TD F&D Board Getting Respect Out There

Found these comments from last November on a fishing site called striper.com (first I thought it was porn).

Guy was looking for a jambalaya recipe.

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Google google google. then It pops up. The LSU Tiger Fans website and chat forum, Tiger Droppings. Tailgate and food section.
Some crazy booze sodden parish y'at has miraculously completed ninth grade and is able to use Excel. With his considerable skills has created "The Jambalaya Calculator"! i pop the thing up, and its a five page spreadsheet that will give you ingredient ratios with every main ingredient as a lead cell. Even pot size and reccomended salt (another thing you can screw up easy). Directions, tips. Ive typed "LOL" a thousand times, this creation truly made me LOL! How cool. How nerd.

But it looks right. The ratios look like they work from what little research I did.
Go grab it. Its funny, and it works

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Then he notices the Recipe Book:

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OOH!
The LSU tailgaters recipe book!

(Just looked at this. MUST HAVE)

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Another guy:

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woah. Some good stuff in there. Thanks for sharing. Wish I had access to fresh crawfish at a reasonable price.

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Funky calculator and a hell of a cookbook.

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Then this guy pipes up:

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That's very cool but I'm not sure I buy it...though all the basics are there.

I cook mine in the oven, you can do some really big batches. Use parboiled rice and less liquid 1.75/1.
Brown everything in batches and saute the aromatics well seasoned.
Use whole canned tomatoes, squeeze out all the liquid and use that in the the rice.
Everything into one big pan covered for around a forty minutes...add the shrimp and diced up tomatoes near the end.

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The LSU Tailgate Jambalaya Calculator is a work of art, and it is spot on.
I typed in 22 large servings (2 cup) and 12 small. I used the amounts and ratios and got some good stuff.
I was a little chicken because it was such a big pot, I used Uncle Ben rice because it cooks up easier. Regular rice would have made it a little stickier, and it would have cooked up real nice in that big pot. Ill do that next time.

That spreadsheet is worth keeping!

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This is a gem, take a look.