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Posted on 8/23/17 at 10:52 pm to TigerstuckinMS
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. Chicken and sausage gumbo is the best and is proof that the universe loves us and wants us to be happy. Seafood gumbo, which is pretty good but can't hold a candle to its yardbird cousin, is further proof that the universe loves us and wants us to enjoy the delicious bounty of the sea.
Then there's okra gumbo, which is proof that the universe is an ugly and terrible place hellbent on destroying everything good in our short pain-filled lives.
Exhibit "A" of why non-cajuns should not cook gumbo.
Posted on 8/23/17 at 11:00 pm to Count Spatula
In these parts we cook chicken Andouille gumbo with okra and tomatoes. We (and all the relatives and guests) really like it.
Posted on 8/24/17 at 12:09 am to Nawlens Gator
I like okra, so it goes in every gumbo I make. I know some who dislike it and never use it.
No one has been arrested for a gumbo crime. There is no okra rule.
No one has been arrested for a gumbo crime. There is no okra rule.
Posted on 8/24/17 at 6:54 am to Nawlens Gator
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we cook chicken Andouille gumbo with okra and tomatoes
Volumes could be written on the value of these four: chicken, Andouille or smoked pork sausage, okra and tomato. The combination of flavors feeds the soul.
Story on okra: The Historic New Orleans Collection had a New Orleans food history installation narrated by Leah Chase. She said that Africans sewed okra seeds into their clothing so that if they were captured, they would have it, wherever they were going.
Fastforward to 2005, I met an old black guy outside Rose Nicaud in the Marigny, right after Katrina..literally days after the storm. He was sitting outside with an intricately carved walking stick and looked interesting and we started talking. He told me his grandmother was a slave and she told him to always plant okra in his flower beds because it's sacred, so he always did. He then told me that when the levee broke in the 9th ward, the flood water stopped at his okra and flower beds.
Posted on 8/24/17 at 7:54 am to Powerman
Grew up in laforuche parish, we only put okra in a seafood gumbo.
Posted on 8/24/17 at 9:32 am to Boomshockalocka
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Grew up in laforuche[sic] parish, we only put okra in a seafood gumbo.
Posted on 8/24/17 at 12:18 pm to Count Spatula
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Exhibit "A" of why non-cajuns should not cook gumbo.
Posted on 8/24/17 at 1:57 pm to Count Spatula
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Exhibit "A" of why non-cajuns should not cook gumbo.
I'm as Cajun as they come, but the prairie kind, not the bayou kind. So, my feet aren't webbed and it explains why I prefer chicken and sausage gumbo to seafood. Also, I hate okra and wish to see it destroyed in all of its evil forms.
Try again.
This post was edited on 8/24/17 at 2:11 pm
Posted on 8/24/17 at 3:28 pm to SLafourche07
Lockport area no okra here.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 11:53 am to Powerman
I've never even been in LA...I put sausage, chicken, crawfish, shrimp, & okra all in the same pot.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 1:30 pm to ConfusedHawgInMO
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I put sausage, chicken, crawfish, shrimp, & okra all in the same pot.
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VeryConfusedHawg
Posted on 8/25/17 at 1:39 pm to ConfusedHawgInMO
Posted on 8/25/17 at 1:50 pm to Powerman
I've always put okra in all my gumbos. Especially chicken.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 10:38 pm to Powerman
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true cajun would put okra and chicken together and that okra is only for shrimp gumbo.
Okra is for shrimp, chicken and sausage gumbo is so good, you will ruin the flavor adding okra.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 11:04 pm to saintsfan1977
Nope
Posted on 8/26/17 at 5:18 pm to saintsfan1977
Keep the okra out of my gumbo please, but do fry it and serve it on the side. One of the best bites IMO is chicken and andouille with a piece of fried okra.
Posted on 8/26/17 at 5:39 pm to Powerman
quote:are there many true cajuns left?
no true cajun
Posted on 8/28/17 at 9:57 am to bdevill
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quote:I put sausage, chicken, crawfish, shrimp, & okra all in the same pot. quote:VeryConfusedHawg
Hey like I said, I've never even been to LA. I throw shite in there that the people (who have never been to LA either) ask for.
This post was edited on 8/28/17 at 9:59 am
Posted on 8/28/17 at 11:18 am to ConfusedHawgInMO
A friend of mine makes one like that occasionally. C/S and seafood combined. No okra or tomatoes. He calls it a "wild dog" gumbo. He's from Waggaman. It's pretty good if you don't mind not tasting the seafood very much. Lol.
Me?.....uhhh, no thanks. Keep 'em separate, no tomatoes, and okra with shrimp only. And potato salad on the side...not IN the bowl.
eta: Lafourche Parish
Me?.....uhhh, no thanks. Keep 'em separate, no tomatoes, and okra with shrimp only. And potato salad on the side...not IN the bowl.
eta: Lafourche Parish
This post was edited on 8/28/17 at 11:19 am
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