Zydeco Salad Food

Recipe courtesy of B&C Seafood, Vacherie, LA adapted from Alton Brown's cookbook "Feasting on Asphalt". Take this to your next covered-dish dinner or picnic. Finding the Italian olive salad-the chopped olive spread that's an essential component of a muffaletta sandwich-is the trick. If you can't find it at the megamart do a search on 'Zaar, there are many authentic recipes. If you have Minor's Kalamata Olive Base, be SURE to use it in the olive spread. Three Bean Salad: B&C Seafood uses "READ" brand of three-bean salad. If you can't find it at your grocery store try www.senecafoods.com. The olive salad and canned beans marry into the lettuce and tomatoes. Zydeco comes from "les haricorts cont pas sales", which means "The beans aren't salty", an expression for hard times when there wasn't enough salt meat to season the beans. So this salad, with it's three different beans, is actually zydeco and the musical genre is named after it. Food is facinating stuff. Edited 5-18-09 I just made another batch of this, found a huge jar of the bean salad at Costco. This is so good, I could live on this salad. You really need to try this one. I made my olive salad from scratch this time with both kalamata and green olives, and will continue to go this route.

Provided by TxGriffLover

Categories     < 15 Mins

Time 5m

Yield 6-8 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 4

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 14.1, Fat 0.1, Sodium 6.8, Carbohydrate 3, Fiber 1.1, Sugar 2, Protein 0.8

Great sauce for cheeseburgers or dipping fries. Try this on a Reuben! Wow! Recipe was created by George Graham, from Lafayette, LA. He was a finalist in the $50,000 Sutter Home Build A Better Burger Contest with this sauce spread on the buns, Louisiana burgers with Root Beer Glaze, topped with Mardi Gras Slaw.

Provided by Penny Stettinius

Categories     Sauces

Time 15m

Yield 4-6 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 6

• Ingredients

Dis is da toe curlin Texicajun hybrid of a classic dish. This will put a smile on everyone's face that's eatin it. Throw on some Zydeco music and serve on a bed of rice with corn bread and a cold beer. Whew doggie...be thankful to be alive and toast all us Texicajuns!!!

Provided by Lupe Boudreaux

Categories     Soups, Stews and Chili Recipes     Stews     Gumbo Recipes

Time 2h

Yield 10

Number Of Ingredients 16

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 436.6 calories, Carbohydrate 18.5 g, Cholesterol 104.6 mg, Fat 29.3 g, Fiber 2 g, Protein 21.7 g, SaturatedFat 4.6 g, Sodium 2051.9 mg, Sugar 2.9 g

I found this on allrecipes.com. Pro member Lupe Boudreaux says, "Dis is da toe curlin Texicajun hybrid of a classic dish. This will put a smile on everyone's face that's eatin it. Throw on some Zydeco music and serve on a bed of rice with corn bread and a cold beer. Whew doggie...be thankful to be alive and toast all us Texicajuns!!!"

Provided by ElizabethKnicely

Categories     One Dish Meal

Time 2h

Yield 10 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 16

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 427.4, Fat 31.5, SaturatedFat 5.8, Cholesterol 73.5, Sodium 1326.7, Carbohydrate 17.8, Fiber 2, Sugar 4.1, Protein 18.3

This is a delicious soup that I originally found on the Better Homes and Gardens website, but I've seen it reprinted on a variety of other cooking and recipe sites. I tried to research the background so I could accurately list its origin when posting this recipe. But there doesn't seem to be any sort of consensus whether this soup is more accurately classified as a Cajun or Creole recipe. It seems to be one of those age-old questions that has no definite answer one way or the other, though most sites seem to agree that its roots are firmly planted in Louisiana. So, I'll leave it up to each individual to decide if this is Cajun or Creole.

Provided by Northwestgal

Categories     Ham

Time 1h

Yield 4 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 22

• Ingredients

Haricots verts are very slender French green beans. You can substitute other young, tender, very thin green beans. Dill heads are the matured tops of dill that contain the seeds. Use jalapeño chilies for a milder version or serrano for a spicier version. Use caution when handling fresh chilies, being careful not to touch face or eyes and washing carefully afterward.

Provided by byZula

Categories     Beans

Time 20m

Yield 6 pints

Number Of Ingredients 8

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 103.1, Fat 1.3, SaturatedFat 0.2, Sodium 2347.3, Carbohydrate 21.6, Fiber 7.1, Sugar 9.9, Protein 5.8