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[sgt_zim]

Chicken prawn & sausage are my basic ingredients for Cajun gumbo, I don't shred the chicken, just chop it up and throw it in. I use Spanish chorizo sausage because of the stronger flavour and add a few cubes of smoked bacon to boost that up. For my version of Creole gumbo it's all seafood, no meat, as seafood is relatively cheap here in Australia, prawns, mussels, clams, scallops and a firm white fish like cod or shark. Adding a good sprinkling of red chili flakes warms it up. The one essential vegetable that is sometimes hard to get fresh in Oz is okra. When I go hunting or trout fishing during the winter I take frozen gumbo in my pack and by eats time it's thawed and ready to heat up over the fire.

The proper sausage for gumbo is Andouille. I can get it here in Houston, but the selection is usually a bit thin, so I just end up using regular Chappel Hill (local in Texas) pork or pork/venison sausage.

Some Cajuns swear that no self-respecting chef would ever use okra to thicken gumbo. Okra is so bad, they say, even hogs won't eat it. While that's true, hogs will also eat their own turds. I don't base my culinary habits off of what hogs eat. Those Cajuns say that the only proper thickener is gumbo filé powder (ground up sassafras leaves).


The chicken, I usually boil with an onion and a couple stalks of celery, plus Toney Chachere's seasoning. I reserve the broth and use it in the gumbo after the roux, onions, celery, and okra have been cooked down.

 

[BourbonTrail]

Never seen a live cicada. I guess we don't have them here? Too bad, cause I was thinking tacos?

I’ll send you some

 

[BourbonTrail]

The proper sausage for gumbo is Andouille. I can get it here in Houston, but the selection is usually a bit thin, so I just end up using regular Chappel Hill (local in Texas) pork or pork/venison sausage.

Some Cajuns swear that no self-respecting chef would ever use okra to thicken gumbo. Okra is so bad, they say, even hogs won't eat it. While that's true, hogs will also eat their own turds. I don't base my culinary habits off of what hogs eat. Those Cajuns say that the only proper thickener is gumbo filé powder (ground up sassafras leaves).


The chicken, I usually boil with an onion and a couple stalks of celery, plus Toney Chachere's seasoning. I reserve the broth and use it in the gumbo after the roux, onions, celery, and okra have been cooked down.

I prefer jambalaya to gumbo. I guess if one was desperate they could swap cicadas for mud bugs

 

[sgt_zim]

can't lie, I love me some jambalaya. but after a frosty evening hunt, nothing warms like some gumbo and Bourbon.

 

[Cervus elaphus]

The proper sausage for gumbo is Andouille. I can get it here in Houston, but the selection is usually a bit thin, so I just end up using regular Chappel Hill (local in Texas) pork or pork/venison sausage.

Some Cajuns swear that no self-respecting chef would ever use okra to thicken gumbo. Okra is so bad, they say, even hogs won't eat it. While that's true, hogs will also eat their own turds. I don't base my culinary habits off of what hogs eat. Those Cajuns say that the only proper thickener is gumbo filé powder (ground up sassafras leaves).


The chicken, I usually boil with an onion and a couple stalks of celery, plus Toney Chachere's seasoning. I reserve the broth and use it in the gumbo after the roux, onions, celery, and okra have been cooked down.

What do Cajuns know !. okra is the glue that thickens and binds gumbo. After being taught to live off the land by the local Indians, Cajuns weren't fussy about what went into the pot e.g. bits of ghar, alligator, herons, low-flying hang-glider pilots et al. Without the Indians they wouldn't have survived. I think we can be a bit liberal (if you'll excuse the term) with the ingredients. In Creole gumbo I add a half cup of cream at the last moment, how disrespectful is that !

 

[Cervus elaphus]

Not so fast.......LOL.

A study by an insect control company stated, that the average person consumes 140,000 pieces of insect every year.

