Cajun! ~ Foamheart

[foamheart]

I saw this today and thought I would share it. I lived about a 1/2 from that meat market while going to college. I won't tell you how long ago that was....LOL

Its a little long but its a really good representation of how we make sausages.



I hope you enjoy it.

I love fresh frog legs, fried, grilled or BBQ'd!!

 

[BuckeyeSteve]

Great Video.
Reminds me of an old Wendy's commercial, "Parts is parts".

 

[daveomak]

Thanks for the tour.... Great tour... I should go there...

 

[foamheart]

Great Video.
Reminds me of an old Wendy's commercial, "Parts is parts".

Thats how ya make boudin.... parts is parts and liver!

 

[foamheart]

Thanks for the tour.... Great tour... I should go there...

You'd enjoy it!

 

[old sarge]

I certainly enjoyed watching the video. Stirs up the appetite for sure! Many thanks.

 

[ksblazer]

Always enjoy your Cajun cooking that you share with us on this forum Foamhart.

I really need to go down to Louisiana and experience that food and atmosphere.

 

[indaswamp]

Skin......

Yep, legit. Thanks for posting Foam...been a while since I've been there, need to make a stop next redfishing trip I make...

 

[indaswamp]

Skin......

Yep, legit. Thanks for posting Foam...been a while since I've been there, need to make a stop next redfishing trip I make...

And I pass right by the cajun fresh market on my way to and from redfishing. I've stopped there numerous times. Good people.

 

[foamheart]

I certainly enjoyed watching the video. Stirs up the appetite for sure! Many thanks.

My pleasure Sarg, Glad ya liked it. Its definitely akin to home today.

 

[foamheart]

Always enjoy your Cajun cooking that you share with us on this forum Foamhart.

I really need to go down to Louisiana and experience that food and atmosphere.

Its like anywhere else, is a geographic identity based on historical influences. The land is tuff for pioneers, but the original pioneers were tuff. So tuff they were kicked outta France for being non-conformists. They were shipped off to Nova Scotia a new world development. After the land was cleared and the crops sown they got kicked out for being, you guessed it, non-conformists! All their cleared lands were seeded and sold by the "Company", they were again put on a boat and sent to Southern Louisiana to populate even another nasty wilderness settlement. They were non-conformists because they didn't want government interference.

 

[HalfSmoked]

Great feature Foamy but dang where was the popcorn MAN.

In all honesty it was a great video and very interesting. I too love frog legs.

Warren

 

[Bearcarver]

Great Video!! Thanks Foamy!!
All Looks Mighty Tasty!!

Bear

 

[foamheart]

Great feature Foamy but dang where was the popcorn MAN.

In all honesty it was a great video and very interesting. I too love frog legs.

Warren

Thanks. I used to get my boudin every weekend at that shop in college, and that was a long time ago. There used to be two or three butcher shops right there and I always wondered if the colabrarated on their efforts.

The problem with frog legs is...... The commercial frozen ones totally suck! Fresh I have frozen a couple of times, yes only a couple, we frozen them so they were submerged in H2O. Not bad, but how many times do you have you have more fresh frogs than you'll eat?

We always frogged in the cane and rice weir ditches at the camp, and we'd only frog till the first gator we saw that was as big as us. LOL You'll never forget which color eyes to grab and which to avoid....LOL

 

[foamheart]

Great Video!! Thanks Foamy!!
All Looks Mighty Tasty!!

Bear

Bear I would have loved to have gone froggin with you. I bet it would have been a blast. I know you wouldn't have been a weenie city boy and wanted a gig. LOL

 

[Bearcarver]

Bear I would have loved to have gone froggin with you. I bet it would have been a blast. I know you wouldn't have been a weenie city boy and wanted a gig. LOL

LOL---When I was little I used a BB gun, while my Dad & Big Brother used 22 cal rifles.
Later I used a 22 cal too, but we had smaller frogs around here.
Down your way I might have used my Model #88 (308 Winchester) or my 3040 Krag for those Cajun Bullfrogs!!

Bear

 

[foamheart]

LOL---When I was little I used a BB gun, while my Dad & Big Brother used 22 cal rifles.
Later I used a 22 cal too, but we had smaller frogs around here.
Down your way I might have used my Model #88 (308 Winchester) or my 3040 Krag for those Cajun Bullfrogs!!

Bear

Awwww man.... you just jump in, its only about waist deep and remember not to grab the ones with red eyes. If you do hope they are not too far apart....LOL

 

[bluewhisper]

Maybe I have my history wrong. I thought the Cajun story went like this:

The Adacians were French Catholics, and when France turned Protestant they refused to convert so they were exiled to French Canada. Go live with the godless savages.

Fast forward, the British defeat the French (Seven Years' War aka French and Indian War?) and since the British were Protestant, too, they burned the Acadians out of their homes and sent them off.

They went down the Eastern Seaboard looking for a place to settle, and no one would have them. Even Spanish Catholic Florida turned them away.

Finally they landed in Louisiana, via New Orleans, and they settled in the swamps where no one else wanted to live.

Is that incorrect?

 

[foamheart]

Maybe I have my history wrong. I thought the Cajun story went like this:

The Adacians were French Catholics, and when France turned Protestant they refused to convert so they were exiled to French Canada. Go live with the godless savages.

Fast forward, the British defeat the French (Seven Years' War aka French and Indian War?) and since the British were Protestant, too, they burned the Acadians out of their homes and sent them off.

They went down the Eastern Seaboard looking for a place to settle, and no one would have them. Even Spanish Catholic Florida turned them away.

Finally they landed in Louisiana, via New Orleans, and they settled in the swamps where no one else wanted to live.

Is that incorrect?

Pretty much, isn't that what I said? Back then the Church and State were pretty much inseparable both in the commerce and finance business. Nobody wanted them because they did not want to be governed. Basically we ain't giving you a share of what we made ourselves. I am pretty sure that their belief in God was more a non-belief in taxes and tithes.

 

[bluewhisper]

I wonder how many Cajun meat/sausage recipes and traditions can trace all the way back to how they did things when they were still in France.

And what about fish? They must have fished in France and Nova Scotia, and some parts of Louisiana have water.