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Creole Braised Pork Shanks with Sweet Potato Gravy
October 5, 2015 by Sandra 7 Comments
Creole Braised Pork Shanks with Sweet Potato Gravy is a recipe that I believe my mother and aunts would have been proud of. My parents were of Creole heritage and moved from Louisiana to Michigan in the fifties, and this is where I was born. As a little girl, my other and I traveled south to Beaumont, Texas each summer. This was the home of her brother John and his wife Ida. I could listen to Aunt Ida talk all day. She spoke with a Creole dialect and she was the queen of rusty gravy. Whenever we arrived, she would always have some waiting for me. Unfortunately, she passed before I could even try to get her recipe.
Rarely did my…
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