What is your favorite Louisiana food?

[rogerashton]

Poll question: What is your favorite Louisiana food?

[MrSandman]

1. Chicken Fried Steak

Is a Louisiana Food?

[rogerashton]

3. We are talkin' Shreveport, Louisiana here.

Mama used to make that, too. Come to think of it, except for shrimp creole (which she learned to make from her Cajun roommate) Mama wasn't that great a cook.

[MrSandman]

8. I thought you could get CFS South of Maryland.

Almost every "Home Cooking" establishment here has it.

[funkybutt]

28. ah..you must have Straun's in mind

i love their breakfast and pies too

[rogerashton]

29. No, I don't know the place.

As I said somewhere else, mother used to chicken-fry steaks once or twice a week. My pop thought they were food. I mean thought they were good. anyway.

I grew up on a cow farm and pop did his own butchering. We et what was too old and stringy to sell. Pop could make "round steak" out of pretty near any cut of the cow. Mother developed pretty good biceps pounding that stuff enough to make it tender enough to fry. I reckon that accounts for my negative opinion of chicken-fried steak.

[GumboYaYa]

31. Mmmm, Murrells Chicken Fried Steak.

I would go there after working a hard day and eat the double chicken fried steak. My mouth is watering.

[funkybutt]

32. mmm...Murrells

how about their breakfast...i love the ham they serve with breakfast!

[GumboYaYa]

33. Yeah you right.....

Hotcakes too, with lots of cane syrup.

I could also scarf down the double cheesburger there.

My dad was a George's guy, but I will always be loyal to Murrells.

[rogerashton]

2. Shrimp creole by a long mile.

Just the way mama used to make it.

[DemWitch]

4. I know the spelling is wrong...

but how could you not list Beniets? (ben-yays, benyeas?) They are the most sinfully good sweet thing I ever ate... other thanmy own cheescake that is...

[rogerashton]

10. Beignets

um, I think. Well, with beignets you need coffee. It's too late in the evenin' for coffee.

[DemWitch]

11. never too late for coffee

[fishnfla]

5. Crawfish etoufee

but i get it in Mississippi

In Lousiana, it'd be po'boys

[redqueen]

6. Jambalaya!!!!

And Chicken Fried Steak ain't Lousiana food, it's Texas food! :)

on edit: Blackened Red Snapper is a very close second.... mmmmm.... snapper....

[rogerashton]

13. Texas? We don't need no steenkin' Texas.

I'll have you know that Caddo Parish, Louisiana, is the capital of the Native American province of Texas.

"Texas" is a corruption of a Caddo Indian word meaning "Friendly" or "Allied" country. It was the territory of the Caddo-led confederation against the nomadic Comanche and Kiowa raiders. And the capital was about 5 miles from my childhood home, spang in Caddo Parish, La.

See, I'm a traditionalist. Never mind what them newfangled Spanish and Messican and Texas Revolutionary trouble-makers may have done with Texas -- I believe in the original Texas -- and northwest Louisiana is part of it. So there.

[redqueen]

14. Well I'll tip my hat to Caddo Parish, then

And to you, too, for the lesson!

:hi:

[jpgray]

7. A good bit of blackened chicken is unbelievably tasty (nt)

[daligirrl]

9. All of it. . .

if prepared by a good cajun/creole cook. My cousin married one. Her catfish etouffe was a revelation!

[lagniappe]

12. I can't live without shrimp poboys and boiled crawfish.

I go to New Orleans about 5-7 times a year, and the first meal I want is a shrimp poboy.

If crawfish are in season, I also need to get my fix of boiled crawfish.

Or, how about fresh fried oysters with a nice sauce and a margarita.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

15. Gumbo Poopah!!!

Yum City.

On the other hand, you could Etoufee' and old boot, and I would be on it like ugly on an ape.

[Rowdyboy]

16. I voted gumbo only because deep fried soft shell crabs

from Irene's, bar-b-que shrimp from Mr. B's and fried oysters at Cafe Maspero weren't listed.

[nosmokes]

17. this time of year it's too hot to be cookin' much

so it's shrimp or crawdad remoulade and a salad.

[LSU_Subversive]

18. Cane's Chicken "special sauce," fried okra, red beans & rice, and beignets

Yum.

[GOPisEvil]

19. Shrimp poboys!!!

:9

[NightTrain]

20. Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and a fillet gumbo....

Guess what I voted for? :9

[rogerashton]

24. That would be file gumbo.

File powder is, I believe, derived from Sassafras root -- a sweet root -- as is Sarsparilla, like the good cowboy often ordered.

[tedoll78]

21. My Mama's Gumbo.

Mom, if you ever read this, I love you - and you make wonderful gumbo! It's the food I think of when I get homesick. *sniff*

[Courtesy Flush]

35. You can't get real Cajun food in a restaurant

Even in Louisiana, Cajun restaurants rarely have genuine Cajun cooking. If you want the real deal, you've got to sit at the table in a Cajun's home. Some of the relatively simple dishes are the best. Chicken and sausage gumbo is one of the most incredible foods on the planet. Smothered chicken, or a well-seasoned pork roast, are absolutely to die for... but if you order them in a restaurant, don't get your hopes up.

FYI: to the non-Louisiana DUers. blackened food is not Cajun. Yes, it was invented by a Cajun, but no one deliberately blackened food before Prudhomme came along. If a Mexican chef had thought of it, we'd be calling it Mexican food.

[solinvictus]

22. Jambalaya

With andoille, chicken, and shrimp or crawfish (or both). I also love fried oyster or catfish po boys.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

23. I voted dirty rice, but just the simple classic crawdad boil is hard to

beat.

Bread pudding also merits some consideration...

[rogerashton]

25. I hereby declare Crawfish Etouffee the winner.

As for several other dishes that did not get into the poll -=- DU only allows 10 options. I did my best ....

[Magrittes Pipe]

26. Goodbye Joe, me gotta go, oh me oh my-oh.

Me gotta go pole the pirogue down on the bayou.

[funkybutt]

27. what about crawfish? or boiled crabs

seafood gumbo, okay..now i'm hungry

[GumboYaYa]

30. This is not a fair poll.

You went and put one of the best LSU cheers in there. I had no choice but to vote for that one and diss all that great food.

GEAUX TIGERS!

[EstimatedProphet]

34. 2 questions

1)What's the difference between file gumbo and okra gumbo. Both use okra.
2)Why you no have crawdad?