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I have been known to use a small bag or batch of dehydrated/dried shrimp to mine. Adds a lot of flavor and dissolves w no clue of being there.

Roger, that looks awesome and I’m ready for some milder temps to start cooking gumbo again on Saturdays.

When living in Louisiana and talking to the locals, they insisted that gumbo ingredients came from whatever was in the fridge/freezer.

I like this approach and use it to empty my freezer as hunting season approaches.

Love gumbo and made a bunch, but no seafood yet. Looks great. Scratch roux without burning it!! Hell that’s a win win.

Let the dungeness blue crab war begin... Guessing the likes kinda matter from what you grew up eating. Just a guess.

It's all good. Just not for gumbo.

Now you gone and done it…..

Twi (say “chewee” fast to pronounce “twi” correctly) is the language of Ghana’s Ashanti people. Twi one of a group of similar languages collectively referred to as “Akan”, largely mutually intelligible.

As West Africa’s preeminent slavers, the Ashanti’s exported a bunch of their Akan-speaking neighbors. So much so that Jamaican Creole sounds to the ear like an Akan language.

Anyhoo…. “Okra” in Twi is “nkrama”, sounds a lot like “okra” plus a “ma”.

I cannot speak from personal experience as 99% of the time I was hearing Twi, but I’d guess the other Akan versions are similar.

…..and in Ghana it ain’t really soup without okra.

Slimy groundnut (peanut) soup with uber-hot African little red peppers (look like chile petin, might be the same plant), okra and smoked slightly off tuna would be a great meal on any continent.

I dunno, maybe the aflatoxin on the groundnuts adds a little je ne sais quoi 🙂

Damn that looks good. Ever thought about opening a restaurant?

OTOH “voodoo” is a word that came across intact from the neighboring Ewe (pronounced “Eweh”) people, members of an entirely different language group. Can’t pin that one on the Akans, tho it coulda been Ashantis what sent them.

Did they use blue crab in their gumbo?

Only if ltppowell was the chef, my cooking pales in comparison to Pat's.

Blue crab is good, but you're right. A lotta work. Looks great!

Roger, next time try just using the claws from the crab, you still get all the flavor and less work crackin em open while eating the Gumbo. Thats how they served at a place in Douglasville, Ga when ever i go there.

Giant African land snails, ya buy ‘em dried in rows on a stick without the shells. Taking them off the stick to put in the soup has got to be way easier than threading them on fresh.

When eaten they have the texture of pencil erasers and taste like soil mixed with mucus (about how you’d expect a snail to taste). A buddy over there got the tubes and wiring of one hooked around his epiglottis and nearly choked to death.

Fortunately, they are only available during the wet season. I don’t miss them at all.

They put those in their gumbo?

Looks good.

I’m ready for cooler weather..

Gumbo, chili, chicken n dumplins weather..

There is a cooking forum on here don't ya know.

In as much as okra is nearly indispensable in Ghanaian soups, they are all by definition “gumbo”. That being so; yes, they put them in their gumbo.

Last time I did gumbo, squirrel was the protein. As a previous post said what was on hand went into the pot. So purists be gentle. Cut up the squirrels and brown in a little oil. After browning remove meat and do a rue or gravy with sifted flour. In the skillet went the meat, onion, bay leaf, garlic, and as stated about what was on hand, some corn and canned green beans, black pepper & salt. White rice as a base and that worked very well. I was squirrel hunting while my pard bow hunted deer. Just say I put more meat in the pot than he did. But after eating gumbo for about 3 days bud said he didn’t want any more for a long while. But that’s good stuff.