Category: Entrees

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Crescent City Chicken Soup

  Every family has a recipe for chicken soup. But the kind said to cure illness is often short on vegetables and chicken. It’s little more than broth, often as pale as the patients forced to eat it.  Not this one. This soup, which begins with a roux, is thick and hearty. Served over rice, […]

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DiDi’s Red Beans and Rice

Nobody has the Monday Blues in New Orleans because everyone knows they’ll enjoy a delicious  dinner that night. Monday is still red beans and rice day in many homes and restaurants in the Crescent City. The tradition dates back to the days of washboards, washtubs and clothes lines. Monday was washday, so housewives put a […]

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