In parts of Africa, locals consume 140,000 pieces of locusts per minute when they are darkening the skies. Big hoppers are a great source of protein and I wouldn't hesitate to eat them, fried crispy and had as beer-time finger food as one poster wrote.

 

[CBH Australia]

you'd have to dig any of the pre-adult stages out of the ground. adult is probably all we can really eat.

Yay, you can have my share.

 

[Cervus elaphus]

can't lie, I love me some jambalaya. but after a frosty evening hunt, nothing warms like some gumbo and Bourbon.

The proper sausage for gumbo is Andouille. I can get it here in Houston, but the selection is usually a bit thin, so I just end up using regular Chappel Hill (local in Texas) pork or pork/venison sausage.

Some Cajuns swear that no self-respecting chef would ever use okra to thicken gumbo. Okra is so bad, they say, even hogs won't eat it. While that's true, hogs will also eat their own turds. I don't base my culinary habits off of what hogs eat. Those Cajuns say that the only proper thickener is gumbo filé powder (ground up sassafras leaves).


The chicken, I usually boil with an onion and a couple stalks of celery, plus Toney Chachere's seasoning. I reserve the broth and use it in the gumbo after the roux, onions, celery, and okra have been cooked down.

I make my own seafood stock from simmering fish heads and prawn bodies. Will keep in the fridge for a few days. Lot of folk still don't know how to make a proper dark Cajun roux, no patience I think.

 

[Cervus elaphus]

I hope someone here finds this useful. You're welcome.View attachment 405290

AH admin, can we have a hunting/fishing cooking forum please?

 

[Cervus elaphus]

Typical liberal bugs.

Inedible as well

 

[Cervus elaphus]

I've heard of starvation in America, of course, but I didn't think it is that bad.

If the current administration has their way you'll either be on an insect diet or soylent green hamburgers (no wait, hamburgers are going to be banned as contributing to climate change).

 

[PerH]

If the current administration has their way you'll either be on an insect diet or soylent green hamburgers (no wait, hamburgers are going to be banned as contributing to climate change).

Until some " indian hindu fascinated radical vegan ara" scream bloody murder of that its unlikely if even grass will be a viable option.

 

[Vashper]

If the current administration has their way you'll either be on an insect diet or soylent green hamburgers (no wait, hamburgers are going to be banned as contributing to climate change).

well, since green soylent is "green", there shouldn't be any problems

 

[Vashper]

Eat any meat sold in the meat market, without asking questions caused by reproaches of conscience, for "the land and everything in it belongs to the Lord." If an unbeliever invites you and you decide to go, eat whatever is put in front of you, without asking questions out of remorse. (1 Corinthians 10: 25-27)

 

[Rubberhead]

I'm not allergic to shrimp and don't intend to eat a cicada but I am planning to road bike 5 miles this weekend. I'm still a little out of shape from the winter layup so I might accidentally eat one while biking, out of breath with my mouth draped open...

 

[Vashper]

How to distinguish a happy biker from a sad biker? The jolly biker has gnats in his teeth.

 

[Cervus elaphus]

well, since green soylent is "green", there shouldn't be any problems

It 'aint the colour Vashper, it's the source material. Which reminds me of the movie Snowpiercer when the cattle class passengers found out the blocks of food they were issued with every day were made from bred insects like grasshoppers.

 

[Cervus elaphus]

I'm not allergic to shrimp and don't intend to eat a cicada but I am planning to road bike 5 miles this weekend. I'm still a little out of shape from the winter layup so I might accidentally eat one while biking, out of breath with my mouth draped open...

Shades of a me myself and Irene motorcycle trip

 

[Cervus elaphus]

well, since green soylent is "green", there shouldn't be any problems

I like that scene in "Demolition Man" when Sly has a ratburger down in the sewers where the unwashed fight back with corpse food.

 

[Cervus elaphus]

In Northern Virginia , they vote blue and eat green.

Better in West VA, they vote red and eat whatever the hell they like. Good mountain folk.