Comments on: Gumbo

By: Smilyj

Smilyj — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:25:36 +0000

I’ll be there. HONGRY too.

By: Jessie Lou

Jessie Lou — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:55:03 +0000

I missed the fair and gumbo this year and was very disappointed. I think I am going to make my smotherd chicken and sausage this weekend. All this talk has made me hungry!

By: quail09

quail09 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:04:44 +0000

gumbo can also have sausage as a meat component….i mentioned my daughter’s gumbo…she is a senior at ole miss and makes an amazingly similar version of my mother’s gumbo….she spent hours with my mom this summer learning how to make the roux….my mom was born in louisiana but was raised in pascagoula…..i’ve tasted many, many samples of different gumbos over the years….besides my daughter’s, the only thing that comes close to the quality of my mom’s gumbo, in my opinion, is some i’ve eaten at the jackson county fair

By: Harmony

Harmony — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:58:21 +0000

So when and where is this "TB Food and Wine fest" going to be held? I need to book a flight.

By: Harmony

Harmony — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:56:30 +0000

The chicken gumbo without the oysters sounds like something I could handle….definitely not a seafood fan. Although I’ve had seafood chowder (that my fil ridiculed me into eating) and enjoyed it. I just didn’t eat any of the seafood. The flavor is good, it’s the texture that gets me.

By: Jessie Lou

Jessie Lou — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:56:34 +0000

Without oysters? Those are my favorite seafood next to scallops! I’ve got a really good way to cook those other than fried which I also love. YUM! YUM!

I’ve never had them in chicken gumbo.

By: Smilyj

Smilyj — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:18:03 +0000

You can also have chicken gumbo. If you are not into seafood. Both are fantastic done right. My mom’s chicken gumbo won awards and she only made it on christmas. However she did put oysters in it with the chicken but I always had mine without the oysters.

By: Jessie Lou

Jessie Lou — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:19:55 +0000

A coonass can cook anything from nutria rat to whatever else they can pull out of the ocean and make it worth eating. And serve an army of people while they are at it.

By: irvineredd

irvineredd — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:12:53 +0000

God, you guys are making me miss the lovely delicacies of my birth place and home state. Now I’m hungry. There are few places on Earth to get a better meal than what you can get on the MS gulf coast and Louisiana.

By: Jessie Lou

Jessie Lou — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:02:30 +0000

There is no fish in any of the gumbo I’ve ever had – yikes – that would put it up there with the pear salad for me.

I don’t recall if I ever had Sweet’s gumbo? Nothing compares to my Aunt Maude’s gumbo – it even got her in the paper one time.

My best cajun dish would be smothered chicken and sausage (also starting with a roux) which must be consumed with potato salad. I like the PS with chicken gumbo but not seafood gumbo. I’ve not cooked gumbo but I’ve got plenty of other tricks up my sleeve. You would not go away hungry.

SM and Harmony – you cannot beat the food on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi or Louisiana. Although I am from down here, I’ve lived in several different places and it is the best.