grade essay sums up how gumbo got started for us: “My family has a 35-year history with gumbo.” Part 2 of a series.
Good Gumbos are Like Sunsets
Gumbo is a jazz combo that creates a new song every time you make it. Part 1 of a series.
Meta-Jambalaya, Over-Garnished?
If jambalaya is shrimp, sausage, rice and goodies, and you already have it, why not amp it up by adding more sausage and more shrimp? It would be like meta-jambalaya!
Finally, a Trip to K-Paul’s in New Orleans
Paul Prudhomme’s cookbooks started a family tradition, and K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen is part of it.
Suire’s Wows Again: I’m in Love with Their Crawfish Fettucini
Crawfish Fettuccini from Suire’s was the perfect complement to our crab cake experiment. Creamy, spicy, homey, with tasty little morsels of crawfish. Wow!
3-Pepper Haiku, or 3 Haiku about Pepper, or the 411 on Peppercorns
Pepper is a flavor-enhancer and a magical medicinal substance. Like us, you need at least 3 grinders!
