Paul: The mother-in-law is with us for a week at Christmas.  She is dominating the house. When the mother goes back to Houston on the 29th, I'll then send the procedures for frying turkeys and a recipe for upscale dirty rice to the list.  This is not your grandmother's formulation for dirty rice. Best wishes, T-Louis ----- Original Message ----- From: acadian-request@rootsweb.com To: acadian@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2010 3:00:03 AM Subject: ACADIAN Digest, Vol 4, Issue 256 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to Acadian-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- Today's Topics:    1. Holiday Traditions & Culture - Admin Note (Paul L LeBlanc)    2. Re: Holiday Traditions & Culture - Admin Note (Fr John L)    3. Lighting of the way for Papa Noel this evening. (Paul L LeBlanc)    4. Frying Turkeys (Paul L LeBlanc) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:14:16 -0500 From: Paul L LeBlanc <pleblan@aim.com> Subject: [ACADIAN] Holiday Traditions & Culture - Admin Note To: acadian@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <8CD71945DA5636B-10C0-19E2A@webmail-m012.sysops.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"  Cousins Let us take our Holiday break.  Please share holiday stories, traditions, & recipes.   Try and include at lease one recipe from one of our other homelands on your table. Ask if you remember a Grandma speciality disk & the recipe was lost to the family or you would like variations. Share your favorite tradition and we will compare how it has changed in the last 250 years. We can continue the discussion until King's Day (Jan 6). Paul   = ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:35:31 -0500 (EST) From: Fr John L <owentagart@aol.com> Subject: Re: [ACADIAN] Holiday Traditions & Culture - Admin Note To: acadian@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <8CD719754FB401C-D18-25DA1@webmail-d012.sysops.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"    Joyeux No?l. Bonne et Heureuse Ann?e.  Et Le Paradis A La Fin De Vos Jours.  --  Mais ne soyez donc pas press?s.   Merry Christmas.  Good and Happy New Year.  And Heaven When Your Days Come To An End.  -- But don't be in any hurry! Fr John L -----Original Message----- From: Paul L LeBlanc <pleblan@aim.com> To: acadian <acadian@rootsweb.com> Sent: Fri, Dec 24, 2010 10:15 am Subject: [ACADIAN] Holiday Traditions & Culture - Admin Note Cousins Let us take our Holiday break.  Please share holiday stories, traditions, & ecipes.   Try and include at lease one recipe from one of our other homelands on your able. Ask if you remember a Grandma speciality disk & the recipe was lost to the amily or you would like variations. Share your favorite tradition and we will compare how it has changed in the last 50 years. We can continue the discussion until King's Day (Jan 6). Paul   ------------------------------ o check our Archive ttp://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/acadian/ ------------------------------ o subscribe to the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'subscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the essage.  You will receive a confirmation e-mail to try & stop "machine" nrollment spam.  Give it the "Name" you would like us to call you. ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:50:50 -0500 From: Paul L LeBlanc <pleblan@aim.com> Subject: [ACADIAN] Lighting of the way for Papa Noel this evening. To: acadian@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <8CD719978E7ABA5-10C0-1A3CB@webmail-m012.sysops.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"  On the First Acadian Coast, St-James (civil) Parish, tonight there will be the lighting of very fancy bonfires on the levees to show Santa the way down the river. The other story is to provide a guide for the families to find their way to midnight mass. The other name you may know is St-Jacques de Cabannoce. The church was named for my 6th great grandfather Jacques Cantrelle patron saint. His two son-in-laws were the first Commandants (like in Zorro) during the transfer period from France to Spain. There should be several news shorts on the building & lighting of the bonfires on the New Orleans & Baton Rouge TV stations. Some are Baton Rouge                                                                             www.wafb.com/-CBS                                                                             www.wbrz.com/ -ABC                                                                                                              www.nbc33tv.com/- NBC                                                                        New Orleans                                                                             www.abc26.com/                            - ABC                                                                                                              www.wdsu.com - NBC                         www.wwltv.com/- CBS                                                                             www.fox8live.com - Fox? The national stations news may also pick up the stories Paul                                                                         ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:29:50 -0500 From: Paul L LeBlanc <pleblan@aim.com> Subject: [ACADIAN] Frying Turkeys To: acadian@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <8CD719EEC1BCA83-10C0-1AA02@webmail-m012.sysops.