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What are the strangest meat combinations you've ever had in a gumbo?
Posted on 7/25/11 at 5:10 pm
Posted on 7/25/11 at 5:10 pm
There is a gumbo cookoff around here in a few months and there is an exotic gumbo contest where "anything goes". This got me thinking as to what might pair well together (aside from the chicken and sausage staple). I'm a personal fan of duck, sausage, and oyster. What say you?
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Posted on 7/25/11 at 5:18 pm to Mottleduk
Rabbit, duck, andouille, tasso and jalepeno smoked sausage. It was a big gumbo.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 5:31 pm to Mottleduk
Cook your chicken and sausage but do two things: 1/ Use home grown chickens. Don't ask me where, if you want to win you'll find some. This ain't Hawaii but we got plenty.
2/ Cook it the day before and stick it in the fridge and reheat it the day of OR cook it a week ahead and pour it in gallon jugs and freeze it. Smuggle frozen gallon jugs of gumbo in with beer, ice, etc.
2/ Cook it the day before and stick it in the fridge and reheat it the day of OR cook it a week ahead and pour it in gallon jugs and freeze it. Smuggle frozen gallon jugs of gumbo in with beer, ice, etc.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 5:38 pm to Mottleduk
I saw brisket and potatoes in a gumbo in DC.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 7:15 pm to Mottleduk
I don't eat rodents, but a lot of folks make squirrel gumbo. There's also the "exotic" nutria gumbo. Just don't use okra or tomatoes. 
Posted on 7/25/11 at 7:17 pm to Mottleduk
Cardinal
Raccoon
Venison
All in the same gumbo.
Raccoon
Venison
All in the same gumbo.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 7:17 pm to Mottleduk
Buffalo and Rattlesnake Gumbo
It's really popular out west.
It's really popular out west.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 7:21 pm to Mottleduk
I have personally made red bean gumbo, pulled pork gumbo, brisket gumbo and pepperoni/salami/pastrami gumbo.
They were all really good except that last one. I was going through a pepperoni phase at the time. It was
and the meats got hard like hockey pucks.
They were all really good except that last one. I was going through a pepperoni phase at the time. It was
and the meats got hard like hockey pucks.Posted on 7/25/11 at 7:59 pm to BayouBlitz
guinea hen
Posted on 7/25/11 at 8:39 pm to Geauxtiga
quote:
2/ Cook it the day before and stick it in the fridge and reheat it the day of OR cook it a week ahead and pour it in gallon jugs and freeze it. Smuggle frozen gallon jugs of gumbo in with beer, ice, etc.
in other words, cheat
Posted on 7/25/11 at 8:58 pm to Kajungee
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guinea hen
or rooster (chicken variety not guinea) that makes 2 of the BEST gumbos around!!! Squirrel gumbo ain't bad either, especially with the little heads bobbing up and down in the pot!
Posted on 7/25/11 at 9:17 pm to TIGERFANZZ
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Squirrel gumbo ain't bad either, especially with the little heads bobbing up and down in the pot!
Posted on 7/25/11 at 10:13 pm to BayouBlitz
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Squirrel gumbo ain't bad either, especially with the little heads bobbing up and down in the pot!
I never actually had this or even seen it, but my father-in-law talks about the old-timers that would cook the squirrel heads in their gumbo and when you stir the gumbo the heads would float up and you'd see their teeth sticking up at you
Where you think the expression, "a coonass will eat anything" came from
Posted on 7/25/11 at 10:54 pm to Mottleduk
Poule d'eau, Gallinule, Red winged black bird and squirrel. It ate pretty good too.
Posted on 7/26/11 at 12:23 am to jodaddy
I've thrown many poulle d'eau gizzards in a pot. They're the size of a fist. I also had a padna from Ville Platte say that his daddy used to make all the kids go out and shoot robins for a gumbo. Said it was the best pot ever. My luck would have a game warden as a judge.
Posted on 7/26/11 at 12:26 am to Mottleduk
Duck and rabbit. It was three different kinds of duck as well.
I had never had anything other than chicken and sausage.
Payed off having a Louisiana born roomate. We ate good that year
I had never had anything other than chicken and sausage.
Payed off having a Louisiana born roomate. We ate good that year
Posted on 7/26/11 at 12:49 am to Gris Gris
quote:my husband would shoot them and his mom would make the gumbo. I think he was all of 9 at the time
but a lot of folks make squirrel gumbo
eta- robins too
I had alligator in gumbo once. It was good.
This post was edited on 7/26/11 at 12:51 am
Posted on 7/26/11 at 5:43 am to TexasTiger05
We were supposed to cook dove gumbo after a big dove hunt, but, the doves didn't cooperate.. On the other hand, the pigeons that "were" living in the big barn did cooperate.. Took a lot less pigeons to feed 50 folks than it would have doves... The breastesses are much larger...
Posted on 7/26/11 at 7:30 am to Ole Geauxt
I've made a black-eyed pea, ham, & sausage gumbo
Posted on 7/26/11 at 7:54 am to Mottleduk
My Dad made "wild man" gumbo when we were kids. We would put anything we killed in the gumbo. Squirrels, duck, deer, rabbit, robins, dove, racoon, everything.
As you can imagine, it was mostly a big pile of meat, but it was awesome.
As you can imagine, it was mostly a big pile of meat, but it was awesome.
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