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gumbo or etouffee ?
Posted By: Slick Pan
gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 07:53 PM
What do you prefer?
Posted By: AntiGov
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 07:53 PM
Never had either
Posted By: warrior
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 07:53 PM
Hard call but gumbo by a very slim margin.
Posted By: la4wd54
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 07:54 PM
Gumbo in cooler weather, etouffee anytime.
Posted By: warrior
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 07:57 PM
Posted By: misterb
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 08:22 PM
Love a good gumbo, but oh ya etouffee hands down
Posted By: mike mason
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 08:41 PM
etouffee most of the time but good gumbo on cold winter day.
Posted By: Nessmuck
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 08:50 PM
Both !
Really like both, but crayfish etouffee is my favorite. Eric
Posted By: AntiGov
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 09:23 PM
IDK ...... You may be right .......but I think I seen some rice in there somewhere ...
Posted By: warrior
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 09:38 PM
Gumbo you spoon into a bowl, add a scoop of rice.
Etoufee you put a scoop of rice on a plate, spoon etoufee over the rice.
Unless you're a Louisiana native and then you might do potato salad with your gumbo. Yes, that's a thing.
But I would never put etoufee over potatoes.
Posted By: Slick Pan
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 09:47 PM
This gumbo is made w/blue crab stock and shrimp. You could make it with whatever. I prefer andouille sausage in it with a seafood. I have had it several different ways with different proteins : duck,chicken,scrimp,crawfish,sausage
This etouffee was made with crawfish which have a slightly stronger flavor that shrimp. The etouffee has a very different flavor even with the same seafood than gumbo. IMO.
Posted By: Dennis W
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 09:52 PM
Posted By: warrior
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 09:56 PM
I make a farmyard gumbo with chicken, ham or tasso and sausage since the missus doesn't care for seafood or fish based stocks. My seafood gumbo has seafood stock shrimp, crab and sausage sometimes oysters. Both usually have okra. Occasionally I get a wild hair and do up a catfish gumbo with just catfish.
I've made etoufee with both shrimp and crawfish. Much prefer crawfish. I've been tempted to give catfish a try.
Both with and without tomato on all of it. I tend to like the ones with a little tomato paste. Not so much as to taste the tomato but it gives just a touch more to it.
Posted By: ceelmo.trap
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 10:04 PM
And the difference is? they both look like stew to me.
Posted By: warrior
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 10:11 PM
Gumbo is a stew thickened with a roux base. You start your roux first, usually a dark roux taking a half hour or longer to cook, before adding the trinity.
Etoufee, literally means smothered, is more of a sauce or gravy. Usually start your trinity first, often in butter, before thickening with flour and simmered covered for a spell.
Posted By: warrior
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 10:14 PM
In both the seafood is usually added towards the end to avoid overcooking. Sturdier stuff like hamhocks go in earlier.
Posted By: Turtledale
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 10:14 PM
I love crawfish etouffee
Posted By: warrior
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 10:15 PM
Gumbo often has okra but not always, etoufee rarely if ever.
Posted By: Wolfdog91
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 10:26 PM
And the difference is? they both look like stew to me.
Thems fighting words
Posted By: warrior
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 10:30 PM
He don't know no better, wolfdog. Cut him some slack, you can't expect some poor yankee to know anything about good eating do you?
Posted By: Wolfdog91
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 10:32 PM
He don't know no better, wolfdog. Cut him some slack, you can't expect some poor yankee to know anything about good eating do you?
...yeah they do have them fish "boils" gonna go up to them nationals on day and offer some free southern cooking to all them poor yankees 🤣
Posted By: warrior
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 10:49 PM
He don't know no better, wolfdog. Cut him some slack, you can't expect some poor yankee to know anything about good eating do you?
...yeah they do have them fish "boils" gonna go up to them nationals on day and offer some free southern cooking to all them poor yankees 🤣
Please don't do that. We'll have them yanks sneaking down here begging for more.
Posted By: misterb
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 11:21 PM
And if it don't have file` it aint gumbo
Posted By: warrior
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 11:36 PM
And if it don't have file` it aint gumbo
It's on the table help yourself when I make pot.
Posted By: Wolfdog91
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 11:43 PM
And if it don't have file` it aint gumbo
Egh.... File I over rated imo
Posted By: Savell
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 11:45 PM
… gumbo is good anytime…we made a big pot with leftover smoked chicken and sausage
… roux .. trinity… then a bunch of meat lol
Posted By: SJA
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/15/23 11:58 PM
Some "Yankees" that have lived down yonder know how to make excellent Etouffee. . . I prefer a mess of these vs shrimp, but have done both ways :-)
Posted By: Slick Pan
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/16/23 12:25 AM
some nice looking crawfish:
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Posted By: Rat Masterson
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/16/23 02:09 AM
That looks like coon bait.
Posted By: Slick Pan
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/16/23 03:20 AM
That looks like coon bait.
You know there's no money in trapping coon so a guy has to eat something!
Posted By: womper
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/16/23 09:56 AM
love me some crawfish etouffee . I remember once in Biloxi , the wife wanted beignets and coffee . So we toured around and found a place known for their beignets.
I noticed crawfish etouffee on the lunch menu and asked our waitress if it was too early for etouffee. She smiled and said " oh honey , it's never too early for etoufee"
Gumbo first then etoufee. Next day reverse it!!
Posted By: jalstat
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/16/23 10:55 AM
Both equally
Posted By: 70sdiver
Re: gumbo or etouffee ? - 07/16/23 12:49 PM
crawfish etouffee over fried redfish with a bowl of gumbo! Why choose one is my question!