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Seafood Gumbo


Demetrius

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My wife and I were in Charleston, South Carolina last weekend for a cousin's wedding and had the opportunity to dine at a local bar called: Aw Shucks...

I think it was initially the name that struck us, but we decided to take a chance and go inside for a quick bite to eat and a cold beer before heading back to our hotel and get ready for the wedding. I ordered a cup of seafood gumbo and a pint of their Charleston Ale and could not have been happier with my choice.

Does anyone on the board have a great recipe for seafood gumbo that they would be willing to share?

Thank you.

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Well, this may not be much help-I've been to Charleston, eaten at Aw Shucks, but not the gumbo-there's a gumbo recipe I've wanted to try, but just haven't had the occasion, -Crab Gumbo, in the Frog Commissary Cookbook. I love seafood, in most way, shape, or form-except oysters, can't do that, yet. If you want, I'll email you the crab gumbo recipe...

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http://www.wchstv.com/gmarecipes/seafoodgumbo.shtml

This is a bit of work but the result is outstanding. There was a time when Emeril's was the best restaurant in New Orleans. This is from that time.

Beer in gumbo?

Dear God. Why? :)

(No, I don't have a recipe for gumbo. No more than I have a recipe for making love. But here is a good place to start:

http://www.gumbopages.com/

Drilling down to the actual recipes:

http://www.gumbopages.com/food/soups/index.html

Taggart is from New Orleans, not Massachusetts.)

(My grandma always made her seafood stock from frozen gumbo crabs -- little bitty suckers, broken in half -- and dried shrimp, and the liquor from drained oysters. And magic.)

Forgot to mention -- never use file powder and okra in the same gumbo. In fact, I don't actually know anybody who uses file powder at all, we all use okra. But somebody must use file, they still sell it.

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Well, this may not be much help-I've been to Charleston, eaten at Aw Shucks, but not the gumbo-there's a gumbo recipe I've wanted to try, but just haven't had the occasion, -Crab Gumbo, in the Frog Commissary Cookbook. I love seafood, in most way, shape, or form-except oysters, can't do that, yet. If you want, I'll email you the crab gumbo recipe...

I've not tried that gumbo recipe, but I've had huge success with every recipe I have made from the Frog/Commissary Cookbook. The Frog was one of my favorite restaurants in Philadelphia, long ago! I'll have to give that recipe a try.

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