How To Make a Red Okra Gumbo (Specialty Cajun Folk Food)
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– How to make a very rare specialty Cajun folk dish, Red Okra Gumbo
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Why do people imitate Gumbo recipe?
Im from New Orleans La, and every time I go out of town or in a city. I see some sort of restaurant advertising cajun creole food. Most of the time I check out the restaurant because I miss home so much I decided to try my so call home food. Needless to say it is horrendous. I been to 15 so call creole cajun food restaurants and none of them even compare to actually new orleans natives food.
First New Orleans food is not cajun but creole french cooking.
I see A lot of people ask for a gumbo recipe, and it just aggravates me, when they try to short stop our style of cooking. I feel as though if you are not going to cook the recipe from scratch, then your are not getting a new orleans taste of CUISINE, you are getting someone else cusine, I mean the whole point of cooking it is because you were craving for it right? However I just want to let these people know who loves gumbo but want the recipe to try and get it from the natives and not some online fake recipe. If you need my recipe or a native site I can give it to you. I just want people to respect our culture and food. And average gumbo take a day or a half. if you can cook gumbo in two or 6 hours it is not the real thing. Furthermore; lets not try to imitate other peoples culture. do it by the way it suppose to be done.
these are the things in a gumbo(shrimps, crabs, chicken, onions, celery, red, yellow, green peppers, okra, gizzards, oysters, tomatos and parsly. If you do not have all these things in your gumbo especially the seafood then you are not eating new orleans cusine rather than some other types of cusine but don’t put new orleans name to a cusine when it is not the orginal recipe
because they wanna make money just like everybody else in this troubled economy you gotta do what you gotta do
File` gumboUltimate Cajun Cookbook?
I have a small collection of random cajun / creole cookbooks, but I am curious if there is one that sums up the food and culture to a T. Everything from the standard fare to the most unusual….
Been cooking cajun/ creole food since I visited back in 96, but the recipes are getting old…
Thanks!
prejean’s in lafayette has a great cookbook, which includes many of the recipes served in their restaurant.
it has gumbo, crawfish dishes, and desserts. i’m a picky eater and like prejean’s versions of the usual cajun favorites.
Is this a good way to make shrimp gumbo?
ROUX—
5Tbs of butter and 5Tbs of flour. Melt butter fully and mix in flour. Stir until milk chocolate color. Mix in 2/3 cup of onion. Stir for a few minutes. Mix in 2/3 cup of celery and 1/4 cup of bell peppers. 2 cloves of chopped garlic – Or one, use to taste.
BROTH—
1.5 quarts of chicken broth — mix with roux and stir. Mix in desired ammout of Rotel Tomatos. Let cook for an hour. Add desired ammount cajun and file powder. Stir. Add in peppers and then seafood. Stir, let cook. Remove from heat. Serve.
you almost got it, the few things i would change is use vegetable oil instead of butter for the roux and you do have to constantly stir the roux or it will burn (could take about 30 minutes to get the right color)(do not use a nonstick pan) and you can add the onions, bellpepper and celery and garlic after you add the broth (i would use seasoned water or shrimp stock not chicken broth) cook this about an hour
and another thing i wouldn’t do is add tomatoes but i make a cajun gumbo and what you are doing is creole and either way is OK
also you just want to add the shrimp at the very end like 10 minutes before serving.
serve with rice in a bowl
another suggestion would be to add okra if it is availible in your area chop in small pieces and add 30 minutes before serving
Looking for a few Cajun recipes any help you can provide would be appreciated?
Ettouffee Please give me one you use yourself not one you copy off the internet I want it to be tried and true
Blackened Catfish same thing here please make it one that you use
Gumbo your own recipe
and finally
Red beans and rice
My hubby has found a place in Utah called the Skull and Bones that serves up the best Cajun food he ever tasted he said and he wants me to cook some up for him so if any of you know any of the recipes I would sure like it if you would share them with me. Thank You!
Here are a bunch of cajun recipes that are authentic and relatively easy to make – http://www.gourmet-living.com/category.html?category=cajun
2010 Downtown Proud Cajun Festival Wichita Falls.mpg
Wichita Falls, Texas Aiyeeee! Laissez les bon temps rouler yall! Are you ready for live boiled crawfish and the best Cajun food around? Come listen to live Zydeco/Cajun music along with some Texas/Oklahoma Blues, Country and Rock thrown in the mix! Downtown Wichita Falls Development and the Elks Lodge #1105 once again put a Texoma twist on The 3rd Annual Cajun Festival taking place Saturday, May 8th at the Farmers Market in historic downtown Wichita Falls; Gates will open at 12pm and the event will last until 10pm. Grab the family and your friends, find your old Mardi Gras beads, search for your craziest hats and Cajun attire and head downtown to shop, eat, play and dance!
Highlights include live music from a variety of bands including Cajun/Zydeco music; live boiled crawfish; a variety of other Cajun cuisine; Downtown Proud Gumbo Cook-off; Cajun Fest Classic Car Show; Crawfish Eating Contest; unique specialty vendors; and inflatables/games area for children of all ages! If you are a motorcycle enthusiast there is also the annual Joe Felix Memorial Motorcycle Run, benefitting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, will start in the morning and end at the Cajun Festival around 3pm.
For more Info 940-322-4525
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Gumbo Party!?
My husband and I are having some freinds over for dinner, and in traditional southern fashion, I am going to make a big pot of gumbo. I need some ideas for an appetizer to serve beforehand. I would like it to compliment the gumbo (chicken and andouille sausage), so bring on your cajun and creole recipes. I would like to avoid anything with alcohol or seafood, as I am pregnant and my buddies and my husband are not big seafood people (I know, it’s crazy…). Thanks in advance!
I’m not invited ????
Peggy’s On The Bayou Cajun Café – Orange, TX
Peggy’s On The Bayou Cajun Café 409-886-1115 http://www.yellowbook.com/profile/peggys-on-the-bayou-cajun-cafe_1844107953.html
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What kinds of food give you the worst heartburn?
For me it cajun food.
(Last time I went down to New Orleans I got it so bad it lasted for 3 days thanks to habenero pepper gumbo.
(Thermonuclear HOT!)
SO good but makes me SO mserable for such a LONG time!
Unfortunately, as we get older, we have a harder time consuming the food we once enjoyed with no side effects. Anything acidy (tomatoes, pepper, raw veggies, even dairy) can cause heartburn. I take it as a sign that I am not treating my body like I should.