Fish And Beef Sausage Etouffee

Add 2 tablespoons vegetable oil in a large pot

1 pound beef sausage, diced

Cook sausage in pot and take out and set a side keep sausage dripping

Cook in the sausage dripping

4 stalks celery, diced

1 large onion, diced

1 green bell pepper, chopped

4 cloves garlic, minced

When veggie is done push to the side of pan and add

4 tablespoons all-purpose flour stir into the veggie about 5 mins

Add a large can dice tomatoes and the cooked sausage. add 1 teaspoon each thyme leaves,parsley flakes, basil leaves and 1 large bay leaf simmer bout 10 mins

1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

Add chicken broth or water if too thick

Stir in 1 pound fish

cook fish until done, 2 to 3 more minutes. Season with salt and black pepper.

eat over hot cooked rice.

HasselBack Potatoes

This really is an easy recipe.Your love ones and friends will want more of these nice good looking
handmade potatoes. be sure to give the potatoes a good scrub with a Vegetable Brush before you cook them.

4  Large Russet potatoes wash real Good

4 tablespoon real butter (thinly sliced)

Black pepper and salt to taste

Olive oil

8 ozs cheese pick your favorite

16 ozs thick-cut bacon (cooked and crumbled)

Dip Sour Cream

Place each potato on a wood spoon on one side (lengthwise).  Slice potato about 3/4 of the way through.  The wood spoon will keep you from cutting all the way through. Cut about 1/8 thick.  Drizzle potatoes with olive oil and place a piece butter in every other slices.  Sprinkle with salt and pepper and bake for about 1 hour.

The potatoes will opened up so you can stuff with cheese and bacon.Return to oven and cook for 5 minutes until cheese is melted.