Happy Roux Year!
Roux - getting some color - not quite there
Roux - closer - nearly there
Yes! We're there! Dark chocolate brown, plus onions, celery and green peppers.
Scott butchers a chicken for the first time. He does the shopping. I forgot to request a cut up chicken. We consulted books. It's been a very Julia Child Yule around here.
Gumbo will simmer for 3 hours with chicken, then I will add andouille made by the rockstar butchers of Laurelhurst Market.
This gumbo recipe comes from a treasured cookbook called Cooking Up A Storm, Recipes Lost and Found from The Times Picayune of New Orleans, which you can read more about in my blog post from last year. Can’t show you the finished product, ladled over white rice, because I haven’t served it. We’ll eat this tonight, after some tasty appe-teasers. I’m sautéeing mushrooms and adding some herbs and breadcrumbs and spooning into little puff pastry cups (earlier in the week, I didn’t need a full sheet of puff pastry, so I cut up the remaining portion into little squares and patted them into a mini-muffin pan.
I was winging it here without a recipe, but these mushroom mini-tarts turned out pretty yummy.
Our friend Meri Kemp, a chef, is coming over with something surely delicious and clever.
An photo addition after the fact. I was right. She did bring something yummy and clever - a shrimp boil with a wonderful rémoulade sauce!
There will be small-grower Champagne, and some fine Burgundy. And gumbo.
Happy Roux Year. May it be filled with food and wine adventures with good friends. Now, go soak those black-eyed peas!
