Creole Recipes
We live two hours north of New Orleans, so a lot of our food and traditions are creole based because of the close proximity. While our dishes were pretty fantastic, it wasn't until we laid our hands upon the big black book that our dishes went from really great and pretty authentic to out of this freaking world! The book is tall and has a black fabric cover (sometimes we're not very ingenious with names) and it is a recipe book from the Junior League of New Orleans published in 1972. Just look at that GORGEOUS okra! We were preparing... Gumbo! Gumbo. Everyone's heard of gumbo (gum-boh). Everyone generally loves gumbo. But not everyone understands what gumbo really is. Gubma (goom-bah) is the African word for okra, which is where the word Gumbo comes from. If you're gumbo doesn't have okra, then it's really only soup. Sure gumbo is soup, but that would be like making chicken and dumplins, but calling it beef stew. Just...