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re: Potato Salad in Gumbo?
Posted on 1/30/18 at 7:27 am to TulaneFan
Posted on 1/30/18 at 7:27 am to TulaneFan
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Potato Salad in Gumbo?
I've had it as a side with gumbo, and it was delicious.
I don't know if I'd like it IN gumbo. There's so much going on with the two dishes that it just seems like an absurd combination.
It'd be like at Thanksgiving adding a scoop of sweet potato casserole on top of your dressing and eating them together. Is it good? Sure. I guess. But it's a ton of shite going on in one dish.
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Posted on 1/30/18 at 8:22 am to LSUEnvy
calm down there Dan.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 8:41 am to TulaneFan
I know it's a culture thing, but I say No. I've tried it a couple times, but if you make good gumbo, or if you make good potato salad, then you are just ruining your meal.
I spend time on my gumbo and I make the best gumbo I've ever had. It's the one thing I'm 100% confident in my cooking skills about. So when I see someone dump mustard and potatoes in the gumbo...well, what's the point? Potato salad is a side dish. It isn't a part of the dish.
Last gumbo I made was a smoked duck, quail, and oyster gumbo. It was fantastic. I didn't think while eating it, "you know what this needs? a spoon of mustard, eggs, and some potatoes." Now if the gumbo isn't good, then do what you got to do to make it taste better, but it's firm NO from me.
I spend time on my gumbo and I make the best gumbo I've ever had. It's the one thing I'm 100% confident in my cooking skills about. So when I see someone dump mustard and potatoes in the gumbo...well, what's the point? Potato salad is a side dish. It isn't a part of the dish.
Last gumbo I made was a smoked duck, quail, and oyster gumbo. It was fantastic. I didn't think while eating it, "you know what this needs? a spoon of mustard, eggs, and some potatoes." Now if the gumbo isn't good, then do what you got to do to make it taste better, but it's firm NO from me.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 8:50 am to TulaneFan
Upvoted - Definitely put potato salad in my gumbo off to the side. I don't mix it in, I just let it sit over on the side of the bowl and grab a little with some juice every so often. When I have no potato salad made i'll use a boiled egg as a substitute. Taste nearly the same as the potato salad in the gumbo. Right or wrong that's how I like it. To each their own.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 9:08 am to BugAC
quote:How are you ruining the meal if you like it? This is absurd. If you don't like the 2 together and you still do it, then that is ruining the meal. If you like it, it is enhancing the meal. Not ruining it.
then you are just ruining your meal.
And for the record. I don't add potato salad to gumbo.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 9:10 am to TigerMyth36
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How are you ruining the meal if you like it?
I don't like it. So you are ruining your meal...IN MY OPINION. This is an opinion thread. Feel free to disagree. I think adding a bunch of shite to a well made gumbo ruins the gumbo. Some people may prefer the taste of warmed up mayo, mustard, eggs, potatoes, and green onion in their gumbo. And those people are called communists.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 9:40 am to TulaneFan
I'm a fatty when it comes to gumbo
So first serving is with rice
Second serving with with potato salad instead of rice
So first serving is with rice
Second serving with with potato salad instead of rice
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:47 am to TulaneFan
I don't understand how tomatoes are such heresy, but dropping in an assortment of potato, mustard, mayo, pickles and/or any other common potato salad ingredients has become generally accepted.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 11:10 am to BadMrK
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I don't understand how tomatoes are such heresy, but dropping in an assortment of potato, mustard, mayo, pickles and/or any other common potato salad ingredients has become generally accepted.
Because potato salad isn't an ingredient. It's a pretty clear difference.
You aren't putting the potato salad in and letting it simmer and incorporate. It's just something to put in the bowl or dip in. Basically like the rice you serve it over.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 11:27 am to TH03
Though it isn't added during the cooking process, it is certainly doing something that changes the traditional gumbo flavor and the gumbo eating experience. Imagine I put a couple slices of bread in there instead...same principle as you suggest, simply adding something to the bowl. Does your argument still hold up? I'd find that just as odd.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 11:29 am to TulaneFan
Never been a fan. I dont need a bunch of mayo/mustard mucking up my gumbo.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 11:29 am to BadMrK
quote:
it is certainly doing something that changes the traditional gumbo flavor and the gumbo eating experience.
In my bowl. Feel free to not put it in your bowl.
You put tomatoes in it, the entire batch is changed, not just one bowl.
quote:
Does your argument still hold up?
Yes because one bowl =/= the entire pot.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 11:32 am to TH03
but your bowl=nontraditional gumbo
Posted on 1/30/18 at 11:34 am to BadMrK
116 yes to 35 no from a board filled with people all over Louisiana seems to think it's traditional. 
And again, the whole pot of gumbo is still gumbo. You don't have to put potato salad in it.
And again, the whole pot of gumbo is still gumbo. You don't have to put potato salad in it.
This post was edited on 1/30/18 at 11:36 am
Posted on 1/30/18 at 11:46 am to TH03
They never claimed it was traditional, they just claimed they were for it. I think most would probably claim it's not traditional. I personally don't believe its traditional. I think most would concur that rice is the tradition thing to be added to gumbo. I'm not really against tomatoes or potato salad, My point is simply I don't understand how so many people seem to be against tomatoes (the usual argument I hear being it's a nontraditional ingredient), yet so many agree with the addition of potato salad.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 11:51 am to BadMrK
PS is most definitely traditional in some parts of La. I saw an old PBS/12 show one time interviewing some cajuns (they were speaking in french) and they made huge batches of ps with their gumbo.
Just not for me, maybe a NOLA thing.
Just not for me, maybe a NOLA thing.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 11:51 am to BadMrK
quote:
They never claimed it was traditional, they just claimed they were for it.
The board who bashes everything non traditional but prefers potato salad with it doesn't think it's traditional?
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how so many people seem to be against tomatoes (the usual argument I hear being it's a nontraditional ingredient), yet so many agree with the addition of potato salad.
Probably because they think potato salad is traditional and tomatoes aren't.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 11:53 am to TH03
potato salad is german. could this be influence of german settlers (farmers) in south louisiana?
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The German Coast (French: Côte des Allemands) was a region of early Louisiana settlement located above New Orleans on the east side of the Mississippi River – specifically, from east (or south) to west (or north), in St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, and St. James parishes of present-day Acadiana.[2] The four slave holding plantations along the coast were Karlstein, Hoffen, Mariental, and Augsburg.[3]
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This post was edited on 1/30/18 at 11:56 am
Posted on 1/30/18 at 11:57 am to Winston Cup
Northern Germany does the Mayo based. Kartoffelsalat is vinegar based with bacon and is way different. I couldn't imagine the latter with gumbo
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