re: What's your gumbo recipe?

Roux
1lb Lumb crap
1lb crab fingers
2 lb shrimp
vegetables- trinity
water

Combine roux and water until it has a nice consistency. Not thick. Let that simmer for few hours.
Add vegetables and let that simmer for an hour or util my onions disappear
Add seasoning- salt pepper etc
Add seafood cook for 10 minuts

Taste it to see what it needs more pepper, more salt etc.

Nothing is measured when I make a gumbo. I dont say 2 onions, 1 bell pepper, 4 fingers of garlic because that doesnt matter.

The amount of roux I use is based off the consistency I like and the flavor Im looking for. I cant tell you its 1.5 cups or a pint. I add until I have enough which is why I cook it for a few hours.

Gumbo is not complicated. In fact most cajun dishes arent. Remember these were poor people trying to stretch food out with the resources they had.

IMO the most complicated is crawfish bisque, and its really just time consuming. Its the creme de la creme

When I get home I will cook something and post the pics as I go.