re: Saturday night cooking Alligator sauce piquante and drinking Jim Beam

Well at least it's a good time of year for it.

Not freezing cold or too damn hot yet.

First time making it, I used TreeDawg's recipe.
Alligator Sauce Piquante

2.5 lbs gator meat – fat trimmed off, cut to stew size – seasoned
12 oz smoked hot or andouille sausage – diced
2 yellow onions – chopped (2 cups)
1 bell pepper – chopped (1 cup)
3 stalks celery – chopped (3/4 cup)
3 cloves garlic – chopped
1/2 bunch green onions – chopped (2 cups)
1/2 box fresh mushrooms sliced
6 oz real salted butter
1 can Rotel tomatoes
2 cups seeded and chopped plum tomatoes
5 oz tomato paste
2.5 oz tomato sauce
1 cup Burgundy
2 TBS Lea & Perrins
1/3 cup oil
1/3 cup flour
3.5 cups water or chicken stock
Sugar

•Brown the gator in melted butter
•Brown sausage in another skillet at the same time
•Remove gator, and sauté onions, bell pepper, celery, garlic and 3/4 of the green onions
•Remove sausage when browned
•Add oil to pork fat from the sausage, add flower and brown to a dark roux
•Turn off the heat, add 1/2 of the Lea & Perrins, and blend
•Add tomato sauce, paste, rotel, and sugar to the sautéd vegetables. Cook until blended well, then add the roux. Cook until blended again
•Add burgundy, 1/2 of the Lea & Perrins, and 1/2 of the water, bring to a boil
•Add gator back to the pot, add water if needed (enough to cover the meat). Bring to a boil, reduce heat and start spooning off excess grease. Stir often.
•Season generously, and cook slow for 3 hours. Continue to spoon off grease and stir. Add water and seasoning as needed.
•Add mushrooms and sausage and cook 1 more hour.
•Garnish with green onions and serve over rice.

I'm jelly Bourg.

Had a chicken salad sammich. Sitting by the fire that we started Thursday night. Drinking a few. Went to a crawfish boil today then built and hung some shutters.

My ribs this evening:

Crab legs, shrimp, duck and wild rice soup. Miller lites and a few mint juleps.

Looks good,

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Look great, but they need some sauce

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They have a little saturation to them that consists of an apple juice/ sweet baby Ray's concoction. Too much sauce drowns out the intense smoke flavor of the meat, IMO.

At Josey's for his girl's dance recital. Cleaned his grill for first use this year . Filets for Mrs. Wales, sister Wales and mama Wales and week early mother's day for all and birthday celebration for mom and sister Wales . Dance recital only thing Josey didn't mind missing.

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Dance recital only thing Josey didn't mind missing.

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Fully understand that. Been there and done that to many times.