Waiting on BamaLuver's Gumbo recipe

[bayoutider]

i too have always been taught that it goes in the bowl upon serving, though i've never heard on the rice specifically. bayou, do you like file on your gumbo?? it was always in my family's kitchen, but it never got used. by the time i was old enough to care i was too set in my ways and didn't care for it.

I can take it or leave it in other words if someone remembers to put it on the table I might use it.

Funny story, I went to a friend's house to eat duck gumbo. They had a shaker on the table that looked like file and I shook a good portion onto my rice (read the label stupid). I noticed my hosts looking strangely at each other but they said nothing. I ladled some duck gumbo into my bowl and took a bite. The powder was powdered jalapeno and it lit me up. Not wanting to look too foolish I ate most of my bowl and got another which I omitted the powder. We had a good laugh later.

 

[TideRollsInVa]

TideBeliver

I cooked your Gumbo Friday for friends, It was Mrs TRIV's B'day. I tweaked it a bit but it was basically yours. I did omit flour but did a Roux at the end and added Okra. WOW, hands down one of the most impressive meals I've cooked. Have you placed it in the new recipe forum? It deserves to be there.

 

[XXL TideFan]

I always take the carcass of my fried turkey and make a good seasoned stock for a special gumbo for after the holidays. Usually about this time of year. Guess that it is time to pull it out and make a pot. Sorry that I can't give the gumbo recipe, I have never measured the ingredients. I am one of those chefs that just cooks. When I bake bread or make cheesecake, I measure.

 

[bayoutider]

I always take the carcass of my fried turkey and make a good seasoned stock for a special gumbo for after the holidays. Usually about this time of year. Guess that it is time to pull it out and make a pot. Sorry that I can't give the gumbo recipe, I have never measured the ingredients. I am one of those chefs that just cooks. When I bake bread or make cheesecake, I measure.

I also make turkey gumbo instead of turkey sandwiches, turkey salad, turkey ala-king, turkey tetrazini, turkey surprise. One pot of gumbo and the ol' bird is done.

 

[aden]

If you don't put okra in your gumbo,it aint gumbo.Chicken stock is ok but if you take the shrimp hull and heads and boil them and strain it,it gives your gumbo amore of a seafood taste.If you put chicken or sausage in it ,it is not considered seafood gumbo,in my opinion.I will put my gumbo and my wife's crawfish etouffe' up against any out there. Come by the ghetto in the colisseum parking lot during the last home game,we have a seafood theme that weekend,and we will feed all comers.

 

[bayoutider]

If you don't put okra in your gumbo,it aint gumbo.Chicken stock is ok but if you take the shrimp hull and heads and boil them and strain it,it gives your gumbo amore of a seafood taste.If you put chicken or sausage in it ,it is not considered seafood gumbo,in my opinion.I will put my gumbo and my wife's crawfish etouffe' up against any out there. Come by the ghetto in the colisseum parking lot during the last home game,we have a seafood theme that weekend,and we will feed all comers.

Here we go again.

 

[TideBeliever]

From: "A History of Gumbo"

There is only one rule that remains constant in making gumbo: First you make a roux. The roux, a flour and oil or butter mixture, which acts as a thickening agent, is the gumbo's base. There are no other hard-and-fast rules for the ingredients used in making gumbo - anything that flies, crawls, creeps, or lies still may end up in the gumbo pot. There are as many recipes for gumbo as there are cooks in Louisiana. The making of gumbo draws out the competitive streak in most Louisianans, and most cooks closely guard their recipes.

 

[aden]

I didn't mean to imply that it wasn't gumbo without seafood,I simply meant that I have eaten gumbo several times that was called seafood gumbo that had as much chicken in it as it had anything else. My wife make the roux for my gumbo and we usually use shrimp, crab and crawfish as the meat in it.The invite stands for all Tide tailgaters to stop and visit us in the Colliseum parking lot during football season.We are parked in spots 177, 176 and 135.




Aden

 

[bayoutider]

I didn't mean to imply that it wasn't gumbo without seafood,I simply meant that I have eaten gumbo several times that was called seafood gumbo that had as much chicken in it as it had anything else. My wife make the roux for my gumbo and we usually use shrimp, crab and crawfish as the meat in it.The invite stands for all Tide tailgaters to stop and visit us in the Colliseum parking lot during football season.We are parked in spots 177, 176 and 135.

Aden

What about your other conseil culinaire? If you don't put okra in your gumbo,it aint gumbo. are you still sticking with that?

 

[aden]

If I remember my history correctly, okra and gumbo are in the same word in different languages. So, if you call it gumbo ,it has to have okra as an ingredient.

 

[bayoutider]

If I remember my history correctly, okra and gumbo are in the same word in different languages. So, if you call it gumbo ,it has to have okra as an ingredient.

If you read back through this thread you will find you are very, very mistaken.

 

[aden]

Kind of like Mardi Gras,depends on where you live and grew up as to the history and the belief.