I enjoyed the posts of the Louisiana natives so much in Shoneyboy & Chef JJ recent seafood efforts that I thought I would post the Creole food that is around me here. It comes from our Mauritian community .Their melting pot is French,African,Indian & Chinese.
I spent most of yesterday with a young man assigned to work with me whose heritage is Mauritian ,my Doctor migrated from there as a child & there is a family in my street.
My Doctor tells me that the Creole her family speaks is very close to the Creole she hears in American Zydeco music.
The food has French names but non french ingredients.They do some wild curry.
I thought it might interest the forum members who cook Louisiana down home food to see the same style but different from an Island off the coast of Africa.
Exactly what seafood I use will depend what I can get on the way home.
I spent most of yesterday with a young man assigned to work with me whose heritage is Mauritian ,my Doctor migrated from there as a child & there is a family in my street.
My Doctor tells me that the Creole her family speaks is very close to the Creole she hears in American Zydeco music.
The food has French names but non french ingredients.They do some wild curry.
I thought it might interest the forum members who cook Louisiana down home food to see the same style but different from an Island off the coast of Africa.
Exactly what seafood I use will depend what I can get on the way home.