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Happy Mardi Gras
Here's a collection of rather small but holiday appropriate wank. Enjoy.

It all starts over on cooking where ronin001 has some Jambalaya RAGE over some Jambalaya made with potatoes and radishes. In itself, it is pretty lulzy, but then it gets posted on domestic_snark where tingilya shows up to tell everyone about Mardi Gras and how only New Orleans can/knows how to celebrate it.

Then we make the leap to Cake Wrecks where the traditional Mardi Gras staple, King Cake, has been targeted and rage flies faster than beer soaked bead finds its way to exposed breasts.

Fun times on Fat Tuesday. \o/

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	visp 2011-03-09 05:56 am UTC (link)
	I love how all the actual New Orleans people are pointing out that Jambalaya is basically a "Throw Everything Into The Pot" dish, so bitching about "purity" is silly. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	kosaginolegion 2011-03-09 12:52 pm UTC (link)
	My thought, too. Which inevitably led to a memory of a certain stew in "Witches Abroad". Not a bad memory at all. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2011-03-09 02:12 pm UTC (link)
	I would pay good money to eat at the table of Erzulie Gogol. I don't care who/what/when is in there. (Reply to this)(Parent)

queencallipygos
2011-03-09 06:11 pm UTC (link)

However, serving it over potatoes instead of rice is still a bit unusual. Not culinary anathema, mind you, but still enough to make some people raise an eyebrow and go, "hmmm. Interesting choice."

But some people get really militant about this stuff. A guy I know who lived in New Orleans for years told me he loves the batch I make -- except for the fact that I don't always put shrimp in mine, because Jambalaya Must Always Have Shrimp In It.

I told him to stuff it.

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	visp 2011-03-11 05:04 am UTC (link)
	Something like, say, sushi, where the whole concept is based on exacting standards, purity of ingredients, precision of technique, etc. - that I can understand getting a little militant about because the whole point is that there is the Right Way To Do It. But something that seems to be all about improv and variation? The real question should be "does it taste good?" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ninwhore 2011-03-09 08:09 pm UTC (link)
	That's good to know! One night we threw a punch of stuff in a wok with Italian sausage, rice, vegetables, and a few other things.. When I told my brother-in-law it was sorta jambalaya he started pointing out just how it WASN'T. Annoyed me all to hell but I didn't have any come backs at the time. But now I do! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

full_metal_ox
2011-03-15 11:53 pm UTC (link)

I'll have you know that I've personally ad-libbed Gumbo Fat Choy: Gumbo Z'Herbes using a medley of Asian greens. This was prompted partly by the happenstance contents of my refrigerator and partly by my fascination with the fact that at least two cultures arrived at the same New Year's tradition--making a point of eating green leafy vegetables--for the same reason, but from entirely unrelated directions. The Chinese word "choy" can mean either "wealth" or "green leafy vegetable" (cf. "bok choy"), creating an auspicious culinary pun; a number of Euro-American and African-American traditions also involve eating cabbage or collards to encourage prosperity, but the symbolism is prompted by the resemblance to green U.S. dollars. (Gumbo Z'Herbes, although more commonly associated with Lent, is sometimes eaten at New Year's.)

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