Easy free Cajun/Creole Recipes

The best way to know the cooking of New Orleans is to be raised there. The second best way is to check out our Cajun recipes and Creole recipes, all hailing from the colorful streets of America’s Mardi Gras capitol. While Creole recipes revolve around the grand cuisines of France and Spain with a touch of New Orleans, Cajun cooking is simple, with a purely local flavor. But both the Cajun and Creole cuisines share such ingredients as crab, river shrimp, lake shrimp, oysters, crawfish, frogs and turtles. From gumbo to jambalaya to turtle soup, there are hundreds of different Cajun and Creole recipes and the only requirement for making them is that you enjoy your culinary achievements. The Cajuns and Creoles take their food seriously, but have a lot of fun with it. You should too.