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re: Is there a more overrated meal than Gumbo?
Posted on 4/7/20 at 10:45 pm to geauxtigers87
Posted on 4/7/20 at 10:45 pm to geauxtigers87
A good seafood gumbo is in my top 3 favorite foods. A good chicken and sausage gumbo is not too far behind.
I prefer seafood gumbo to boiled crawfish.
I prefer seafood gumbo to boiled crawfish.
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Posted on 4/7/20 at 10:49 pm to CelticDog
quote:
i hate okra
Posted on 4/7/20 at 11:08 pm to geauxtigers87
Tomato’s in gumbo and soggy okra are my pet peeves. OP has a point, really good gumbo is as rare a virgin in college
Posted on 4/7/20 at 11:09 pm to geauxtigers87
Nearly 1,000 downvotes later we return to ground zero to search for bodies.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:18 am to geauxtigers87
Boiled crawfish
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:23 am to The Boat
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Nearly 1,000 downvotes later we return to ground zero to search for bodies.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:40 am to geauxtigers87
I'll bet you don't believe in the holy trinity either...
Posted on 4/8/20 at 6:43 am to geauxtigers87
DV# 875
Posted on 4/8/20 at 7:14 am to geauxtigers87
quote:
But people act like they're crafting something which will be talked about for eons after they have died.
We made a gumbo one time that folks would ask me about years and years later.
Our gumbo is a command performance at my place of work.
Don't hate the playa...
Posted on 4/8/20 at 9:49 am to Knight of Old
Bump
Posted on 4/8/20 at 9:51 am to Strannix
#902
Posted on 4/8/20 at 10:37 am to geauxtigers87
Jambalaya is shite too.
The rice and something spicy thing is played out af and the Iranians own that cuisine.
The rice and something spicy thing is played out af and the Iranians own that cuisine.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 10:57 am to geauxtigers87
There are some bad “gumbos” out there, but a bowl of the real thing is transcendent. I’ve studied my mom’s version for decades and can make a reasonable facsimile of it on my own, but a piping hot bowl of her best gumbo on Christmas Eve (with all the trimmings and 14 different pies for dessert) is something I’ll never match.
Of course, she makes her own roux, hand chops all the veggies (and grows half of them to start with), and serves it as the centerpiece to a meal that includes more homemade side dishes than Piccadilly. Prep for the meal starts about a week beforehand, and she’ll be up making her roux at 4AM for a 7PM dinner. It requires a specific brand of French bread (from some N.O. bakery), fresh shrimp straight off the boat and fully deveined by hand, and ample use of everything she grows in her gardens.
When all of that comes together and we sit down to eat with our small family, there’s not a meal anywhere that can compare. We can go to bed that night fully confident that no one else anywhere in the world is happier than we are.
So, no, gumbo is far from overrated.
Of course, she makes her own roux, hand chops all the veggies (and grows half of them to start with), and serves it as the centerpiece to a meal that includes more homemade side dishes than Piccadilly. Prep for the meal starts about a week beforehand, and she’ll be up making her roux at 4AM for a 7PM dinner. It requires a specific brand of French bread (from some N.O. bakery), fresh shrimp straight off the boat and fully deveined by hand, and ample use of everything she grows in her gardens.
When all of that comes together and we sit down to eat with our small family, there’s not a meal anywhere that can compare. We can go to bed that night fully confident that no one else anywhere in the world is happier than we are.
So, no, gumbo is far from overrated.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:13 am to FCP
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:20 am to Ace Midnight
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We made a gumbo one time that folks would ask me about years and years later.
Were they asking if you were gonna make that shitty gumbo again?
This post was edited on 4/8/20 at 11:22 am
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:21 am to geauxtigers87
Oh my frick, you broke 900.
Damn.
Damn.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:22 am to geauxtigers87
record downvotes
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:26 am to Draconian Sanctions
that could be said for a host of things, my short list.
Jambalaya
Pizza
Hamburgers
Chick-Fil-a
Jambalaya
Pizza
Hamburgers
Chick-Fil-a
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:26 am to geauxtigers87
Ban this heretic!!!!
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:26 am to FCP
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There are some bad “gumbos” out there, but a bowl of the real thing is transcendent. I’ve studied my mom’s version for decades
Everybody's had a thousand different gumbos made by a thousand different Moms, grandmothers, aunties or whatever the frick else and they all think their's is the best.
Gumbo is fine. Everyone likes it but the OP is right. At the end of the day, it's frickin' soup.
This post was edited on 4/8/20 at 11:28 am
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