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Gumbo's got a lot of ingredients, but the process isn't actually difficult. The basics are:
1) The roux, which you make by pouring flour in the bottom of a frying pan, adding oil, and then continually stirring on medium heat. The flour will turn brown and become a thick paste and fill the premises with the smell of burnt flour. The saying goes, "Cook it until you think it's done, then cook it five minutes more. Then transplant it into a pot.
2) The broth, which is poured on top of the roux.
3) The dirt and the solid bits (which are preferably things like veggies, crab, shrimp, fish, or some other kind of meat, and so on). But don't forget the dirt. Many an otherwise acceptable pot of gumbo has been lesson by a poor selection and amount of seasonings (or dirt). If you're really hardcore Louisianan who has the knowin' of the Mojo Gumbo, you're able to make your own dirt out of vegetables and herbs, and thereby produce a meal that'll make people burst into tears and swear to be a better person if they could just have another helping.
But by law, the gumbo MUST include okra. If a gumbo doesn't have okra, it's just a kind seafood stew
4) The cooking. Let it heat up and cook all the way through.
5) The eating. Ideally, you will have made white rice while the gumbo was cooking, and you will fill up a bowl of gumbo and then put a serving of rice in it.
If you really want the recipe to try it yourself, I'd have to dig it up. But that just the way my family makes it. Gumbo can be made of practically anything, as long it's got a thick stew, okra, and you call it gumbo.
1) The roux, which you make by pouring flour in the bottom of a frying pan, adding oil, and then continually stirring on medium heat. The flour will turn brown and become a thick paste and fill the premises with the smell of burnt flour. The saying goes, "Cook it until you think it's done, then cook it five minutes more. Then transplant it into a pot.
2) The broth, which is poured on top of the roux.
3) The dirt and the solid bits (which are preferably things like veggies, crab, shrimp, fish, or some other kind of meat, and so on). But don't forget the dirt. Many an otherwise acceptable pot of gumbo has been lesson by a poor selection and amount of seasonings (or dirt). If you're really hardcore Louisianan who has the knowin' of the Mojo Gumbo, you're able to make your own dirt out of vegetables and herbs, and thereby produce a meal that'll make people burst into tears and swear to be a better person if they could just have another helping.
But by law, the gumbo MUST include okra. If a gumbo doesn't have okra, it's just a kind seafood stew
4) The cooking. Let it heat up and cook all the way through.
5) The eating. Ideally, you will have made white rice while the gumbo was cooking, and you will fill up a bowl of gumbo and then put a serving of rice in it.
If you really want the recipe to try it yourself, I'd have to dig it up. But that just the way my family makes it. Gumbo can be made of practically anything, as long it's got a thick stew, okra, and you call it gumbo.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
It seems there are Americans who don't even know there are cities in South America - that aside from the guys who think our capital is Buenos Aires ... then again, people get surprised when they find out Europe had lions, so ...Caliborn wrote:Wait, what? Lions? Lions aren't native to South America.
Hans Freyer, s.b.u.h. wrote:A manly, a bold tone prevails in history. He who has the grip has the booty.
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I like big-assed women.Bigode wrote:Yeah, and we Brazilians all have pet monkeys, and our carnivals full of big-assed women are always attacked by lions, that we can't kill due to animal rights law, so we end up trying to tranquilize them before they eat too many people.
(The above was said to a bunch of English-speaking M:tG players who seem to have believed it. It totally glosses over our real problems, which might be said to be worse, but at least the big-assed women are indeed present.)
EDIT: fvck. My post count ...
Well, I'm in Kentucky...too far North to be Southern, too far South to be Northern. When I get back from a hard day of coal mining, I like to watch the horse races and drink mint juleps. Afterwards, I'll spend the evening pickin' my banjo, drinking bourbon, and making rude comments about those damn Hoosiers.
And that's "sons of the soil" to you city-slickers. Dagnabbit.
And that's "sons of the soil" to you city-slickers. Dagnabbit.
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Dundalk honkies, Baltimore thugs, and of course the dreaded "Hons".Caliborn wrote:As a Marylander, I don't have any stereotypes to complain about because no one knows or cares about Maryland. Our only real distinction is our crabbing industry, and no one outside of Maryland even eats crabs.
You'll know you're sitting with a Marylander at a crab feast when they hock a loogey, chug their Rolling Rock, and then insist that boiled crab shit is 'mustard'.
The Adventurer's Almanac wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:25 pmNobody gives a flying fuck about Tordek and Regdar.
