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re: When people say they put potato salad in their gumbo what do they mean?
Posted on 8/19/15 at 8:43 am to Pectus
Posted on 8/19/15 at 8:43 am to Pectus
We always have a side plate of plain potato salad and french bread when we have gumbo. I take my spoon and put a little potato salad on it, then go in for the gumbo, every bite. It's a texture/temperature thing...and it plays off of the file so well.
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Posted on 8/19/15 at 9:00 am to Breesus
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I cant think of anytime southern Louisiana uses potatoes in cooking, can you?
No way they make Potato salad. No way.
Haha, I had the same response. Duh. Where would Cajun cooking be without patate etoufee (smothered potatoes), dried shrimp & potato stew, fricot, little new potatoes cooked with fresh-from-the-garden french cut green beans & sausage or ham, red potatoes in a crawfish boil, leftover boiled potatoes fried in bacon grease, and perhaps the epitome of Cajun potato-based dishes--shrimp boulettes (main ingredient other than ground shrimp is grated potato).
Ask any Cajun kid who ever bent his back to stoop over a freshly turned potato row how "few" potatoes are eaten in south LA. Close to the farm Cajuns can school you in fresh vs storage potatoes, the texture differences between the two, & which are best used in particular dishes.
I think too many folks' impressions of Cajun food is derived from restaurant cliches, a handful of TV cooks, and a few cookbooks. Beaucoup dishes & foods commonly eaten throughout Acadiana continue to fly below the radar of the wider food community.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 9:10 am to hungryone
Lots of Baton Rouge peeps commenting where you don't even know how to make a proper gumbo. 
Posted on 8/19/15 at 9:15 am to Pectus
Never heard of this until I started reading this board. Interested in trying it but I've never been to a place where it's been offered. I have a hard time believing I'd like it but I'd try it.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 9:24 am to Winkface
I first learned of it from some coonasses I hunted with back in the day. I don't see the big deal, but it taste ok. I wouldn't want it all the time with gumbo. Surprised so many do.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 9:33 am to hungryone
Was curious about some of the dishes you mentioned. The internet is still amazing.
Patates Etouffees
113 Dried Shrimp Stew
Shrimp Boulettes
Patates Etouffees
113 Dried Shrimp Stew
Shrimp Boulettes
Posted on 8/19/15 at 9:36 am to Winkface
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I've never been to a place where it's been offered.
family gathering on a sunday?
Posted on 8/19/15 at 9:45 am to Jerry Curl
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Right. Cause nothing says Louisiana like potato salad. Idaho on the Bye-yo
Worst post ever on this board..
Potato salad is served with everything from barbeque or roasted meats and rice and gravy to crawfish etouffee, fried fish and gumbo.. It's served in the summer, through the winter.. It's one of the most prevalent side dishes in Louisiana cooking.
This post was edited on 8/19/15 at 2:27 pm
Posted on 8/19/15 at 9:47 am to Breesus
Only rice. There's always potato salad at bbqs and Easter. No gumbo though. Maybe I'll bring some gumbo next Easter.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 10:00 am to Breesus
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Spicy creole mustard potato salad with whole stone ground mustard is amazing.
This brings up a good point though. Potato salad at my house has always been eggs, mayo, potato, and salt and pepper.
That's what we put stuff over. I can't imagine putting stew or gumbo over some wet potato salad with mustard and relish.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 10:21 am to mouton
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Lots of Baton Rouge peeps commenting where you don't even know how to make a proper gumbo.
So no one in Baton Rouge has ever lived in Acadiana or the River Parishes and have Cajun roots?
This is an asinine statement. I've made gumbo's my whole life and I can guarantee if I made one and parked it in the middle of pots of Link's, Leah Chase, yours and your grandmothers you couldn't tell much of a difference between them. You may like one better than the other but that's simply subjective.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 10:40 am to Artie Rome
My mom makes some awesome potato salad that goes great with gumbo.
It doesn't have any mayo in it, lots of butter though. No crunchy stuff. Serves it warm similar to a german style.
No idea the recipe.
It doesn't have any mayo in it, lots of butter though. No crunchy stuff. Serves it warm similar to a german style.
No idea the recipe.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 10:41 am to Martini
quote:When they let you back in the fold?
Martini
Posted on 8/19/15 at 10:52 am to BoogaBear
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Serves it warm similar to a german style.
That's yet another reason I don't care for the potato salad to be IN the gumbo. It's usually cold and cools the gumbo down in addition to affecting the flavor unlike rice. A few dips on a spoon is good, but I'm really more of a rice gal.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:05 am to jmh5724
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I put it on the side but dip every bite of potato salad in my gumbo. It's delicious
I keep it on the side until I am halfway finished, then I'll combine them.
For a little extra pop, I like to mix a bit of prepared horseradish into my personal serving of potato salad.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:10 am to hungryone
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I've cooked/served seafood gumbo at a large festival in rural south LA every year for the past 40 years
Now there's a survey group i would absolutely trust. seriously.
I've always seen it plopped in the middle of the bowl w gumbo poured around it.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:24 am to Mung
Growing up, my mawmaw from Lake Charles would dip a spoon of potato salad into her gumbo. I thought she was a weird old lady.....now I do the same.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:33 am to Count Chocula
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When they let you back in the fold?
When Chicken realized this board was going over like a turd in a punch-bowl without me.
Actually no clue. Been a monk for a month and turned on the other day and well...here I am.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:43 am to Pectus
I eat my gumbo with potato salad in it. Never eat rice. I will also eat my gumbo over sweet potato. A little sweet and salty.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:45 am to pabgolf
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I will also eat my gumbo over sweet potato. A little sweet and salty.
Love a baked sweet potato in the bowl in place of rice with an extra-dark duck and sausage gumbo.
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