Gumbo

[ExpressLane]

Does anyone else here cook Gumbo?

I like to make a big batch up . Then I freeze in in serving sized container. Then when I'm too lazy to cook I load my rice cooker up . Takes about 30 minutes for the rice cooker. Meanwhile I get the gumbo ready. I always cook mine in the micro wave and my wife's in a sauce pan. Because she likes a couple of eggs cracked into her gumbo and boiled with the gumbo. My wife is sort of a vegetarian. She will eat chicken broth but not chicken flesh. She also eats some fish. I like chicken Gumbo so I make two batches one with vege chicken and one with real chicken when I cook chicken. The hardest part is cooking a good roux. The rest is simple. Gumbo freezes great.


So anyone here cook gumbo?

 

[AProudLefty]

Does anyone else here cook Gumbo?

I like to make a big batch up . Then I freeze in in serving sized container. Then when I'm too lazy to cook I load my rice cooker up . Takes about 30 minutes for the rice cooker. Meanwhile I get the gumbo ready. I always cook mine in the micro wave and my wife's in a sauce pan. Because she likes a couple of eggs cracked into her gumbo and boiled with the gumbo. My wife is sort of a vegetarian. She will eat chicken broth but not chicken flesh. She also eats some fish. I like chicken Gumbo so I make two batches one with vege chicken and one with real chicken when I cook chicken. The hardest part is cooking a good roux. The rest is simple. Gumbo freezes great.


So anyone here cook gumbo?

I have.

A pack of Ramen noodles is the basic thing.

 

[ExpressLane]

I have.

A pack of Ramen noodles is the basic thing.

What kind of heresy is this?

 

[anonymoose]

I have.

A pack of Ramen noodles is the basic thing.

WTF?

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Does anyone else here cook Gumbo?

I like to make a big batch up . Then I freeze in in serving sized container. Then when I'm too lazy to cook I load my rice cooker up . Takes about 30 minutes for the rice cooker. Meanwhile I get the gumbo ready. I always cook mine in the micro wave and my wife's in a sauce pan. Because she likes a couple of eggs cracked into her gumbo and boiled with the gumbo. My wife is sort of a vegetarian. She will eat chicken broth but not chicken flesh. She also eats some fish. I like chicken Gumbo so I make two batches one with vege chicken and one with real chicken when I cook chicken. The hardest part is cooking a good roux. The rest is simple. Gumbo freezes great.


So anyone here cook gumbo?

I like gumbo but usually make chili. I do love chicken and shrimp gumbo. The eggs idea is interesting and I'll try it.

 

[ExpressLane]

I have.

A pack of Ramen noodles is the basic thing.

Somebody get a rope.

 

[ExpressLane]

I like gumbo but usually make chili. I do love chicken and shrimp gumbo. The eggs idea is interesting and I'll try it.

I make chili also. It also freezes well and makes a good quickie dinner.

 

[AProudLefty]

What is wrong with ramen noodles? College students eat them all the time. Cheap.

 

[Flash]

I like gumbo but usually make chili. I do love chicken and shrimp gumbo. The eggs idea is interesting and I'll try it.

I eat my gumbo with a helping of potato salad and hush puppies; sometime with an alligator taco.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

I eat my gumbo with a helping of potato salad and hush puppies; sometime with an alligator taco.

That's an odd configuration. Is that a personal choice or a reflection of upbringing?

 

[Phantasmal]

I eat my gumbo with a helping of potato salad and hush puppies; sometime with an alligator taco.

I love alligator, darn you, now I want some. A meat market in Houston makes alligator sausage. It is wonderful in gumbo! My favorite sausage for gumbo is reindeer sausage. I picked some up in AK, the regular and hot!

 

[Flash]

That's an odd configuration. Is that a personal choice or a reflection of upbringing?

The potato salad thing is just something I have learned by living very close to Louisiana around a lot of Cajuns. I just like hush puppies and tacos (seldom eat alligator).

 

[Dutch Uncle]

The potato salad thing is just something I have learned by living very close to Louisiana around a lot of Cajuns. I just like hush puppies and tacos (seldom eat alligator).

Thanks. I've been to Louisiana several times; mainly New Orleans, Lafayette, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, and Monroe but always ate in restaurants, not family gatherings.

Tastes like chicken. If it tastes like chicken but costs a lot more, why bother? I'd rather just "Eat mor' Chikin'".

 

[Flash]

Thanks. I've been to Louisiana several times; mainly New Orleans, Lafayette, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, and Monroe but always ate in restaurants, not family gatherings.

Tastes like chicken. If it tastes like chicken but costs a lot more, why bother? I'd rather just "Eat mor' Chikin'".

I am in SE Texas (25 miles from LA). Some restaurants include a side of potato salad with their gumbo.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

I am in SE Texas (25 miles from LA). Some restaurants include a side of potato salad with their gumbo.

I've been to Beaumont, TX several times too. Lots of prisons there along with the obligatory signs "don't pick up hitchhikers". LOL

 

[Dutch Uncle]

I love alligator, darn you, now I want some. A meat market in Houston makes alligator sausage. It is wonderful in gumbo! My favorite sausage for gumbo is reindeer sausage. I picked some up in AK, the regular and hot!

Does it change the flavor much or do the spices mask the differences?

 

[Phantasmal]

Does it change the flavor much or do the spices mask the differences?

I think the spices mask the differences.

 

[Flash]

I've been to Beaumont, TX several times too. Lots of prisons there along with the obligatory signs "don't pick up hitchhikers". LOL

One of those prisons apparently "allows" inmates to just walk to a nearby field where cars leave them drugs, phones, cigarettes.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

I think the spices mask the differences.

Which is why Squirrelly Rabbit Chili can be a favorite for many.

 

[NiftyNiblick]

Looozianna gumbo has some little shellfish of some kind in it, so that's a non-starter, but otherwise, it looks good.