It’s that time again . . . The figs are ripe up at Camp Dularge and I am battling the birds for them. I’m sure the guests in the camp thought I was crazy this morning while I was picking figs. I was fussing at the birds to stay up in the top of the…
And I’m not talking about crawfish, either! My good friend BB came down this week, after our first of two wonderful fishing trips (post and pics later, Tar Baby, et. al.) we were starving, so we drove down the bayou and bought some shrimp fresh off the boat. Don’t want to make you folks jealous,…
This is a recipe with a story behind it. And it’s a wonderful story. First, let me remind everyone that here at Bayou Woman, we’ve cooked shrimp stew and chicken and andouille gumbo, both pretty good representations of down-the-bayou cooking. But today, I’m going to make it easy for all of you who hail from…
LilSis and I did actually cook some of those fresh shrimp while I was up there. We were developing a signature shrimp recipe for Camp Dularge and we adapted this one from several recipes including one from Coco Marina, which I think they made quite famous. I had never had it before, but it sounded…
There may be plenty more places, but in bayou homes, for sure! I had written a draft of this post before I went to visit one of the regulars here at Bayou Woman–Steffi. I surprised her by taking her up on her offer to show me her son’s “metal house” and her “cattle trough raised…
I bought 2 pounds of beautiful shrimp at a grocery store in town. I know. It’s a shame. But most of us lost what was in our freezers after the storms, and we won’t replenish until the May season. When I cleaned them, I saved the heads and the shells to make this . ….