Cooking Is More Fun Without Recipes (kinda long, no pics)

So, I am in middle of a Kitchen Remodel at home, pretty much gutted it. It was one of those weekends where the weather was right just to be outside all day (and a rare home game that I was not Tailgating). I was hankering for a Gumbo, so I went old school in the yard with burners and black iron pots. Told the wife, no recipe today, I am gonna do it the old way.

Started searching my freezer, the daughters freezer and came up with two qt. bags of nice shrimp, one gallon of Snapper Ribs and two huge arse Snapper filets. A friend brought over two pints of Crab meat from his freezer and Momma sent over a gallon of crawfish tails and a bag of Snow Crab meat. I also found some good smoked Deer Sausage from Vine's. I had a pile of 5 diff kinds of Peppers, Green Onions and a bucket of fresh Okra I had grown in my garden to add as well.

The only thing I bought was 5 huge Onions, Celery, 4 bags of sun dried shrimp and some fresh made smoked sausage from the local meat market.

The Snapper Ribs made one of the finest Fish Stocks I ever made (I usually use them for fish frys). Never measured a thing while cooking and just blended all together gradually. It was an all day affair and we ate during the 3rd qtr of the LSU game. Quite possibly the best Gumbo I ever made (and I've made it 100 times at least)

Sorry about no pics, my other hand had a beer in it all day long.

I love cooking this way, use what you got and do it from memory!!!!!!!