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Holiday Recipes Holiday Recipes 86 CAJUN COUNTRY RICE 87 CHICKEN ARTICHOKE & RICE CASSEROLE 89 RED BEANS & RICE WITH A TWIST 90 CHEESY BROCCOLI RICE CASSEROLE 93 MUSHROOM RISOTTO 94 SHRIMP BOWL 95 THE HISTORY OF RICE 96 SUSHI ROLLS 97 OUR RICE MILLING PROCESS 98 THE BOY ON THE BAG 99 FALCON PRODUCTS 11 WHAT IS SOFAB? 23 CREOLE TOMATOES 29 SICILIAN STUFFED VEGETABLES 35 OYSTERS 43 TRINITY ©2019 WWL-TV. All rights reserved. 55 Recipes on pages 12-82 appear with permission of WWL-TV, the Frank Davis family, and Kevin Belton. AFRICAN CONNECTIONS: Recipes on pages 81-96 appear with permission of Cajun Country Rice and recipe authors. Cajun OKRA & GUMBO Country Rice Logo and MeeMaw appear with permission of Cajun Country Rice. Southern Food and Beverage Museum Logo and National Food & Beverage Foundation Culinary Heritage Register Logo 85 RICE IN LOUISIANA appear with permission of Southern Food and Beverage Museum. 12 26 SAUSAGE BITES SHRIMP & CRAB STUFFED BELL PEPPERS 24 30 CANDIED YAMS FRANK’S OYSTER DRESSING 32 36 OYSTER PATTIES NATURALLY NOEL: VEGETABLES & RICE 38 40 MAC & CHEESE FRANKSGIVING PAST: DIRTY RICE 44 46 CABBAGE & SAUSAGE CASSEROLE BLACK-EYED PEAS 50 48 STUFFED MIRLITON WHITE BEANS & SHRIMP 52 56 OKRA GUMBO FRANK’S TURKEY ANDOUILLE GUMBO 62 58 HAM WITH CANE SYRUP GLAZE POTATO, SHRIMP & CHEDDAR SOUP 72 60 NEW YEAR’S RECIPE: PANEED PORK LOIN SPINACH SALAD 74 64 BREAD PUDDING SAUCE NATURALLY NOEL: CHRISTMAS GOOSE 74 66 EGGNOG BREAD PUDDING FRANKSGIVING N’AWLINS SLOW-ROASTED TURKEY 78 RASPBERRY ICEBOX PIE 68 GOURMET FRENCH-FRIED TURKEY 70 14 FRANK’S CHRISTMAS SWEET TATER CASSEROLE BRISKET WITH HOLIDAY BROASTED YAMS 16 76 MAYFLOWER-STYLE SECRET RECIPE THANKSGIVING CREAMED SPINACH APPLE CRISP 18 80 SAUSAGE STUFFING WITH TURKEY-OYSTER SAUCE FRANK’S CREOLE RICE PUDDING 20 82 FRANKSGIVING: SMOTHERED OKRA & TOMATOES SPOON-LICKIN’ LEMON SAUCE Chef Kevin Belton hef Kevin Belton is a gumbo of English, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asia. A French, Native American and African companion cookbook co-authored by Belton, “Big Cancestry. His mother’s family has roots in Kevin, Little Kevin-Over 120 Recipes from around the French-Caribbean island of Martinique and his Britain and America by TV’s Odd Couple,” was French-speaking father’s family came from the published by Ebury Press. In 2014, he became Bayou Lafourche area of South Louisiana, near the resident chef for the CBS affiliate WWL’s Thibodaux. morning show. The self-trained chef began cooking under the Belton has long been associated with WYES-TV watchful eye of his mother and grandmother in the as the host of several popular cooking marathons. uptown New Orleans home where he grew up. He is also a past recipient of the WYES From these talented home cooks Belton learned President’s Award, which is given annually to to prepare the venerable dishes of the city and in individuals, organizations or businesses that have his new series he’ll share family recipes and demonstrated exemplary support of public personal tips for making seafood gumbo, pralines, television in the metropolitan area. shrimp remoulade, chicken Clemenceau and many other New Orleans specialties. In 2014, he was recognized as one of the top twenty Louisiana chefs by the American Culinary Cooking instruction is second nature for Belton, Federation. who has spent almost 30 years teaching the foundation of Louisiana cooking to appreciative In his public television show Belton pulls back the audiences. In addition to the almost 7,000 lessons curtain and shows viewers what really makes the he has led, Belton has also offered classes and legendary cuisine of New Orleans so delicious. cooking demonstrations throughout the U.S. and “Everybody says you make it look so easy,” he Canada. He has been a featured chef and guest says. “I tell them, no, it is easy.” Taped in the on numerous food programs including Emeril Live; studios of WYES-TV, NEW ORLEANS COOKING Ready Set Cook; Life, Love, and Lunch; Food WITH KEVIN BELTON is a chance for viewers to Fighters; and Taste of America. meet a new host whose big personality is a perfect match for his 6’ 9” frame. Kevin is also in In 1999, he was co-host and chef on the BBC the process of filming his second series with series Big Kevin, Little Kevin, which also featured WYES, KEVIN BELTON’S NEW ORLEANS British celebrity chef Kevin Woodford. The series, KITCHEN as well as writing the companion book. taped in the United Kingdom and the U.S., aired in 6 7 IN THE KITCHEN: HOLIDAY RECIPES IN THE KITCHEN: HOLIDAY RECIPES Frank Davis rank Davis was – to borrow his trademark As the resident chef on WWL-TV’s Eyewitness phrase - as Naturally N’Awlins as they Morning News for more than 25 years, Frank Fcome. For more than