A question for you Cajun cooks .

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MMM,MMMM....... A nice pork rib roast . Lotsa garlic and Louisiana hot sauce and into the slow cooker . A few taters on top out of the grease and a supper supremo cooks by itself . The rib section for a separate supper and enough meat for a pot of beans and perhaps some pork fried rice .

My question is what can I do with the stock ? I,m gonna let it cool and skim off the fat . What can I do with the garlicky/hot sauce marrow rich stock ? Its gotta be an ultra easy not too many fancy ingredients meal .
No large rat/beaver ingreidients please ! L:O:L .

P:S: I could use a little of the extra pork meat in the meal .
 
I had to read it twice and saw that it was pork stock.
I would shred some of the pork and reserve it. Add carrots, some shredded cabage, hominy and oregano and make the mexican soup posole. Cook until the cabbage and carrots are done, add the pork. Eat it after sqeezing fresh limes into it, add a little chopped white onion, some cilantro and a few hot corn tortillas, you are all set!
 
John ? The only hominy available up here is when me and my buddies drink .
Then we sing in poifect hominy ! L:O:L If hominy is grits ? I had them once with a texas style breakfast . It was a dark and stormy day and the grits were great .
 
I'd take the stock and some of the meat and cook enough rice in it to make a mess. When we were poor in South Arkansas that was a dinner many nights after the roast was gone.
 
Hominy is corn kernals that have been treated with lime. They end up being about four times normal size. We buy them canned. If you have any store that sell mexican foods you may be able to get them there.
 
John I,ve never had hominy so that might be a plan . Though a lot more foods are available these days I,ve never seen them .

I also like 45-70s idea . I am not the greatest rice maker . As long as its plain rice I do a good job . Its when I do that little bit extra like using stock as the liquid that things mush up or just don,t cook up well .I,ve been using more rice lately . I,m Irish so I,m a potato man . I like the vaireity available with rice and the fact I can have some wild rice in the mix to liven things up . If I can address the cooking issue that would be the route I,d go . I think that if it wasn,t a plain rice and someone had an idea how to "Swamp it up" Cajun style we,d have a winner . Up to date my idea of ethinc authenticity is to throw in a little of the local sauce and leave it at that .

Josh I,m not much up on soups . I have been thinking of working on a soup . Funny thing is ? Its a rice soup .
 
A cajun would make rice and have rice and gravy. That sums up ~80% of their meals. A cajun would not have included potatoes in the first place though and had rice and gravy with it the entire time.

Soup stock is another great option.
 
Put it in the pressure cooker and add chick peas.
When it's done add fresh cilantro, red bell pepper, more onion and simmer a few minutes.
Make some corn bread with goats milk cheese and poblano peppers chopped, inside( no seeds).
Make some white rice.
Pour the chick peas slop over the rice.
GET BEER...
 
aproy1101 said:
A cajun would make rice and have rice and gravy. That sums up ~80% of their meals. A cajun would not have included potatoes in the first place though and had rice and gravy with it the entire time.

Soup stock is another great option.
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,T,is true , t,is true . I,m an Irish Cajun . It took me many years to get used to those miniature swamp potatos you call rice . In truth me buccko, it took me almost as long to understand that those small round white golf balls that come in a can some people call " Irish potatos" actually grew in the ground and worse of all they had to be peeled . Irish potatos in a lamb stew is as close to heaven as this poor greenman is likely to get
I,ll keep your rice and gravy idea in mind . I guess you just pour some of the gravy on the rice ? Do you spice up the gravy at all? What spices would you use .

Isn,t the moss that hangs from the trees down there called Irish moss ?
There must be a little of the Emerald Isle in you swamp critters ?.
 
"SKIM THE FAT ???!!!!"

What's wrong with you, man????

You got the stock. Now add some barley, rice, chunked potatoes, carrots, and ANY meat stock you have....beef, chicken, pork...whatever. Cook. Soup should be able to hold a spoon upright. Add salt.

Go getcherself some fresh French or Italian bread, or a shepherd's loaf. Soften some butter.

Take the phone off the hook. Put on a bib. Slather that fresh bread with butter, put on some cajun music, LOUD.

Make a mess feeding yo'self.


Repeat as necessary.
 
Um. That's called Spainish Moss. Louisianna switched hands several times. Spain, France, Spain, France, then good old USA. The Brits tried for it once, but my cousin positioned General Jackson in a perfect spot to pick them off as they tried to single file off a little peninsula. Eventually the pile of bodies was so high they couldn't get over it. And that, folks is how my cousin, Jean Lafitte, got pardonned and saved New Orleans from the British Army.
 
I love Spanish moss. I wish it grew around here. Reminds me of every cheesy, black-and-white horror flick I've ever seen.
 
aproy1101 said:
Um. That's called Spainish Moss. Louisianna switched hands several times. Spain, France, Spain, France, then good old USA. The Brits tried for it once, but my cousin positioned General Jackson in a perfect spot to pick them off as they tried to single file off a little peninsula. Eventually the pile of bodies was so high they couldn't get over it. And that, folks is how my cousin, Jean Lafitte, got pardonned and saved New Orleans from the British Army.
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It seems like its more than the bodies that are piling up ! L:O:L

Spanish moss ? My bad ! I forgot the old Irish Saying .
"An Irish tree gathers no moss ."
 
Kevin the grey said:
It seems like its more than the bodies that are piling up ! L:O:L
Spanish moss ? My bad ! I forgot the old Irish Saying .
"An Irish tree gathers no moss ."
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Hey thats a true story. My dads brother still gets a check each year from his estate. One day down the road a bit, as the oldest male in the family, that check will be mine.

Maybe it becomes Irish Moss after you dip it in whiskey?
 
aproy1101 said:
Hey thats a true story. My dads brother still gets a check each year from his estate. One day down the road a bit, as the oldest male in the family, that check will be mine.

Maybe it becomes Irish Moss after you dip it in whiskey?
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No then it becomes " Irish Mist "

When you start getting your checks ? Get yourself a little pirate vessel and sail up this way .
The first round is on me . As long as its not a cannon round ! L:O:L
 
Funny thing about pirates. They weren't big on birth control, and they raped lots of women in addition to the whores they frequented. The yearly check my family gets is for one penny. You're supposed to cash them by law, but my family has a few framed in the hallway of my Momo's house.
 
aproy1101 said:
Funny thing about pirates. They weren't big on birth control, and they raped lots of women in addition to the whores they frequented. The yearly check my family gets is for one penny. You're supposed to cash them by law, but my family has a few framed in the hallway of my Momo's house.
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You aint gonna get much of a ship for that ! L:O:L
I guess you,ll have to get your ship the old fashioned way .

B:T:W: What would I add to that stock to make a Cajun style gravy ?
I know you guys ate had to eat what you could sometimes . You must have eaten high on the hog once in a while ?
 
High on the hog?


Sure that means porkchops and hams, maybe a T-loin. :D
 
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