Cookbook talk:Chicken and Andouille Sausage Gumbo

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Why doesn't this show up if you do a search for Gumbo in the Cookbook??
 * Probably because the search indexes for wikibooks aren't updated that regularly. This is a relatively new page. Kellen T 17:22, 5 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Someone will have to choose if that's a soup or a stew, and why it's claiming to be a gumbo sans orka. Nmontague 18:49, 5 October 2005 (UT C)

Okra & Mysterious Ingredient
Not sure what you mean 'claiming to be a gumbo sans okra'? Most gumbos don't have okra but some do. My vote, and most from Lousiana would say gumbo is more soup than stew. For what its worth. How do you get that entry attribution after your comment? Is it automatic? (user Tchoup, unsigned)

I'll have to ask a co-worker from there. Currently, the recipe suggests a mysterious ingredient that I believe has been banned by the FDA as a poison. (cancer or kidney problems if I remember right) AlbertCahalan 00:48, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

You sign comments with 4 tilde ('~') characters in a row. On a qwerty keyboard, look to the left of the exclamation point. AlbertCahalan 00:48, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

I am from Lousiana. Filé, made from Sassafras root is your mysterious ingredient. The research is debatable, cancer inlarge doses in rats. In any case, the base of gumbo is the trinity and a roux (dark or light/oil or butter). Okra, or any other ingredient is just a style of gumbo. Seafood, okra, etc. File, as well, and it is only added to one's bowl. Never to the gumbo. I made the original entry for this gumbo. Pretty exciting. I no longer feel I can change it though. Who am I to make changes to something like a recipe.Tchoup 11:06, 7 October 2005 (UTC)


 * As far as I can remember, I've never heard of a gumbo without okra, because okra is gumbo. That's where the name comes from, that's how you know it's a gumbo.  Course, being Canadian, my views of food are bias towards how I've been taught foods are supposed to be and I've never been served a gumbo by an actual cajun.  Gumbos I've seen boarder between the definitions of soup and stew that I know, stews being the thicker, simpler, slow cooked, less spiced and more ingredient-flavour based meals and soups being lighter, spiced and a side dish.  The gumbo I've had was not so think but not really spiced and didn't really take any definate, "oh, that's X," kind of feel to it.  Nmontague 04:40, 17 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Originally, the name did come from it being a soup of gumbo (okra), but it obviously has taken on another meaning. Agree about file only being added to the bowl -- it's just wrong to add it to the entire soup! File is also only used in gumbo without okra (i.e. chicken and andouille); okra itself is the thickener in gumbo. Alainna 05:21, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Should I create a different page for seafood gumbo and gumbo z'herbes? Alainna 05:21, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Filé powder is made from sassafrass leaves, not the roots. The leaves do not contain significant amounts of the carcinogenic safrole. And as a long-time neighbor of Louisiana who has eaten many gallons of gumbo, I can say that okra is not a necessary or even preferred ingredient. -- 66.25.244.7 07:36, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

List of Ingredients
Am amused to see that a recipe for gumbo that duly mentions okra in the intro and has plenty discussions re here on the talk page does not have okra listed in the ingredients for the recipe! OoEtMePasty (talk) 15:16, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Same for chicken stock, which the recipe first stipulates, never to mention it again. I'm sorry, this recipe sucks, please fix ASAP! Maikel (talk) 00:37, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Rant
I've moved this unwikified edit here from the "Notes" segment of the article: ''Experiment with onion powder, garlic powder, seasoned salt, black pepper, white pepper, bay leaves, even cumin. Gumbo is NEVER about recipes. Look in your fridge, there is something thats will go bad in the next couple of days. Throw it in the gumbo, trust me. You will never learn to make "for real" gumbo from a recipe. Experiment!. Its like our music, improvisation is the ideal, not some perfect recipe. Sometimes, when you are young, your gumbo won't always be awesome, but when you get to be 30 or 40, you will be able to create a bitchin' gumbo anywhere in the world from available ingredients. Please, experiment. Down here, we argue all the time about what a proper gumbo is. Put in some potatoes or tomatoes or carrots (To represent the Irish and Spanish!). Potatoes in particular will soak up the flavor of the gumbo. By the way, the cooking time of the gumbo listed above as one hour is ridiculous. Gumbo should cook for at least 3 to 4 hours. TRUST ME!'' Maikel (talk) 00:45, 29 April 2008 (UTC)