http://blog.realcajunrecipes.com maw-maw and dem's cajun blog Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:55:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mardi Gras is coming up on February 5th and the King Cake line at Meche's donuts is BLOCKS long. Check out this video on YouTube that shows how they are made. Ahh, I love the accents. Reminds me of home. http://blog.realcajunrecipes.com/2008/01/happy-mardi-gras/ Der's some funny videos going around the e-mail in South Louisiana with the star bein "PooPoo Broussard" That's a Cajun right dere, yeh sha. Youtube has all sorts of Cajun goodies on YouTube. The guy who wrote one of my favorite books "Cajuns: Americanization of a People", Shane Bernard has some videos ... http://blog.realcajunrecipes.com/2007/06/yall-poopoo-broussard-hits-youtube/ Thank you all for your comments on the Cajun English post. I'll be compiling them, passing them by my mom and adding a refined list to Wikipedia's page. Speaking of the Cajun Language(s), I was pleasantly surprised to see a new Cajun French blog titled "Cajun French Language Tutorials" which ... http://blog.realcajunrecipes.com/2007/03/new-cajun-french-blog-cajunlanguagenet/ I know..I know I always start blog entries out by saying I'll update more but I'm going to school full time now and working full time as well. Once I graduate in December 07, I'm going to rebuild all of RealCajunRecipes.com and make it a lot easier for Maw-Maw to ... http://blog.realcajunrecipes.com/2007/03/call-to-all-cajuns-please-build-up-wikipedias-cajun-english-article/ Back in 1997, I was a student living miserably in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Unbeknownst to me at the time, North Louisiana was not part of Cajun Country. I moved there and was soon asking, "Where are all the Catholic Churches, seafood resturants and warm people?" The people in Natchitoches had a ... http://blog.realcajunrecipes.com/2006/10/municipal-internet-in-cajun-country/ Here's a cute lil e-mail going around the Cajun circles... "Geaux", for those who don't know, is pronounced "Go." A Cajun's Family Tree His dizzy aunt.....Vertie Geaux The brother who loved prunes.....Gotta Geaux The brother with constipation problems.....Neaux Geaux The cousin who worked at a convenience store.....Stop N Geaux The grandfather from Yugoslavia.....U Geaux The nephew from ... http://blog.realcajunrecipes.com/2006/10/a-cajuns-family-tree/ I was saddened to read in the headlines today that the long-time New York Times journalist, R.W. Apple, passed away. I wrote to Mr. Apple a few years back thanking him for a wonderful article on Kaplan, Suire's Grocery, Cajun Food & Cajun History. In his article titled It Takes ... http://blog.realcajunrecipes.com/2006/10/rw-apple/ Just a friendly public service announcement; for those of you in Louisiana who have access to LPB, a show titled "Washing Away: Losing Louisiana" is replaying on LPB. Check your listings for showtimes. Watch The Trailer: Window Media iPod In the Fall of 2005, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita churned ashore ... http://blog.realcajunrecipes.com/2006/09/washing-away-losing-louisiana-playing-tonight-on-lpb/ This song has been making it's way around the Cajun e-mail circles. According to the kbon.com forums, it's by a band called "The Honky Tonk Band." Listen here and sing along. I'm just a a Swire from Grand Chenier I drink my beer and moonshine too I love de rain. And Mary Jane. I ... http://blog.realcajunrecipes.com/2006/07/just-a-suire-from-grand-chenier/ The "Maw-maw" of RealCajunRecipes.com, my mom, grew up working on various farms with her 8 siblings. Though now many Cajun families are smaller (I have 3 siblings), Cajun famlies back then were big because of their religion (Catholicism) and because children in poor families were needed to work on the ... http://blog.realcajunrecipes.com/2006/06/maw-maw-writes-about-working-on-farms/