three decades, appeared in thousands of cooking segments, viewers across South Louisiana and Mississippi teaching viewers how to prepare his versions of knew and loved him as WWL-TV’s resident chef, some classic New Orleans and south Louisiana outdoors expert and feature reporter. dishes. Frank, who died in 2013, always considered He also authored five successful cookbooks for himself blessed that he was able to combine his Pelican Publishing Company and produced and three loves – cooking, fishing and people — and marketed a complete line of spices and get paid for it. seasonings. The oldest of three children, Frank was first After Frank retired from WWL-TV in 2011, he assigned kitchen duty when he was seven. “I was donated his papers, including thousands of the first one home from school in the afternoon, recipes, to the Southern Food and Beverage and my dad asked me to help fix supper one Museum Culinary Library and Archives, where evening,” he once said. After dabbling in other they are accessible to chefs, culinary students careers, he found success at WWL Radio, hosting and food lovers from all across the country. a weekend talk show and contributing fishing and hunting features, then parlaying that into a job at “New Orleans is the country’s capital of cuisine,” WWL-TV. The cooking segments that followed his Davis once said. “People love what this city first outdoor reports were a natural. Superstar cooks.” chef Paul Prudhomme once called him the “number-one authority on cooking and eating the fresh fish and game of Louisiana.” “I had been fishing since I was five and always cooked whatever I caught,” Frank explained. “In discussing where and how to catch a certain fish, I would sprinkle in cooking tips about how to prepare that type of fish and got great listener response.” 8 9 IN THE KITCHEN: HOLIDAY RECIPES IN THE KITCHEN: HOLIDAY RECIPES We are always talking about food in New Orleans and Louisiana. When we are eating lunch, we are discussing What is our plans for eating dinner. On the bus we join other people’s conversations about where to get the best SoFab? snoball. In 2008, the Southern Food & Beverage Museum opened at the Riverwalk Marketplace, where it continued to grow from its beginnings as a small upstart museum. At the time that it opened SoFAB was one of the few institutions dedicated to exhibitions reflecting the intersection of food and drink culture. In 2014, the museum moved and reopened at its current location on Oretha C. Haley Blvd. SoFAB is the flagship division of the National Food & Beverage Foundation. We are celebrating our tenth anniversary in 2018 along with other important anniversaries during that year. In 2013, the John & Bonnie Boyd Hospitality & Culinary Library opened. It serves as the Culinary Branch of the New Orleans Public Library. It has the pleasure of housing the WWL-TV Frank Davis Collection in the Paul Watch the Eyewitness Morning News Prudhomme Archive at the Boyd Library. So the library is celebrating its fifth anniversary in 2018. WEEKDAYS 4:30-9am The National Food & Beverage Foundation is a nonprofit educational and cultural organization dedicated to the discovery, understanding and celebration of food, drink and its related culture and folklife in America and the world. Because everyone eats, all aspects of food and drink— culture and geography, anthropology and history, economics and politics, law and policy, media and the arts, science and technology—reveal the state of the world. NatFAB continues to grow into the nation’s most comprehensive cultural institution studying food and drink. You can participate in SoFAB by visiting, by becoming a member, by donating artifacts or books. We welcome your participation as a volunteer. It is you who have made the food culture of New Orleans and Louisiana that we celebrate in the museum. 10 11 IN THE KITCHEN: HOLIDAY RECIPES IN THE KITCHEN: HOLIDAY RECIPES Sausage Bites “My mom entertained often and of course there were all types of sweet as well as savory treats to look forward to. My mother cooked to relax and was ingenious to take a traditional local ingredient and give it a delicious new twist. This encouraged my culinary juices to soar and to create little bites of goodness in this case.” 1. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper. 1 LB SAUSAGE, UNCASED (SUCH AS ITALIAN, HOT OR TURKEY) 2. In large bowl, mix sausage, cheese, green onion 2 CUPS CHEDDAR CHEESE, SHREDDED and herb of your choice. Mix well. ½ CUP GREEN ONION, FINELY CHOPPED 3. Open puff pastry onto a work surface. Coat each side of dough with 1 tablespoon flour. Cut puff pastry 1 TSP DRIED HERB OR SEASONING OF YOUR CHOICE into about ¼-inch pieces. Add puff pastry pieces to the bowl of sausage mixture in small amounts until 1 SHEET PUFF PASTRY combined.