Posted: 4/12/2014 1:24:19 PM EDT
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What in your favorite deity's name does a slimy and mucilagenouse green vegetable bring to the mix that increases your enjoyment of the dish? Why not just cough up a lung cookie into the gumbo and call it good? Okra actually helps thicken it a little. You could just use corn starch if you really hate okra that much (I understand). |
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Butter? BUTTER? No SIR. 
BACON grease is the proper basis for a roux. Quoted:
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I've got file powderScared to make roux Just practice with butter and flour a few times Butter? BUTTER? No SIR.
BACON grease is the proper basis for a roux. You dont practice with bacon grease. It is going to be thrown out and its a sin to throw out bacon grease. |
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Okra actually helps thicken it a little. You could just use corn starch if you really hate okra that much (I understand). Quoted:
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What in your favorite deity's name does a slimy and mucilagenouse green vegetable bring to the mix that increases your enjoyment of the dish? Why not just cough up a lung cookie into the gumbo and call it good? Okra actually helps thicken it a little. You could just use corn starch if you really hate okra that much (I understand). I do not dispute that okra can thicken the dish. So can lung cookies, though. As can other substances. |