RealCajunRecipes.com is featured in an article in this week’s edition of the Kaplan Herald. From what I can tell, we are even on the front page!

The Herald is a really small newspaper publication but I grew up with it and I’m proud to be on it. This is actually the second the time RCR is featured in it. The first time around comes with a funny story.

My Maw-maw LeMaire lived in the same apartment in Kaplan ever since I was born. After all her 8 kids moved out, she had to move into a smaller apartment. I visited her there one time and a week after the first RCR article appeared in the Herald, I was visiting Kaplan and I went to see my grandma again.

I approached my maw-maw’s apartment and knocked on the door. An unfamiliar face answered. She looked to be about my grandma’s age and was surprised to see this unknown visitor so late at night. "Uhhmm. You aren’t my grandma" I said, surprised. She laughed and said "No baby. Your grandma lives next door." Weird. How does she know? "How do you know who I am?", I asked. "Well sugar, I saw you in da paper."

At this point I couldn’t help but burst out laughing. "Only in a small town" I thought. I was glad to have my girlfriend, Delia, there to see it. She’s from the Bay area in California and this was quite a new experience for her.

So we’re back in the K-town paper and already people are signing our guestbook. Hoorah I’d provide a direct link but because of spam bots, I disabled direct linking to the /guestbook/ section. 

The article can be read here. Thanks Ms. Judy for letting us talk about our site in "da paper". We really appreciate it!

Although Northern Louisiana is called "Sportsman’s Paradise" we’ve got quite a paradise down in Cajun Country as well. One of my favorite past times as a kid was hunting with my step-dad. I’d bring my BB gun but I always left my 4-10 at home. It’s potential "kick" always scared me.
 
My friend Dennis Menard recently sent me some great pictures that I think you will all enjoy. When he sent all the picture, he told me he practically lives outside and from the looks of the pictures, he’s not exaggerating.

When I showed my friends out here in California, they all mentioned how different of a life I must have had in Louisiana. It’s true, it was really different and I loved it. They especially liked the pictures of the children holding big ol bull frogs. "Kids out here would run screaming.." they said. hee. It’s probably true.

So now..on to the pictures..

The first picture you see there is of Dennis holding a gigantor bull frog. Frog hunting is done at night, I think. I’ve never done it myself but I recall my brother’s friends asking if we had a "big bull frog light" (the answer is yes) that they could use to go frog hunting the next morning before sunrise.

The other pictures are of Dennis’ children holding some of the other frogs he caught. Yum. If you wonder what we do with these frogs, we cut off their legs and fry it or throw it in a frog leg sauce piquante.

The next two pictures are of catfish and ducks. Delicious!