Shrimp and Sausage Gumbo

[RobertN]

Forklift in Cameron Park has pork belly. Have found Bel-Air/Raley butcher counter sometimes has it, but you have to ask at the counter. Could get it at a real butcher shop too.

Found frozen crawdad tails at Corti Bros. I went there for pork belly which is also hard to find, and there it was right beside it. Never noticed before because I wasn't thinking about it.

 

[jaxs]

I love sampling creole foods like some folks like tasting wines. My favorite by far is chicken and sausage gumbo made by a gent from Houma La.
Like my wife,many people here include okra in creole dishes.

 

[jaxs]

We raise onions every year so we can have green onions; the bulk of which are Texas 1015's. Very sweet, but they don't get real big and don't keep as well as some of the others. .

Try this on a row next year Cruzer. Plant as usual on a tall bed with a generous amount of nitrogen worked in if soil isn't already high in N. When soil is disturbed by weeding and pulling green onions or rain washes soil from around plants,don't pull soil back up around plants. Maintaine N and give them water if it doesn't rain. Allow bulbs to progressivly become exposed until they don't have much below ground besides roots when tops begin falling over. Your bulbs will be larger and store a bit longer. Don't wash and preferiably tie in bunches and hang rather than boxing,bagging or iaying on floor.

 

[pmsmechanic]

Don't wash and preferiably tie in bunches and hang rather than boxing,bagging or iaying on floor.

As kids we would braid the tops and hang them up like that. Just cut an onion off the bottom when you needed one.

 

[jaxs]

As kids we would braid the tops and hang them up like that. Just cut an onion off the bottom when you needed one.

Yep,and spotting one going bad is easier than if stacked or bagged. On the subject of sweet onions,Sonic Drive In Restaurants serve a fine example.

 

[Molalla1]

I thought about catching them in the American River which is about a mile from our house. But the license costs $50, and you would need to hire a PhD biologist to interpret the 100 pages of regulations for freshwater fishing.

Go north to the Nehalem river, great crawfish!

 

[downsizingnow48]

M good to hear from you!

 

[Molalla1]

M good to hear from you!

:drink: . . . thank you Pat.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Try this on a row next year Cruzer. Plant as usual on a tall bed with a generous amount of nitrogen worked in if soil isn't already high in N. When soil is disturbed by weeding and pulling green onions or rain washes soil from around plants,don't pull soil back up around plants. Maintaine N and give them water if it doesn't rain. Allow bulbs to progressivly become exposed until they don't have much below ground besides roots when tops begin falling over. Your bulbs will be larger and store a bit longer. Don't wash and preferiably tie in bunches and hang rather than boxing,bagging or iaying on floor.

Thanks for the tip...I suspect my solution is more Nitrogen; otherwise my procedure is pretty much the same. I didn't fertilize this year; guess I thought the compost from last year would do the trick.