re: Gumbo Weather

All weather is gumbo weather. I’ll make one on January 24 or July 24. If I’m in the mood, I’ll cook it.

I will eat it anytime of the year, but I’m not cooking it in the summer months.

For Jazzfest in Nola, I don’t care how hot it is, the gumbo is the first thing I get every year.

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I will eat stews, soups, chili, red beans, meatballs and spaghetti

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I’ll eat spaghetti but I’m not a fan of gumbo, soups, or chili during the summer
I also rarely eat ice cream in the winter
No one else in my family is like this, I’m the oddball

Tell them to crank their AC down.

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I cook and eat gumbo whenever I feel like it and not determined by the weather. Yes, it is a great cold weather meal but my take is this.

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Same here.

My home is the same temperature year round

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. Yeah I get half a century ago when air conditioning wasn’t as good and the house would be heated from cooking all day. But now?

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It's funny the difference between the south vs. other states. They had a massive thread on Reddit the other day about what to cook when you can't use the oven or stove (due to heat) and I internally was like ????? Oven/stove usage has never done anything significant to the temperature in my house.

They had people in there saying they put their crockpot OUTSIDE. Like the crockpot is heating the house up.

EDIT - I do agree that gumbo and chili are far more cozy in cool weather. I haven't made gumbo since winter, so I guess subconsciously I mostly do it when it is cold. But I'm not opposed to it.

I'll cook/eat it anytime, but like most soups and stews, it is extra good when it is cold outside.