"TammyM" > wrote in message
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> You may all bow and kiss my .... ring :-)
>
> Despite my initial whining in chat, my gumbo is FABULOUS. Just spicy
> enough for me (my lips are still tingling) which may well mean that my
> mom won't be able to enjoy it :-( Next time, I will use a more
> restrained hand with the cayenne. I'm also very curious about
> ChrisD's microwave roux method as 40+ minutes of tending my roux gave
> me the misery in my back.
>
> I have enough gumbo to feed a small army. The neighbors will benefit.
> Roomie and I will be eating this stuff all week.
>
> To paraphrase a certain frozen Minnesotan, it's good to be Moi :-)
> And good to be Moi's Neighbors!
>
> TammyM, the newly declared Gumbo Goddess


I took my 14 year old son with me shopping today. He asked what I needed
and I told him seafood to go along with the sausage and smoked ham......he
picked up a bag and plopped it in the buggy. I looked and it said 'seafood
mixture including crab and clams'. Okay, says I, my recipe(s) I combined
called for one or both of the above so away I went. When I got home, roux
done and veggies chopped and sausage sliced and shrimp peeled, I opened said
package.....inside, along with the clams and crab meat were calamari rings
and baby octopi as well as a few other odds and ends.... So Mistress Tammy,
you may declare yourself the Gumbo Goddess, but MY gumbo could reach out and
wrap its tenticles around you and pull you in.....
-ginny