, and set aside on a plate. Add the rest of the grease and all of the flour, and make a nice dark roux. Add the onions, green onions, celery, peppers, and garlic and saute till limp. Add the tomatoes and spices and cook for a...

Wow. dcandohio and I are kindred spirits. I grew up in Ohio, and live near DC. After my parent’s divorce, my Dad married a New Orleans native who taught me how to make a proper roux among other things! My love of food...

I do. I collect: cutting/bread boards/chopping blocks rolling pins pepper mills heavy pots and pans butter dishes old kitchen gadgets such as egg beaters/flour sifters/dough cutters, etc. I was wondering if anyone collects things for...

Today’s visit to Hoover’s revealed a very mediocre chicken-sausage gumbo special (with a fairly jacked roux), some boring red beans and rice, some extremely capable takes on catfish (both fried and broiled), and a...

appreciate value, and as a Southern girl, I appreciate comfort food, which is often what I don’t have time to cook. Have you ever made pot pie from scratch making the pie crusts and all, I have, it takes a long time to roll...

of origin. Too many people who don’t care about authenticity is the reason why here in LA, clam chowder means thick roux-based and goopey and chili means tomatoes and beans. And what a lot of restaurants pass off as Philly...

and boullion cubes are as good as the concentrated pastes. But mix up a quart of beef stock, and make a basic gravy from roux (flour fried well in butter/oo), add the stock (room temp or cold, not hot), stir in the drippings from...

" for people like Albert Roux, and Raymond Blanc at Harvey’s when that book came out. I understand what being a “chef” means.

Well, we’ll eat just about anything but my preference will go to chicken and sausage gumbo. The smoked sausage would be a mix of pork and deer (yes, white-tailed deer). Believe me, it’s not a gamey taste at all. A...

another tomato gravy fan here, terkalin! that reminds me, i’ve got some tomato puree in the fridge that was going to become pizza sauce. now i’m going to re-purpose that, make a roux with some bacon grease, and voilá...

Revisits: nothing has measured up to the etouffee. Shrimp gumbo had very good roux but frozen tail shrimp and almost nothing else in it. I tried the meatloaf, offered every Tuesday, thinking 'Cajun meatloaf – wow!...

frying, boiling the holy trinity(bell pepper, celery, and onion) lots of rice, fish, pork, chicken, crawfish, shrimp, alligator, sausage, dark roux and dont forget about the heat of the cayenne pepper & hot sauces. I could live on...

have a serious head start on the gravy. Defat that stock, save the fat, use that to build the roux for the gravy. Pecan, Apple and Pumpkin pies with whipped cream and vanilla ice cream available Canned cranberry sauce, sliced...

, The Babbo Cookbook. Julia is OK, as long as it’s one of her own, earlier books. I also wouldn’t mind doing a pastry book, like Lenotre, Payard, or Roux Brothers, but I know that many people are not as keen....

to let something reduce on it’s own. He could’ve made a roux as a shortcut, but Martha still wouldn’t haved like it. Ughh, I may be the minority, but I can’t stand that woman. She is by no means the most...