In New Mexico
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I’m doomed then lol
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I do most of the cooking, my stress release is cooking and shooting.
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I would have to say by the sounds of the menu you live in the South
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My mom taught me to cook,… and garden, and just how hard life is and can be!
Kamala may claim to be from a middle class family, but I have the burn scars and calloused hands of someone who has actually lived in a lower middle class household.
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Colorado actually.
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Damn high tech grinder mine is still hand turn, but mine is like me old my parents used it when I was a kid and I’m in my 60"s
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I take it when you say you love cooking Louisiana you mean Cajun ?
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That Cackling Hyena is so fake, she defies definition. She would not know reality if it bit her in the ass.
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Yes, and some French which is part of their culture. I lived in New Orleans for a couple years and ate my way through the state. But it ruined me because If I want real Cajun food I now have to cook it myself.
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Sorry family won’t let me…. I learned to cook out of necessity in college my freshman year. After 3 weeks of Student Union cafeteria cheeseburgers I called my grandma and told her I was going to starve to death. She was an amazing cook (by the whole family and all the neighbors acknowledgement) but it’d never pay attention.
For weeks she would give me a shopping list and menu of meals for the week of things she knew I loved and walk me through cooking them over the phone every night. She never wrote down a recipe, you only got ingredients and things like “enough salt to fill the center of the cupped palm of your hand” (which turns out to be about a teaspoon) 
She also gave me all her “rules” for the kitchen and about selecting spices and flavors for when you have to wing it, and how to “deconstruct” foods I liked at a restaurant so I never need a recipe. When I went home for the holidays I spent a few weeks with her cooking every day.
Now I cook like she did and my wife and kids actually monitor my cooking and write my recipes into a “Secret Family Cookbook” that my kids have sole custody of. I find the whole thing kind of funny…
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I have always been a person that eats to survive and do all my own cooking as a single old man. The insta-pot is one of the best things ever invented. Can do a mean spaghetti, but favorite is different varieties of beans. Was raised on pintos and now cook baby lima with a thick slice of ham, small reds with bacon and others. Hard to find chilies that are mild so my system can tolerate them. Want a mean steak, grilled chicken breast, grilled pork chop, even baby back ribs or great shredded pork, I can fix you up. Grandmothers, Aunts and my parents were all good cooks and taught me a lot. Oh yes, don’t forget a big pan of cornbread or even fresh bread. My son has picked up a lot of it and the grand daughters are learning quickly. Now I am hungry.
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Most of the cooking I do is outside over charcoal. My wife refuses to cook a turkey in the oven anymore. Turkeys belong outside on the Weber grill.
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My wife got me that one for Christmas. 
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Cajun is one of my favorite food. It’s really hard to find Cajun food in San Diego county. One of my good friend and co-worker is from New Orleans. We did find a few good Cajun restaurants but you gotta go closer to downtown. I usually don’t like to go down my mountain unless I have to.
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Cowboy Beans
LOVE smoked meats. Spatchcock Chicken.
Turkey Breast
Of course Pork Butt.
I also REALLY LIKE Chinese/Thai food. Chicken Pad Thai.
I dabble with cooking. A few things I’ve gotten purdy good at.
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That is the best way to go, grinding your own!
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Some of the store bought are good but grinding your own is the only way to get consistency exactly the way you want it. Great Chili powder is an art form 
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Chicken and Andouille sausage Gumbo
I first got trained in classic French then I had to sink my teeth into Cajun/ Creole. When I went into the Cajun/ Creole I found abundance of influences from Carribean, Spanish, and African influences.
In school the teacher talked about family influences, and I thought about my grandmother. She would do a grilled chicken. In my research I found out it was Cantonese chicken. I was a bit confused since she is more Swedish than anything. I figured it out that she worked as a seamstress with Korean and Chinese ladies, and she loved the smell of the chicken and got the recipe from them. So I went down the Asian Rabbit hole and I studied Chinese regional Cuisines, Korean Cuisine, Japanese Cuisine, and Thai Cuisine.
Prime Rib Yakisoba
Living in Washington State the availability of salmon is abundant and I have cooked and prepared it in many ways.
Grilled Copper River Salmon
Coho Salmon
Sockeye Salmon
Should I keep going?
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That looks incredible, Todd! 
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