Louisiana's Award Winning Recipes

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Summary: Southern fare for a real Southerner!
Review: Well I come from the land down under and you can't get much more Southern that that! This is a delightful little book with scrumptious recipes, many of them award winners.

It is easy to read and follow with big enough words to glance at while cooking, great tips throughout, an ideal size and cleverly bound so that you can lie it flat or stand it upright - perfect for anyone that has wrestled in the kitchen with cooking books!

Easy, simple, tasty recipes covering a very wide range of ingredients. I am sure that many are old American favorites and my taste buds are looking forward to working my way through each recipe.

A great book for teaching kids basic, home made, easy recipes. Bon appetit!!!

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Summary: Southern, home-style cooking at it's best
Review: When I started reviewing the book "Louisiana's Award Winning Recipes" I expected to find some fine Cajun style recipes. While I was not disappointed and found several such recipes, it also contained many old-fashioned favorites. One of my favorites, old-fashioned skillet cornbread, was included in the text and is a recipe that is not easy to come by with most cornbread recipes including a fair amount of sugar (this one does not).

The book is divided into several sections: appetizers, beverages, breads, soups, salads, vegetables, meats, poultry, seafood, pies, tarts, and desserts. Other really good recipes include Party Shrimp and Mushrooms, Stuffed Peppers, and Poulet Luzianne. Unusual recipes that you are unlikely to find in other cookbooks include Crawfish and Corn Soup, Turtle Soup Manchac, Catfish Gumbo, Soup Du Crocodile, Jambalaya, Spicy Okra Puffs, and Creole Shrimp Stew.

This book is not about fancy cooking but the kind of dishes that you are likely to encounter at a church potluck dinner or a backyard family get-together. It is the traditional home-style cooking common to Louisiana and sure to please anyone looking for such recipes. "Louisiana's Award Winning Recipes" is a highly recommended read for those looking for Cajun style cooking or old-fashioned, traditional recipes.