Everyone (including my friends) called my maternal grandmother “MawMaw.”

MawMaw taught this old-fashioned girl how to cook like a Louisiana woman worth her salt, and it is MawMaw’s recipes that are featured in The Diary of Marie Landry.

Here I share MawMaw’s recipes, and some that I’ve come up with on my own, using MawMaw’s love of cooking as inspiration to continue her traditions in the kitchen.

Basics:

• Basic Pie Crust
• Biscuit Gravy
• Chantilly (Whipped Cream Topping)
• Chicken Broth
• Dumplings
• Graham Cracker Pie Crust
• Lattice Top Pie Crust
• No-Sugar Pear Butter
• Roux
• Vegetable Broth

Beverages:

• Watermelon-infused Water

Breads:

• Banana Nut Bread
• Biscuits
• Corn Bread
• Drop Biscuits
• New Orleans Beignets (French Doughnuts)
• New Orleans Lost Bread (French Toast)
• Pain Rustique (Country Bread)

Main Dishes:

• Bass Creole
• Chicken and Andouille Gumbo
• Chicken and Dumplings
• Boiled Crawfish – Cooking, Peeling, and Eating
• Buffalo Chicken Tenders
• Crawfish Bisque and Stuffed Shells – Part I
• Crawfish Bisque and Stuffed Shells – Part II
• Crawfish Etouffée
• Grilled-Pepper Quiche
• Jambalaya (Cajun or Brown Jambalaya)
• Jambalaya (Creole or Red Jambalaya)
• Lemon Chicken
• New Orleans Barbecued Shrimp
• Red Beans and Rice
• Roast Beef and Vegetables
• Seafood Gumbo
• Shrimp and Grits
• Shrimp Remoulade
• Spaghetti and Meatballs
• Stuffed Crabs

Side Dishes:

• Baked Potato Salad
• Creamed Spinach à la Française
• Dirty Rice
• Down-Home Green Beans and Potatoes
• Greens (Collards and Turnips)
• Mirliton Dressing
• Quinoa Timbales
• String Bean and Artichoke Casserole
• Stuffed Artichoke

Sweets:

• Ambrosia
• Blueberry Angel-food Delight
• Blueberry Pie from Scratch
• Brownies from Scratch
• Buttercream Icing
• Chocolate- and Candy-Coated Marshmallows
• Devil’s Food Cake
• Divinity
• Easter Oreos
• Fudge (Grandmaw Demoran’s Recipe)
• Key Lime Pie
• New Orleans Pralines
• Panoramic Easter Egg
• Peaches and Cream Pie
• Pecan Pie
• Petite Madeleine Cakes
• Roll-Out Cookies
• Royal Icing
• Satsuma Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
• Satsuma Custard Pie
• Stawberry Pie
• Traditional New Orleans King Cake

Kitchen Tips:

• Easiest Way to Gather and Shell Pecans
• Easy Way to Wash and Store Vegetables
• How to Cook and Freeze Canning (Kieffer) Pears
• How to Cure an Iron Pot
• How to Peel an Artichoke
• How to Peel Boiled Crawfish
• The Easiest Way to Peel Shrimp