Recipe Categories
Seafood
Cajun/Creole
Cajun Shrimp
4
Tbsp. bacon drippings or butter
2 Tbsp. flour
2 small onions, chopped
1 c. chopped celery
1/2 green pepper, chopped
2 c. cleaned shrimp
dash of Tabasco
2 c. tomatoes
2 c. diced okra
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
2 c. water
1 bay leaf
Brown flour slightly in the fat. Add onion, celery, and pepper. As these begin
to brown, add remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer at
least 45 minutes. Serve on fluffy rice.
Perhaps
all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act,
just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in
its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
-
Rainer Maria Rilke