Looks great!

LOL Shirley!!!

Looks yummy!

I will try it just send all of that over here lol looks awesome.

I put a huge pork shoulder roast in the oven today slow cooking with lots of onion and garlic. I cooked rice to go with the brown onion gravy. We love pork roast. They were on sale for 88c a lb. I can't pass up that kind of price.

Looks fabulous, Jasdip! The tomatoes give it a nice touch of color.

Deelicious! I think I cook my roux darker but yours looks mighty tasty! It's one of those dishes that can be modified according to whim, taste, availability of ingredients, etc.

Did you love it?

We loved it! I wasn't sure if I should make a darker roux or not, Rhizo. I'll do that next time. I'll also make sure I have green peppers on hand, for the pop of colour that it needed. The tomato helped. Very, very good, it's a keeper.

Etouffee. Mmm. One of my favorites. Especially crawfish (shrimp is good too) in New Orleans at Gumbolaya. Your picture makes me want to go get some beignet, get covered with powdered sugar, and sip some chickory cafe au lait while shooing away the pigeons.

I did not really have supper last evening, but did have an extra long cheese burger while I was out and about yesterday.

Sue

Years ago when I lived in Columbus, Ohio, I went with a work friend to lunch and got the daily special of Shrimp Etouffee. It was sublimely wonderful. Ever since when I see that listed on a menu I'm drawn to it, and every single time I'm sorely disappointed. They all followed the same simple pattern of shrimp, in a sauce, over rice, but that's where the similarity ends. One was tiny pre-cooked salad shrimp, over minute rice, with a too-salty brown gravy. Another at a World Music Festival had crayfish instead of shrimp, and wasn't so much cooked in a large pot as it was slowly incubated in a large pot. I've never found another version that was even an above average meal, and have begun to doubt whether the original dish could possibly been as good as I remember.

Last night we were in DC to take my nephew who had been visiting to the airport. We had time to see a couple museums and went to the cafeteria in the The National Museum of the American Indian for dinner. It was hard to steer our nephew away from the fried chicken fingers and french fries, but for the most part the food was pretty good. I had the "Indian Taco" meal which is Buffalo chili over a fry bread, with cheese, tomatoes, lettuce and onion.

I googled this dish and printed off a shrimp one and a chicken one and just may have to try making it. Not burning the roux might tax my cooking talents and my patience but I'll give it a go.