/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18237418
It'll probably be better, the beer is just a deglaze, red or white wine would also work fine.

>>18237426
Thanks- I ended up getting crawfish tails to use instead. I’ll send a picture when it’s done. This is an expensive project so I’m a tad nervous of fucking it up

So far so good, I’ve followed the instructions to a T apart from adding okra. Simmering for another hour, then adding the seafood I bought. Local caught fluke (flounder), jumbo shrimp crab meat and crawfish tails. Will season with a blend I made.

>>18237988
Don't just dump the crab meat in out of the can, check for shells.

>>18237418
>>18237426
Don’t skip the amber beer it gives gumbo the taste of being simmered for a lot longer that it actually has

>>18237991
Thanks, I would’ve done exactly that if you hadn’t said anything. Will also devein/deshell the shrimp too

>>18237994
Too late now it’s already simmering- oh well we’ll see how it comes out. I could add it in I guess but I’d have to run to the store.

>>18237418
Don’t do okra and a roux, that shitll be too THICC

>>18238087
THIS, MOTHERFUCKING OP
Okra is for what you use when got no roux shit and you all like motherfucker I ain’t got no roux shit but it’s good because imma make this shit with okra you get that?
I’m not even playing if you add okra to roux I will come to your house and piss on your doorknob, and for the rest of your life, everyone else will be like “lol that’s the dude with anon’s piss all over his hand”.

>>18237988
what are all those little seeds? wtf did you do anon?!

>>18238126
>seeds
probably added jalapenos or left the okra seeds in

>>18238143
He skipped the okra

>>18238143
Okra seeds are left in— is that not supposed to be like that?
https://youtu.be/kq0CpfohTFk
I’ve been halfway walking along my recipe with this black chick, figured if I was going to trust anyone it would be someone from the Bible Belt

Seafoods added in. Smells and looks really good. I know the roux could’ve been darker but I actually prefer it a little light from what I tasted in New Orleans when I was down there.

>>18238104
Lmfao— well shit. got it. Hopefully this turns out good. Everything I read going in said that okra was integral to a gumbo because it literally means gumbo. Rice is cooking I’m letting it simmer longer with the crawfish tails.

>>18238187
There’s two basic styles of gumbo. The native style uses okra as a THICCner. The french invaders use a roux.

You can do both but it’s a dangerous game and you’re likely to make something that has the texture of a paste if not oatmeal

>>18238160
lookin good op

Finished product. Eating it outside- beautiful day. Came out great, lucked out with the okra/roux situation.

Oops did that wrong never cross threaded before, I usually only come here
>>18237418

>>18237418
This is now a /GME/ thread

Buy $GME not seafood you faggots

>>18238353
Wrong kind of stock for /ck/.

>>18238358
lmao good one

>>18238283
Damn that looks good.

>>18238283
Wtf lmao
Emerils recipe is an Italian styled restaurant dish, yet you've made Southern American sloppa
How did you fuck it up so bad, what other changes to the recipe did you make?

>>18238378
I wanted it to come out southern sloppa really. There’s no amber beer or oysters in it, and I added crawfish and okra. Lump crab meat instead of gumbo crabs. That’s basically it, everything else I did the same. I used 4 cups seafood stock and 2 cups chicken stock because I didn’t have enough of the seafood, that’s another edit I did. Other than that followed the recipe exactly. Turned out delicious which is what counts

>>18238391
>Lump crab meat instead of gumbo crabs
>2 cups chicken stock
That's where all that meat strings comes from instead of crab chunks.
Also not having the crab shells as well as less seafood stock is a double whammy in reducing the flavour profile
You could probably put some smoked sausage or ham hock to compensate if you don't care about the finished product being a specific thing

>>18238087
oo you know what ur talking about.

>>18238378
Technically it’s not South American, it’s American South

>>18238378
What the fuck are you rambling on about schizo, none of what you said is relevant to this thread at all. Since when is gumbo fucking Italian?? You know just because he has an Italian name doesn't mean he only cooks Italian food, right?

>>18237418
>How much will the changes I’m making ruin this
it'll improve it immeasurably. emeril is from massachusetts and knows very little about louisiana cuisine. the basis of his fame is excellent self-promotion while making shit for tourists who don't know any better. hence stupid northeastern ideas like putting mussels in gumbo, and even stupider ideas like not putting the signature ingredient - gumbo - in gumbo.

>>18238391
It came out great, OP. There are a couple retards in this thread who may say otherwise, but their extent of Cajun cooking is going to Popeyes.

>>18238155
>is that not supposed to be like that
yes it's supposed to be like that. it's pretty impossible to get the seeds out while keeping the slime in, and the slime is what you want for thickening.

>>18238391
No oysters in Seafood gumbo? Put shitty frozen crawfish tails in instead. Just kill yourself you yankee faggot.