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Article: Maque Choux combines best of culinary traditions
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- October 28, 2009
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It's hard to believe it has taken so long for this Cajun classic
to arrive in the Desperation Dinners test kitchen because one of our
favorite challenges is to take traditional recipes and "desperize"
them for busy cooks.
But since this savory vegetable stew, called Maque Choux,
stretches five minutes longer than our usual 20-minute limit, we
kept putting it off.
Finally, we came to our senses and realized that Maque Choux
(pronounced "mock shoe") is so delicious and complex that we
shouldn't get hung up over five minutes.
The origins of Maque Choux trace back to the Acadian French and
Native American roots of southern Louisiana. And like a lot of
country cooking, Maque Choux combines the ...