looking for a potluck idea...

[squirtthecat]

Frozen boxes.  Cub/Schnucks.  No problem.

Or... just call it "Creole Soup" or something...
Or "the thing"
Or "Guess What?"

Ok, you got me there.   Frozen okra from Cub-up-the-street..  Check.


What next?  Beans to rice ratio?

I have to do the beans in a ~5 qt pressure cooker, but I can move to the big 8 qt CrockPot for the long haul..

Let's keep rolling!

[hal4uk]

About 20% rice...  Unless we have profit margins involved...

[squirtthecat]

Where is the smack-talking NOLA King when we need him...   Larry??

[KyNola]

Gumbo huh?

STC, do you know how to make a roux?  Trust me son, it's all in the roux.   There's a reason Cohen's never served gumbo.  Hal doesn't know how to make a roux.  Instead he punts it by throwing some okra in there.

You need CRG or Ronbeaux or NePas or me to walk you straight through a gumbo! ;) :D

KyNola  

[hal4uk]

You know how to tell he's lyin'?

[KyNola]

Lip's are moving.

However, Cohens NEVER served a gumbo.  No roux knowledge in that kitchen.

KyNola

[squirtthecat]

Well, so far, this is a hybrid pressure cooked 15 bean pulled pork w/ rice gumbo melange...
(for a bunch of people that aren't real high on my 'list')
Not sure I want to go 100% Gumbo prep. (i.e., chocolate roux)


Who's Your Mama, Are You Catholic, and Can You Make A Roux?

Yes to one of them.   ::)

[hal4uk]

Wrong.  They did.  I made it.  Sold the p*ss out of it. 
The gals musta scratched it off the board when they saw you comin'...

[KyNola]

STC,
I have that cookbook!

Hal,
Is that what they were calling that soup with okra in it?  My apologies to you. 

Hey STC, Hal indeed knows how to make a  PADUCAH gumbo. ;)

Just kidding you Hal.  STC, you know better than me how talented Hal is.

KyNola

[hal4uk]

Larry, I thought I had buried all my previous lives...

Next thing ya know, some old Lousiana shipyard worker will recognize me on this forum...
Or some strange character on the wrong side of Phoenix...
Or the North Dakota state Dairy Queen...
Or some horseplayers in Miami...
Or...

Hey, lemme git on outta here...

[Habanero Smoker]

You have most of the ingredients to make Black Bean & Pastrami Soup. You can use any smoked meat instead of the pastrami; such as pulled pork, or some of the Canadian bacon you just made; or no meat at all.

[seemore]

Dang guys!!!  Now I have major hankerins' for soup, gumbo, deep-fried okra, and WTS pulled pork egg rolls!
And I still have to DUST the furniture...............
Hal, what did you end up making?   I'm curious.....
Mrs S

[squirtthecat]

You have most of the ingredients to make Black Bean & Pastrami Soup. You can use any smoked meat instead of the pastrami; such as pulled pork, or some of the Canadian bacon you just made; or no meat at all.

Thanks Habs.

I'm going to do a little of everything...  15 bean soup mix w/ low sodium beef broth + rotel tomatoes in pressure cooker, blast, add chopped onions and Cajun Trinity, another quick blast, transfer to crock pot and pile on the pulled pork.   Add V8 juice to adjust consistency.      No turkey sausage this time. (will be turkey'd out by this weekend)

No rice this time around, I looked and there are already a couple rice dishes being prepared.  It will be a carb fest for sure.

Thanks for the ideas, everyone!

[ArnieM]

Please enlighten me.  I didn't think you could make beans or rice in a pressure cooker because they foam up.   ??? ???  At least that's what the book said.

[squirtthecat]

Please enlighten me.  I didn't think you could make beans or rice in a pressure cooker because they foam up.   ??? ???  At least that's what the book said.

I do it all the time in mine...  You have to use less liquid, though.  And a splash of EVOO keeps the foam in check.

Last time I did the whole bag of Hurst beans, but it made the pot dangerously full.  I might cut down a bit this time..    I did a post on it somewhere, will dig it up.