Food is Love Made Edible
What to do with all that leftover Thanksgiving turkey? Eat days and days of dry turkey you’ve heated up in the microwave? Make cold and honestly boring turkey sandwiches? To me personally those both sound like dreadful options. So what do I do? I turn it into a pot of leftover Thanksgiving turkey gumbo.
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Cooking a roux is an art. Yes, there are ingredient ratios to follow (1:2 oil/fat to flour) and a cooking method that will give you the best results; but really it’s all about paying attention to the pot and working the roux until you’ve mastered how to cook it. The fastest way to burn a roux, especially when you’re learning how to cook one, is to stop stirring it and walk away from the pot. Stirring your roux constantly is one of the easiest ways to keep it from burning.
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What would be your last meal?
It’s a question I’m sure you have been asked or heard asked many times in your life. It’s something that is often tied to prisoners on death row; i.e. The Green Mile and loaf of corn bread brought to John Coffey. So I again ask you the question. If you only had one more meal left to eat before you left this life and you could request anything you wanted what would you choose? It’s pretty simple for me; my mom’s red beans and rice.
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