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Jambalaya is A Cajun and Creole dish that’s made up of rice, smoke sausage, cubed ham, aromatics, and pretty much any meat the cook likes or has available.

In spite of how it sounds, Jardiniere isn’t a French drug rehabilitation facility. Instead it’s a main course made up mostly of new spring vegetables such as lettuce, peas, green beans, carrots, turnips, and flavored with bacon or salt pork. It could also contain baby artichokes and young celery and fennel hearts, or cauliflower. Now doesn’t that sound more appetizing than a drug rehab? I thought so.

To Julienne something is to cut it into long thin matchstick size strips, such as French fries.

Jus is the natural juices released by roasting meats and poultry. Some sandwiches are served “Au Jus”, which means “with the meat juices”, it just sounds better in French.

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