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"  A (semi-) new tradition in south Louisiana (& east Texas) is the outdoor frying of small turkeys. You take a 8 to 12 pound thawed turkey, inject it with seasoning and deep fry in peanut oil. Before I moved up here caused by Hurricane Katrina. At noon, Nubby would shut down the Auto Repair shop and start the butane burners. All the guys would come by with their turkeys and a case of beer. Sometime during the afternoon your turkey would take it's turn in the fryers. This was one of the few times of the year the blue and white collars would get together.  The "blues" provided the place & equipment. One of the White collars was the local Planters rep. & he provided the peanut oil. I was designated driver so would provide "taxi" service bringing the gang home. About 4 PM the wives would show up and pick up the last of the straggles. Since moving up I have to become "an American" and have to order a fried turkey from the store.  Boohiss Paul      ------------------------------   End of ACADIAN Digest, Vol 4, Issue 256 ***************************************

Paul, My entire Thibodeaux Family line (23) have been here in our home since Monday and will all be gone by Tuesday. This is the first time for some to ever be here in Louisiana and the first time in 19 years we have all been under one roof sharing everything, cousins sleeping everywhere. No one stayed in a hotel. Started out great , had jambayla one night , shrimp gumbo another night , our son and wife brought crawfish pie. Had great Christmas dinner planned, had 4 family members needing to go to emergency room, results strep-throat. So Christmas dinner was really just turkey and left overs from the previous meals. Today it was a huge pot of beef & veggie soup. Youngest great-niece lost her first tooth at the age of 41/2 and 2nd tooth is also loose. I wanted this to ber a memorable Christmas I guess they won't forget Christmas at Aunt Shirley and Uncle John's home. It;'s been great having my family here in our home. It was a time where both my brother and I were able to explain and share with our chidren the history of our ancestors and our life as children with our parents who were both deaf. It also was a time where my brother and I with our families visited our parents, grandparents and aunts grave together as a family. Imagine a group of 23 people standing around a grave in St. Johns Cemetery wisiting loved ones and sharing funny stories about each one of them. What a great Christmas for me, as I know this will be the last time we will possibly all be togethert again in my lifetime. God is good and I have been Blessed. Shirley Thibodeaux LeBlanc. ----- Original Message ----- From: <laleblanc78@comcast.net> To: <acadian@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 5:45 PM Subject: Re: [ACADIAN] ACADIAN Digest, Vol 4, Issue 256 > > > Paul: > > > > The mother-in-law is with us for a week at Christmas. She is dominating > the house. > > > > When the mother goes back to Houston on the 29th, I'll then send the > procedures for frying turkeys and a recipe for upscale dirty rice to the > list. This is not your grandmother's formulation for dirty rice. > > > > Best wishes, > > > > T-Louis > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: acadian-request@rootsweb.com > To: acadian@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2010 3:00:03 AM > Subject: ACADIAN Digest, Vol 4, Issue 256 > > > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send > an email to Acadian-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message ------------------------------- > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Holiday Traditions & Culture - Admin Note (Paul L LeBlanc) > 2. Re: Holiday Traditions & Culture - Admin Note (Fr John L) > 3. Lighting of the way for Papa Noel this evening. (Paul L LeBlanc) > 4. Frying Turkeys (Paul L LeBlanc) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:14:16 -0500 > From: Paul L LeBlanc <pleblan@aim.com> > Subject: [ACADIAN] Holiday Traditions & Culture - Admin Note > To: acadian@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <8CD71945DA5636B-10C0-19E2A@webmail-m012.sysops.aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > Cousins > > Let us take our Holiday break. Please share holiday stories, traditions, & > recipes. > > Try and include at lease one recipe from one of our other homelands on > your table. > > Ask if you remember a Grandma speciality disk & the recipe was lost to the > family or you would like variations. > > Share your favorite tradition and we will compare how it has changed in > the last 250 years. > > We can continue the discussion until King's Day (Jan 6). > > Paul > > > > > = > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:35:31 -0500 (EST) > From: Fr John L <owentagart@aol.com> > Subject: Re: [ACADIAN] Holiday Traditions & Culture - Admin Note > To: acadian@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <8CD719754FB401C-D18-25DA1@webmail-d012.sysops.aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > Joyeux No?l. Bonne et Heureuse Ann?e. Et Le Paradis A La Fin De Vos > Jours. -- Mais ne soyez donc pas press?s. > > Merry Christmas. Good and Happy New Year. And Heaven When Your Days Come > To An End. -- But don't be in any hurry! > > Fr John L > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul L LeBlanc <pleblan@aim.com> > To: acadian <acadian@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Fri, Dec 24, 2010 10:15 am > Subject: [ACADIAN] Holiday Traditions & Culture - Admin Note > > > > Cousins > Let us take our Holiday break. Please share holiday stories, traditions, & > ecipes. > Try and include at lease one recipe from one of our other homelands on > your > able. > Ask if you remember a Grandma speciality disk & the recipe was lost to the > amily or you would like variations. > Share your favorite tradition and we will compare how it has changed in > the last > 50 years. > We can continue the discussion until King's Day (Jan 6). > Paul > > > > ------------------------------ > o check our Archive > ttp://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/acadian/ > ------------------------------ > o subscribe to the list, please send an email to > ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com > ith the word 'subscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of > the > essage. You will receive a confirmation e-mail to try & stop "machine" > nrollment spam. Give it the "Name" you would like us to call you. > ------------------------------ > o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com > ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > he message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:50:50 -0500 > From: Paul L LeBlanc <pleblan@aim.com> > Subject: [ACADIAN] Lighting of the way for Papa Noel this evening. > To: acadian@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <8CD719978E7ABA5-10C0-1A3CB@webmail-m012.sysops.aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > On the First Acadian Coast, St-James (civil) Parish, tonight there will be > the lighting of very fancy bonfires on the levees to show Santa the way > down the river. The other story is to provide a guide for the families to > find their way to midnight mass. > > The other name you may know is St-Jacques de Cabannoce. The church was > named for my 6th great grandfather Jacques Cantrelle patron saint. His two > son-in-laws were the first Commandants (like in Zorro) during the transfer > period from France to Spain. > > There should be several news shorts on the building & lighting of the > bonfires on the New Orleans & Baton Rouge TV stations. > > Some are > > Baton Rouge > www.wafb.com/-CBS > www.wbrz.com/ -ABC > > www.nbc33tv.com/- NBC > > > New Orleans > www.abc26.com/ - ABC > > www.wdsu.com - NBC > > www.wwltv.com/- CBS > www.fox8live.com - Fox? > > The national stations news may also pick up the stories > > Paul > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:29:50 -0500 > From: Paul L LeBlanc <pleblan@aim.com> > Subject: [ACADIAN] Frying Turkeys > To: acadian@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <8CD719EEC1BCA83-10C0-1AA02@webmail-m012.sysops.aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > A (semi-) new tradition in south Louisiana (& east Texas) is the outdoor > frying of small turkeys. > > You take a 8 to 12 pound thawed turkey, inject it with seasoning and deep > fry in peanut oil. > > Before I moved up here caused by Hurricane Katrina. At noon, Nubby would > shut down the Auto Repair shop and start the butane burners. > > All the guys would come by with their turkeys and a case of beer. Sometime > during the afternoon your turkey would take it's turn in the fryers. > > This was one of the few times of the year the blue and white collars would > get together. The "blues" provided the place & equipment. One of the White > collars was the local Planters rep. & he provided the peanut oil. > > I was designated driver so would provide "taxi" service bringing the gang > home. About 4 PM the wives would show up and pick up the last of the > straggles. > > Since moving up I have to become "an American" and have to order a fried > turkey from the store. Boohiss > > Paul > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > End of ACADIAN Digest, Vol 4, Issue 256 > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To check our Archive > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/acadian/ > ------------------------------- > To subscribe to the list, please send an email to > ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message. You will receive a > confirmation e-mail to try & stop "machine" enrollment spam. Give it the > "Name" you would like us to call you. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message