I’m a proud Georgia native, but I spent my elementary school years in Louisiana. My young mother did not know anyone when she moved from the Southeast and chose to learn her new home and its people by ...

Chef and co-owner Jerry Amato's Shrimp Creole at Mother's Restaurant in New Orleans. (Photo from Mother's) Jerry Amato, chef and co-owner of the popular Mother's Restaurant in New Orleans, died March ...

This simple shrimp creole is the perfect recipe to get you out of your dinner rut. The opposite of boring, it's loaded with spices, garlic and hot sauce. It uses pantry staples including canned ...

Folks in Louisiana understand how to use seafood in simple comfort food. Take shrimp Creole, for example, an easy, spicy tomato sauce to which shrimp are added at the end. To make Cajun seasoning at ...

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In a large sauce pan, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the onions, peppers, celery and garlic. Cook the vegetables until the onion is translucent, approximately 6 minutes. Stir in the stock, ...

Chef John Besh remembers the tomatoes of his childhood, the Creole variety that grew in the rich silt deposits of the Mississippi Delta. Those tomatoes—“ugly and deformed, split to the point of ...

f you can get your hands on fresh shrimp with heads still on, use them here, chef Alex Patout says. Just increase the poundage. The shrimp flavor from using the heads in stock will make a big ...

This Easy Shrimp Creole recipe brings the heart of New Orleans right to your kitchen in under an hour and all in one pot! This classic dish is flavor-packed and full of perfectly cooked plump shrimp ...

I learned this recipe when I briefly lived in New Orleans as a young woman. It was served in a casual restaurant, where I was told that the bayou and marsh shrimp had shells so fragile they could be ...

Vallery Lomas’s spicy shrimp Creole delivers weekend depth of flavor in a fraction of the time. By Emily Weinstein I’ll keep this brief this week, as we all run headlong into Thanksgiving, ...