Blackened seafood and fish dishes appear on many seafood restaurant menus from Louisiana along the gulf coast down to the Keys. Associated by most as a style of Cajun cuisine, it was made famous by the late great New Orleans’ chef Paul Prudhomme. Fish served blackened may appear to be burnt, but it’s actually just […]
Living in Key West we get our fair share of oysters that make it down our way from Apalachicola and points beyond. I love fresh shucked oysters on the half shell and sometimes we’re in the mood for the bivalve molluscs hen cooked on the grill. There are so many ways to do grilled oysters. […]
Found in season during the summer months and early fall, boiled peanuts are green or raw peanuts that are boiled in seasoned water for hours. Peanuts came to America from Africa sometime in the 1700’s on slave ships. During the civil war, soldiers had access to green peanuts out of the ground. Boiling them was […]