Cajun Food- Louisiana
We left Louisiana a few months ago, but I never had the chance to write about the delicious Cajun food we sampled while we were there. We had some favorites, and some misses, but here it goes: Pistolettes: image credit here Pistolettes: These little fried roll things are a delicacy that I had never heard of before. It is basically a roll stuffed with etouffee of some sort, and then fried. With the wonderful gravy inside, it tastes like you're eating a slightly crunchy, flaky roll full of spicy gravy. There really are no words. We had crawfish pistolettes and cheese pistolettes, and I never found one I didn't like. étouffée: This gravy-based dish, served over rice most commonly with crawfish or other seafood cooked into it, is complex in flavor and often a little spicy. This is comfort food to the max and if I was in doubt as to what I wanted to eat, I always ordered the crawfish etouffee. Recipe and photo cred Boiled Crawfish: This is a required cultural expe...