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First brown down your vienna sausage then added the veggies. Next add the shrimp and let it cook a little, but not too much. Add the water and bring to a boil. Next, put your weak hand on a cutting board. Grab the hammer with your strong hand, and beat your other hand with the hammer until your weak hand is bleeding and mangled. Use your mangled hand to stir the mix. You might think that it's not a good idea to do this, but don't worry, you've already beaten all the feeling out of your hand so you won't feel a thing! The blood from your hand should give the mix a nice red tint.

Enjoy!

Finally, someone who knows a little something about cooking a creole jambalaya

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Posted by Stadium Rat

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Posted on 5/3/11 at 3:46 pm to Count Chocula

For all that think tomatoes don't belong in jambalaya - sorry, but nobody who matters agrees with you.

List of top Louisiana cookbooks that have jambalaya recipes containing tomatoes:

The Picayune's Creole Cookbook
Who's Your Mama . . - Marcel Bienvenu
Plantation Cookbook
River Road Recipes (I)
La Bouche Creole - Leon Soniat
Louisiana Cookery - Mary Land
Gourmet's Guide to New Orleans
Cajun Cuisine: Authentic Cajun Recipes from La's Bayou Country
Creole Feast
Talk About Good!
Cajun Men Cook
Jambalaya
Louisiana Kitchen - Prudhomme
Jambalaya, Crawfish Pie, File Gumbo
Creole and Acadian - Time-Life Foods of the World
Encyclopedia of Cajun & Creole Cooking - Folse
Cajun Home Cooking - Alex Patout
Real Cajun - Donald Link

Tellingly, there was not a single cookbook that I checked that didn't have a jambalaya recipe with some form of tomatoes.

Note:
Top 10 Cajun and Creole Cookbooks

1) Plantation Cookbook
2) American Cooking: Creole & Acadian (Time-Life Food of the World Series)
3) River Road Recipes vol I
4) Creole Feast: 15 Master Chefs of N.O. Reveal Their Secrets
5) La Bouche Creole
6) Who's Your Mama, Are You Catholic and Can You make a Roux?
7) Gourmet's Guide to New Orleans
8) Cajun Cuisine:Authentic Cajun Recipes from La's Bayou Country
9) The Picayune's Creole Cookbook
10) Louisiana Cookery

From Gene Bourg, Louisiana Cookin' Magazine, July/August, 1998

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