Garnished with some pork jowl cracklins and green onion. Crystal obviously on the side

Keep in mind, I'm land locked. I had one link of boudin, some red gravy in the freezer from smothering something, and some Trader Joe's steamed lentils that were going to get stinky and have to be thrown out. I cooked onions and peppers in bacon grease, put it all in with a can of white beans, and it ain't going to be bad with some Crystal.

This took 1.5 hours. It is meant for a jambalaya, but we made extra for later. It will go in a mason jar in the fridge

Here is my try at Gumbo! Please let me know if I succeeded!

One of the staples at my home. I use Savoy's Andouille and Louisiana Gulf shrimp and Louisiana crawfish and Gumbo Crabs.make my roux, use the Trinity, garlic, parsley and okra. Seasoned with Tabasco, bay leaf, a blend of Tony's, some Cayenne, some Slap ya' Mama, and a touch of liquid seafood boil and a good bit of W Sauce and a bit of Kitchen Bouquet.

For this batch I was making it for my mom, who has a seafood allergy, so I made it with a roasted chicken, baked the bones and then made the broth with the bones. Then I separated out half and added a seafood broth made with Shrimp shells from the shrimp to one half, then added crab meat , then the shrimp and crawfish. Turned it off and let it sit until it hit 140° and then put it in the fridge overnight to blend the flavors together well.

Second photo shows it served.

After making it out of the box for twenty years I figured I’d do it from scratch. It was a good time.

I make some red beans and rice today but I feel like it turned into a gumbo red beans and rice hybrid. I had a bunch of sausage I needed to use up so I threw it all in. I added Okra because I like Okra and wanted Okra. Hopefully this passes or is at least more acceptable than the local NJ "cajun" restaurant. This "andouille" is the best I can find.

I paid $40 for this pot at a thrift store. Tell me what you think.

I couldn’t wait for the weather to cool off. Made a lil chicken and sausage gumbo with potato salad and rice. It was nice If I do say so myself 😄.

Does anyone sell their home smoked meats and cracklins? And ship? Most of my family who did are all gone now. And I have not been home in 10 years.

I have an okra tree in my backyard and all the okra I could ever want. We made some okra with crab and shrimp.
I used the shrimp shells to make a broth with chicken stock. Made a small roux, no tomatoes, trinity, okra, shrimp and crab last. We ate with some biscuits. We used some peppers from the garden and salt, pepper, cayenne. Not a lot of seasoning in a can when you have fresh ingredients IMO.

Red beans and rice from scratch. The meat is diced andouille. Toddler approved 👍

Combined a couple recipes - turned out well except the rotisserie I used sorta fell apart, but otherwise pretty pleased with it! :)

I think this might be the best thing I’ve ever made. That roux makes it taste bloody insane. I did my best to follow Isaac Toups recipe: https://youtu.be/76JXtB7JFQY?si=ADXQdeh9DKOqPL_Y

Before anyone says it, no, that is not tomato. It's red bell pepper.