A question for you Cajun cooks .

Kevin the grey said:
B:T:W: What would I add to that stock to make a Cajun style gravy ?
I know you guys ate had to eat what you could sometimes . You must have eaten high on the hog once in a while ?
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Cayene pepper, black pepper, garlic and salt. Never PAPRICKA, which is basically just food coloring. I tend to use more black pepper than anything else, and have been adding it to Hannas food since she was an infant. If you want it thicker make a roux. A roux is flower dissolved in oil and cooked until you get it how you like it. The darker you go the more bitter it becomes. NEVER STOP STIRRING ROUX.:eek: Once your roux is cooked you can store most of it in your fridge and use some in your stock.

By the time I came around we ate high on the hog most times.;) Thats why I've never had possum. We did keep on eating the good things we liked. Blackbird gumbo is one example. Crawfish is another. I can eat a pile of crawfish so fast it'd make your head spin.

In Louisianna we got so many blackbirds that sometimes you couldn't hear yourself think for all the noise. The trees would be covered with black leaves. You step out your back door with a shotgun and bang, bang, bang. You got yourself a pile of blackbirds. Now you just pluck the breast, stick your finger up his ass and push the breast right off from behind. The rest of the bird is trash. It takes 20 or 30 for a gumbo. Yummy, and not as much trouble as it sounds.:p
 
Sung to the tune of "Blackbird":

Blackbirds, shot 'em in the yard tonight
Pluck these feathers off, no need to fly
Up the ass
You were only poking for this breast meat to be free


Sorry, I have no idea where that even came from. Sorry, Beatles.:foot:
 
If so me pirate friend then I,ll gladly eat the little buggers . They are super agressiveup here and will protect their nests by dive bombing you . I had one smack me so hard I thought I got hit on the head by the frisbee we were playing with .
Thanks for the tips .
 
Nope. The redwings were around, and for some reason I didn't shoot them, but they didn't flock together the way the common blackbirds did. I always thought they were protected, but maybe not. Plus, I knew robbins were protected and we shot and ate those all the time. Plucked they just looked like a small dove. Big old breast on those robbins. MMMMM

Josh I didn't mean to offend. I eat lots of animals I like though. Cows, in particular, I find quite endeering on a farm. Goats are one of the most personable farm animals. They will rub on you like a dang cat will. Chew on your shoelaces, and cute as hell as babies. Ymmmmm. I've eaten lots of Chinese food too, so come to think of it, probably had cat too. We ate horse once in the boy scouts. I love raising chickens. Something about their clucking noises calms me. Ymmm. Plus you get eggs from the ones you want to keep around. We raised a pig or two too, but I didn't get too attached. I called one of em Bacon, in fact.
 
Good. Just making sure. Sometimes I'm offensife by default, or so my wife says.
 
Nah, don't worry about it. I've killed my share of creatures over the years. I'm just particularly fond of blackbirds. Crows and ravens too for some reason. I guess black goes with everything.
 
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