Posted on 09/24/2016 6:38:26 AM PDT by DFG
Edited on 09/24/2016 6:45:26 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Sensing an opportunity to show that they can be just as angry about their classic dishes as Italians, Louisianians experienced a collective meltdown after a recipe video for “healthy” gumbo went viral. Posted by a Disney internet account, the offending video was perhaps meant to corrupt innocent youth as it attributed the recipe to Princess Tiana of the popular New Orleans–set The Princess and the Frog — giving it a veneer of legitimacy.
However, there was nothing legit about Disney’s recipe, which not only includes s*** like kale and quinoa but also removes an essential ingredient: the roux. This is like publishing a recipe for pizza without a crust. A burger without a bun! Mac and cheese, minus the mac, and with kale added. This horrific act also suggests that there is a very good chance that no one at Disney internet had ever of gumbo before, or watched reruns of Emeril Live. The internet backlash was so severe — inspiring a flurry of local press and a Twitter hashtag, #gumbostrong — that Disney actually took the video down. The world is tough, but sometimes you win, and when you do it’s important to relish the victory.
Making Roux is not hard, it just takes time and attention.
See #41. :)
Gumbo, first Boudin..
What tribe?
It’s not often that I pity tourists, but when it comes to food they eat some serious slop passed off as ‘Creole’. I’ve seen garbage gumbo- with offal, chicken feet and other inedibles floating in okra slime. I’ve seen black, sticky goop with a single crab claw and a couple of pieces of questionable sausage and shrimp in the muck. And people pay serious $$ for the gunk. Kale isn’t as weird as it sounds- there is a gumbo z’herbs- that is all greens- and good! But quinoa and tofu and yogurt? Sick!! The crap that the health obsessed will swallow is laughable. People like that should just gnaw on sawdust and bamboo. Disney going the PC route in anything is no surprise.
Acadian ping
Justin worked with Cajuns at the Esso (now Exxon) plant in Baton Rouge, and got started imitating (and exaggerating) their accent(s) as a joke. Coon-asses, being coon-asses understood that it was a joke, and loved it (instead of bitching, and moaning and/or rioting).
He started doing folksy Cajun comedy routines as stand-up comedy and was able to quit his Esso job. I suspect those same coon-asses taught him to cook. Being from the Denham Springs area, he was certainly "culturally Cajun". But "he" was a redneck. Then he landed that TV cooking show, and "the rest is history".
Right and this stuff is perfect every time. I can’t count the number of times he burned the roux and had to start over.
Have you ever used “Slap Ya Mama” seasoning?
Being a country boy from a landlocked town, I’m more partial to the country gumbo.
The best I ever had was in a NOLA dive called Evelyn’s on Chartres St. The old guy who owned the place made it. Ooo Weee it hit all the tastebuds. I can still taste it after all these years.
Sadly he passed away and took Evelyn’s with him.
Nope, I have heard of it but never seen or tried it.
I tend to use Paul Prudhommes spices.
I have found the Louisiana/Creole style, with roux, to be plenty healthy and very tasty.
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[[However, there was nothing legit about Disney’s recipe, which not only includes s*** like kale and quinoa but also removes an essential ingredient: the roux.]]
Roux is not essential in making gumbo , the best gumbos are usually thickened will file powder (sassafras )
Seriously his first book had to be given a descent burial it was so beat up.
LOL!
My battered and broken copy of the joy of cooking is in 3 pieces.
My paw-in-law (now deceased) was from Opelousas and grew up with the Prudhomme clan. He said that Paul was the worst cook in the family. His sister was the best.
Everyting start wit a roux.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDj7VfU3368Dats raght Beoudreux!
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