Recipes

Boudin Sausage from Emeril.

A silky chilled cucumber soup pureed from sautéed cucumbers and onions in chicken stock, finished with plain yogurt, and served with fresh Louisiana oysters on the half shell drizzled with lemon-shallot oil and Osetra caviar.

Delicate zucchini blossoms piped with a silky crawfish and cream cheese mousse, breaded and fried golden, served with warm lemon butter sauce.

Whole shell-on shrimp broiled under a blizzard of black pepper, olive oil, butter, lemon, Worcestershire, and hot sauce — intensely seasoned through the shells.

Lousiana Barbecued Shrimp from Essential Seafood.

Lousiana Shrimp Boil from Essential Seafood.