I've started teasing my wife by calling them orientals also. She's super embarrassed now that she knows it's considered a slur. I told her I'm married to a southern woman now, I need to learn the lingo!
Are you married to an oriental? I mean there's nothing wrong with it, used to happen in the old west all the time.
Nah she's a Cajun Queen. I guess that's just what they called them in Louisiana.
Forgot to ask, does she make a good gumbo or etouffee? If not, she's been lying to you!
She makes good red beans and rice. Gumbo and etouffee takes a while. We usually just buy it from the cajun grocer or somewhere local when we visit her family in Louisiana.
I don't make gumbo very often but maybe once or twice a year, especially after Thanksgiving cuz I'll use leftover turkey, and it's typically coldish outside. Seafood gumbo is fair game year-round, especially during shrimp season. Definitely not a midweek meal but you can make quick versions. That's funny though because once you know how to do it, that's not hard whatsoever, and you can use whatever the hell you got on hand, for use up leftovers of any sort.
She has a non standard family recipe. It uses jimmy deans hot sausage. She browns it I think then adds all the stuff to cook in the pork fat.
Is it because they all look the same?Lanx
