Cookbook talk:Jambalaya I

Should the bay leaf really be ground up with the salt and left in the broth, or should it be boiled with the rice and later retrieved?--Polyparadigm 17:57, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Your guess was correct. Do not eat the bay leaf. AlbertCahalan 05:48, 7 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I always leave the bay leaves in. They're so common in LA cooking that most people know not to eat them. If I'm cooking for non-LA people, I remove them before serving -- no need to grind them. Alainna 05:27, 26 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Assuming people know what is safe or not in a recipe in a cookbook is not only amaturish, it's dangerous.

Cooked chicken
Shouldnt cooking the chicken be part of steps as you dont usually have cooked chicken as part of the ingredients. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.53.198.100 (talk • contribs) 2007-02-09T10:50:33.
 * Perhaps, but cooked chicken is something that may be a leftover from another meal, such as a roast chicken dinner. Cooking for two, I often have leftover cooked meat from roasts, which are great for meals like this as well as simple wrap-based foods like summer rolls. Webaware talk 12:09, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Caveat: if you seasoned said chicken the first time you cooked it, the seasoning will flavor the jambalaya. I agree with the person asking about the cooking method. While jambalaya was originally designed to be a raft of leftovers, adding lemon chicken to your jambalaya would be rather gross.

Peppers
You didn't complete the trinity in the recipe. This needs some chopped red bell peppers. Jambalaya is the hallmark when you're describing the cajun holy trinity. Not including the red bell pepper is blasphemous.