Hurricane Advice

[Ursuline Chick]

Is NOLA New Orleans or something else? I got sent a cookbook of all recipes from New Orleans. I haven't made anything yet.

Yes, NOLA is short for New Orleans, Louisiana. Sorry about that, we all used it here, as well as locals who have moved away, without thinking about it. Which cookbook do you have?

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Thanks. My book is called "The Little New Orleans Cookbook" by Gwen McKee. Do you know what recipe is on page 75? "Hurricane Punch".

Not a book I am familiar with, but a "hurricane" is a punch like drink from Pat O'Brian's (local bar, been around at least 100 years) It contains Rum and will knock you on your a**, if you drink the real thing. We used to make fake hurricanes with hawaiian punch and rum. LOL The stuff you do when you are young.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Gumbo is to be eaten with a spoon full of potato salad on top!

Another NOLA girl, who just happens to live somewhere else.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

I haven't had it that way, usually over rice.... with cornbread. The hardest part about making gumbo in New England is finding the Andouille.

That's sad, I think the hardest part is making the roux, no problem with whatever stuff you want to put in it here, same for jambalya, just no roux to spend a bunch of time with and lots more rice.

 

[aart]

I'm not much of a cook and kind of a picky eater....
...but I can make,
and just harvested the main ingredient for,
NoodledCockerel.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

I'm not much of a cook and kind of a picky eater....
...but I can make,
and just harvested the main ingredient for,
NoodledCockerel.

Add some red wine and you have a coq au vin over noodles, just wondering if I have enough time to drive to your house for dinner tonight! LOL OOPs, Michigan, afraid I wont be able to make it. Sorry for me.

 

[Flashpoint]

@rjohns39 - Getting more rain - 3 days in a row - again.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Just went through my at least 2' of mostly NOLA cookbooks, and can't find a brown gravy. I guess, chefs here think everyones mother or grandmother taught them to make gravy. I know my daughter has complained that there is no home ec class offered at her school. It's college prep and I told her that's the stuff your mom teaches you at home. She told me she was shocked at the number of girls that she knows who are not being taught this at home, so she thought it should be taught at school. She has a hard time believing that a freshman in high school can't cook a meal! LOL We have been cooking together since she was learning what an egg and milk were.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

@rjohns39 - Getting more rain - 3 days in a row - again.

So sorry, what a frustration. Know you are in the prayers Flashpoint. Hope it ends up being okay. Please keep us posted on how you are doing with all that rain. Or was that ment for rjohns 39, cause he is in the prayer list as well.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

That's sad, I think the hardest part is making the roux, no problem with whatever stuff you want to put in it here, same for jambalya, just no roux to spend a bunch of time with and lots more rice.

Thanks to learning how to make it with that Paul Prudome book and my dad, I don't find roux to be too hard... just you have to keep a close eye on it while its getting to whatever color your looking for.