Hursey Shrimp Stew
I think I am going to start blogging family recipes that I have been able to duplicate. None before have every been written down. I after cooking and playing with ingredients duplicated based on tast what I ate as a child. Not many of them are written down. Those that are are mostly vague mostly on proportions of ingredients. So I had to figure it out. Gumbo took me about 8 times to get right but we will get into gumbo in a later post. My goal is to document and share theses recipes with as many people as possible to show what real Cajun cooking is like. There have been many misconceptions of Cajun cooking. People think Cajun means spicy this is a misconception as you will see with this recipe. Cajun food is very simple and had to be because families were very poor and lacked resources to make complicated meals. Also people misunderstand and think Creole meals are Cajun meals. While they have their similarities. Cajun meals are much simpler. You can read more about this here. http://www.louisianatravel.com/articles/cajun-vs-creole-food-what-difference