All I know about Kentucky is what my (American) doctor told me:Talisman wrote:Well, I'm in Kentucky...
There are currently more "active" prescriptions for oxy in Kentucky than there are people. So either every adult and child has a legitimate injury, along with a few pets requiring it, or there just might be a bit of an addiction problem there.
Conversely...I had a high school journalism teacher who went on a mission trip to Australia.
She loved it, and she likes Australians (who she says are some very funny, very awesome people, as a rule), but she was a bit mystified about how Australians didn't seem to understand a slight Southern accent. If she ate out, she'd have to repeat herself several times, and slowly, before she could get the point across (like burger with pickles). And even the people she stayed with still sometimes had to ask her to repeat herself...
Oh, and she said as soon as she said she was from Alabama, people started quoting Forrest Gump.
She loved it, and she likes Australians (who she says are some very funny, very awesome people, as a rule), but she was a bit mystified about how Australians didn't seem to understand a slight Southern accent. If she ate out, she'd have to repeat herself several times, and slowly, before she could get the point across (like burger with pickles). And even the people she stayed with still sometimes had to ask her to repeat herself...
Oh, and she said as soon as she said she was from Alabama, people started quoting Forrest Gump.
Those are just the stereotypes we have for each other, nobody else knows what the hell you're talking about. They're as likely to think a "Baltimore Betty" is a kind of baked good or sexual position as it is a stereotype of an energetic old woman with a blue beehive and an accent so thick you and I would probably have trouble understanding her.sigma999 wrote:Dundalk honkies, Baltimore thugs, and of course the dreaded "Hons".Caliborn wrote:As a Marylander, I don't have any stereotypes to complain about because no one knows or cares about Maryland. Our only real distinction is our crabbing industry, and no one outside of Maryland even eats crabs.
You'll know you're sitting with a Marylander at a crab feast when they hock a loogey, chug their Rolling Rock, and then insist that boiled crab shit is 'mustard'.
Yeah. It's similar to how every state of AU hates every other state, but no other country really knows the specific insults.
Usually it's "Victorians are retarded. But when Tasmania broke away from Victoria to become its own island, the few people on it repopulated with their family." or "South Australia was the incest capital of the world... until Austria!" (a more recent one).
Or "South Australia. 30 minutes and 30 years behind New South Wales and Victoria", "Northern Territory and Queensland people had their brains fried by the heat. You really can tell their state by how long it takes them to speak a simple sentence."
There are many. My dad once told me that NSW people have a name for Victorians: Mexicans (they're south of the border). I told him that Victorians have a name for the NSW people too: [EDITED]
And I am certain that vulgar word for part of the female anatomy got filtered.
Usually it's "Victorians are retarded. But when Tasmania broke away from Victoria to become its own island, the few people on it repopulated with their family." or "South Australia was the incest capital of the world... until Austria!" (a more recent one).
Or "South Australia. 30 minutes and 30 years behind New South Wales and Victoria", "Northern Territory and Queensland people had their brains fried by the heat. You really can tell their state by how long it takes them to speak a simple sentence."
There are many. My dad once told me that NSW people have a name for Victorians: Mexicans (they're south of the border). I told him that Victorians have a name for the NSW people too: [EDITED]
And I am certain that vulgar word for part of the female anatomy got filtered.
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Austria has always been high in incest. Ever heard of the Hapsburg Lip?
East Baltimore might come in second place, though.
And Calibron is right. Bias is very localized, as I wouldn't have a fucking clue what the difference is between the Australian territories, let alone subcultures.
[EDITED] was not filtered! Shittingdicknipple.
East Baltimore might come in second place, though.
And Calibron is right. Bias is very localized, as I wouldn't have a fucking clue what the difference is between the Australian territories, let alone subcultures.
[EDITED] was not filtered! Shittingdicknipple.
The Adventurer's Almanac wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:25 pmNobody gives a flying fuck about Tordek and Regdar.
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Well, truth to be told, Maryland does contain more corporations than any other state in the union, and Philadelphia has had more people killed by police in a year than any other city.
Of course, I was born in California, and if you knew where I was born you'd think 'Valley girl' but I didn't grow up there ... No, I grew up eight hundred miles away, in the next state. The one with the most statues of Paul Bunyan.
-Crissa
Of course, I was born in California, and if you knew where I was born you'd think 'Valley girl' but I didn't grow up there ... No, I grew up eight hundred miles away, in the next state. The one with the most statues of Paul Bunyan.
-Crissa