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Chicken and Sausage because I do not feel the need to spend $100 on good seafood to make a shrimp/crab/oyster gumbo. OOoo with some potato salad. Fuuuuuck I want some Gumbo.
14 Responses so far
October 22nd, 2008
10:02 am
You can keep the gumbo, I’ll take the potato salad. A friend, originally from Louisiana, offered me some gumbo he had whipped up. YUCK!
October 22nd, 2008
10:29 am
Either that gumbo was crap or you are totally INSANE! You should try my gumbo before making a final judgment.
October 22nd, 2008
2:32 pm
Dude! My husband from KANSAS even likes good gumbo! It is possible to have bad gumbo just like anything else.
Jen, you think he had some made by a person that thinks blonde roux is acceptable? That crap is nasty. The roux is the secret. Oh and really, really fresh okra that disappears instead of remaining in green, gloppy chunks. That’s why I don’t make it – my sister does. She has perfected a great roux and her father-in-law and a friend grow the best okra ever. It flavors without the slime. Perfection. I also like file’ in mine. There’s a restaurant here in Houston, The Ragin’ Cajun and it used to be owned by a perennially drunk coon-ass from Lake Arthur and it was like eating in your maw-maw’s back yard under the pecan trees, cher! Pooh-yie! It was bought by one of the big Italian restaurant families here – they serve gumbo without any file’ on the tables or even available! A travesty! I can’t tell you how many times I have complained to no avail.
Mark you got to get some good gumbo, you, cher. (I speak fluent flat Cajun English as a second language.)
October 22nd, 2008
3:11 pm
Actually, the guy who made it hails from Shreveport, which a former co-worker from Baton Rouge considered a “Yankee” town. So maybe that had an effect on his gumbo.
Take turkey, for example. I hate most preparations of it except for ground turkey. I was at a function where this guy almost swore that his deep-fried turkey would make a convert out of me. Didn’t happen.
Liked the mashed potatoes with horseradish though.
October 22nd, 2008
3:17 pm
raises hand
please ma’am, more gumbo?
October 22nd, 2008
3:22 pm
No self respecting cajun serves mashed taters with fried turkey! OH MY GOD…. hell i do not know any cajuns who eat mash taters at thanksgiving. Potato Salad covers that little tuber. Then it is dirty rice, shrimp and rice, broccoli rice, rice and gravy, rice dressing, RICE RICE RICE dammit!
I love fried turkey, when done right not over cooked and not left over. It is good right out of the pan and we never have left overs. I am not a roasted turkey fan or any other way. Though I do use ground turkey quite a bit.
;)
October 22nd, 2008
4:00 pm
No mashed potatoes?! Heck, they’re Irish soul food! I love my potatoes. Baked, mashed, au gratin, pancakes, fried, salad.
I do like rice. My mom makes a dish with ground turkey, peas, rice, fennel seed, and hot pepper flakes. Now that seals the deal!
October 22nd, 2008
4:10 pm
you had me until you said fennel seed. I admit a personal aversion to all things that remind me of licorice. But that is a matter of taste. I also hate nutmeg and cloves and basil is not a favorite either.
October 22nd, 2008
8:30 pm
Yeah, there’s that darn “matter of taste”! I must admit I don’t have an adventurous palate, which means I don’t try too many new foods.
October 22nd, 2008
8:44 pm
How old are you, mark? I didn’t get totally adventurous with food until my late twenties. Well more adventurous than the way i was raised. Cajuns and mexicans eat some crazy shit but it tastes so good. Mmmmm tripas and menudo are a big favorite of mine too :) I eat menudo when I can but haven’t had tripas in years.
October 22nd, 2008
9:24 pm
50-something. My late brother and I took after our mom, who had a habit of turning up her nose at most foodstuffs. My father, on the other hand, ate stuff that would have gagged a maggot. Needless to say, this created alot of turbulence.
We have mostly generic Mexican food up here(CT). The only time I had homemade Mexican food was at a party for my cousin’s daughter. I was expecting Taco Bell, but it wasn’t anywhere near that. But that’s like saying you know Italian because you eat at the Olive Garden…NOT!
October 22nd, 2008
11:16 pm
Mark, Mark, Mark – Shreveport is not REALLY Louisiana. It’s certainly not Cajun. It’s country. No wonder the gumbo sucked.
Jen, you forgot the cornbread stuffing to go along with the 20 rice dishes. (I make a combo rice/bread stuffing with almonds, raisins, sage sausage, rosemary and lots of butter – to die!) I like cornbread stuffing/dressing when my sister makes it – if my dad makes it he uses too many giblets or livers or whatever poultry offal old folks like to eat. Nasty! We always have mashed potatoes, but only because one of my nieces insists on garlic mashed potatoes and sweet peas (the Cajun genes skipped her) – she’s the one married to a guy from SHREVEPORT! The only other tuber served is the yams which may as well be dessert they are so good!
Mmm! Fried turkey…the only way to eat turkey unless ground or deli sliced.
October 23rd, 2008
7:48 am
I know this guy from church who is from Maine and he’s a Cajun or so he says. I never asked him about gumbo but I bet his wife can whip up a meat pie.
Meanwhile, here’s a site I visit daily:
http://mostlycajun.com/wordpress/
October 23rd, 2008
8:40 am
Mel,
cornbread dressing! How could I forget. We do one with gizzards, livers, and oysters. DEAR GOD it is divine. Yours sounds good with all that stuff in it. Send me the recipe, I like to do one thing we haven’t done before every year at Thanksgiving.
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