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May
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2009
 
Colorado Cajun Cooking by NealPosted by Jim in Good Eats, Live, Local Flavor, tags: Colorado, cooking, friends, Good Eats, property, RV lifestyle
We had to wait until we got all the way back up to Colorado for some authentic crawfish étouffée and fried catfish. Huh? Yup. Our friends Lilla and Neal hail from Colorado Springs but have deep roots in Lousiana. And when we discovered they just purchased their own little piece of paradise near Westcliffe, CO, we decided to meet these fun folks and find out what developing some raw land is really like. Being treated to some serious southern fare for dinner was an added bonus. Lilla and Neal have connections back home who send them provisions unavailable in the Rockies, like blue crab claws, fresh gulf shrimp, and crawfish. And while I refuse to call crawfish “seafood” – They live in the mud! – I will admit they are quite tasty. Especially how Neal prepared them in a rich étouffée which must have contained about six sticks of butter.
It is now obvious that the trick to good fried catfish is coating the fillets with mustard before dredging them in seasoned flour. Then frying them fast, in lots of hot oil, which Neal did outside on a camping grill. We tried frying fish in our trailer once and the smell lingered for about a week. Kinda like how this rich meal lingered with us long after Lilla and Neal left us to hang out on their property while we continued our search for a little paradise of our own. We didn’t need to eat again for days. But we did, because they left us with the leftovers.
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Dang, they let my secret out……Just kidding. Thanks for the kind words I enjoyed cooking for yall.I hope the lingering wasn’t the bad type.LOL Hope to see ya again.
Love your food commentaries, Jim!
Six sticks of butter is a bit exaggerated. It was more like two, but who’s counting?
And, since the secret is out there, the roux-in-a-jar is called Savoie’s and it can be ordered online from www.cajungrocers.com.
Come back this way and we’ll be happy to serve you some more “mud bugs” and maybe some boudin, which is also referred to as blood sausage. Bet your mouth is watering at the thought!
I am so impressed that they do this kind of cooking in their rig.
As I ponder getting one myself, it’s nice to hear that yes, you can still do this kind of thing. But, on to the real point: if you’d like to share the name of that roux-in-a-jar, that would be great.
Mmmmm… if only we knew! I guess that remains Neal’s secret.
Oh OK, we’ll tell you because we like you Jeremy! Here’s Lilla’s post about the good foods. Look at the first photo to get the name of the Roux.