Cajun Fish Recipes

Tasty and spicy but not too spicy is how you could sum up Cajun cuisine. There is a characteristic blend of ingredients and cooking methods that follow tradition and that includes Cajun fish recipes. Seafood plays an important part in that tradition and is often combined with favorite vegetables, rice and seasonings. Cooking is often based on fish stock or shellfish stock. Fresh herbs, paprika and ground cayenne pepper give dishes a distinctive flavor. Onion, bell pepper and celery are key to many dishes.

Shellfish is often used and the most popular is crawfish, shrimp, blue crab and oysters. Freshwater fish is likely to be bass, white perch, and yellow perch. Catfish is increasingly popular as the commercial farming of the fish grows. T...

Bean Salad Recipes

There are many reasons to eat beans. They are a source of protein and they are suitable as part of a low fat diet. Bean Salad recipes are a tasty way of including beans in a healthy lifestyle and they can be enjoyed by vegetarians with many recipes also being appropriate for vegans. There are a wide variety of beans, used across the world, such as broad beans, runner beans, soybeans, mung beans and lima beans.

The beans can be used fresh or some can be bought in cans. Getting to know your favorite beans is all part of the fun and some beans in Bean Salad recipes may be unfamiliar. If there is a bean that does not appeal to you, then it is simple to substitute another although most people with a taste for beans tend to enjoy them all.

Green beans with onions, basil and potatoes are very tasty when added to a balsamic vinaigrette, made from lemon ju...

Tabasco Sauce is truly the most versatile and healthy condiment you\'ll find!

McIlhenny\'s Tabasco Sauce(R) has a long and illustrious history and is the most famous of hot pepper sauces in the world. Beginning in 1868, the McIlhenny family produced a modest 350 bottles of this hot pepper sauce. Today, about 500,000 bottles roll off the production line each day! For those who are unfamiliar with the Tabasco Sauce(R) lore, here are a few tidbits, as well as some of the many health benefits you can realize by freely indulging in this condiment.

Legend has it that a man brought some fresh Capsicum peppers to Mr. McIlhenny in the early 1860s. He found them to be so tasty, he saved the seeds and grew some more of these delicious peppers on his own property, Avery Island, in Louisiana. The taste of this particular variety of capsicum proved so fascinating to Mr. McIlhenny, he was soon growing a rather...