Independence Day Picnic Treats

This is how we do it Louisiana style.

So, do you have your picnic on today? Youngest daughter snapped the crawfish boil picture there on the left !

Here’s a few Creole recipes for your next basket! We’ve still got a day left to celebrate so share some of yours!!

This is an open thread!

Sour Cream Cole Slaw

1/2 cup mayonanaise

1/3 cup sour cream

6 stuffed olives, quartered

6 radishes, sliced thin

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

1/8 teaspoon pepper

1/2 teaspoon sugar

1 tsp vinegar

4 cups cabbage, finely shredded

Combine ingredients. Mix well. Toss Cabbage with dressing. Chill until ready to serve.

 Creole Deviled Eggs

6 hardcooked eggs

2 tablespoons tomato catsup

4 tablespoons chili sauce

1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

6 dashes hot pepper sauce

1/2 cump shrimp, chopped fine

Pepper to taste

Cuts egg in halves. Mash yolks, moisten with catsup.  Combine other ingredients. Stuff back into whites.

Southern Ambrosia

1 cup milk

1 cup heavy cream

4 egg yolks, slightly beaten

1/4 cup sugar

1 tablespoon flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

3 tablespoon sherry

4-6 satsuma oranges, sectioned

1 1/2 cups fresh grated coconut

Scald milk and cream.  Stir sugar, flour and salt into the egg yolks.  Slowly ad hot milk to egg mixture while stirring constantly.  Cook mixture on low heat until mixture coats spoon.  Stir constantly.  Add Sherry. Chill well.

Layer in a dish: custard on bottom, layer of orange sections, then coconut.  Make multiple layers of all in that order.

Have a great independence day celebration!