This winning World Championship Gumbo Cook-Off recipe was submitted by Team Bayou Roux & Unlimited from their 2013 championship entry. And it has TOMATOES!
Here's the gist of Sous Vide: put the item you want to cook into a plastic food bag, seal it shut, submerge it into a controlled-temperature bath, and let it cook.
The ingredients for the Amaretto are simple: seeds, grain alcohol, lemon peel, vanilla bean, and sugar/simple syrup. That's it! Oh, and time. Lots of time!
Had grits in New Orleans at a place called Dots this weekend. After having to doctor them with salt, butter and black pepper, I realized how little I knew about grits. What are grits?
Here's a quick look at what's in Butterbeer: sugar. HA! This stuff is sweet, but with butterscotch syrup and cream soda as the base, that's not surprising.
If one were to try and make fried shrimp at home that look and taste like those found in our amazing Cajun restaurants, some of us would fail miserably myself being one of those people. My favorite food on earth is large golden fried shrimp. Now just what is entailed in making perfect tasting fried shrimp? Cajun people of Acadiana, I need your help.
National Gazpacho Day is being celebrated this week, and I don't think that it's a worthy 'holiday'. If I recall correctly, they weren't' great people.