I like to incorporate as many different kinds of meats into a meal. More protein, happier Juli.
I had gumbo a little while back while I was at one of my favorite in town restaurants, Finley’s Pub. I haven’t really had a ton of gumbo in my life. Not sure why. Other than I was deprived as a child. Obviously. But the gumbo at Finley’s Pub rocked my world and inspired me to create my own. It could have been the multiple glasses of wine I had or the company, but mostly it was just the scent of gumbo in the air. Thank you Finley’s, for your inspiration, and effing good food. If you’re in Denver, you should go there.
OMG. I have to get something off my chest. There’s something that really bugs me. Now don’t think I’m lame, but I dislike it when people spell my name wrong when they are writing on my Facebook page. My personal Facebook page, not my paleomg one. But my personal one, that says JULI at the top. It does not say Julie. No, there is no e present within that name. I know it’s a bit weird, but that’s what my mother decided so I would be different. She had no idea at the time that I would be such a mess that I didn’t actually need a different spelled name. But I just don’t get it. How can you be looking at my page, where it says Juli in bold letters, and still spell it wrong? That’s just straight up lazy sh*t right there. I’m not one to correct people, but if they know me enough to be Facebook friends with me, then they better spell my damn name correctly. Ok, I got that off my chest. I feel better now.
Googling your name is so much fun. And creepy.
Can you believe Kim Kardashian is pregnant? Yeah, I can too.
So I think that I want to bring in the new year having more house parties. Or get togethers. Whatever you like to call them. We had people over on New Year’s Eve and it forced Laura and I to actually deep clean our house. I mean, we scrubbed the toilet, the tub, the kitchen cabinets, the stove. Really anything and everything. The two of us ladies even upped our decorating. Big things. But the best part of it all is that the party was super fun. We only had less than 10 people over and I think we went through more than 10 bottles of champagne and wine. Yeah, it was an interesting night. But we made paleo cookies, no bake chocolate balls and my friend Jeremy brought bacon wrapped dates. I.freaking.love.that.man. And bacon wrapped dates. House parties are just so much fun. I love other humans.
Pork, Shrimp, and Chicken Sausage Gumbo
- Yield: 4-5 1x
Ingredients
- 4 smoked andouille chicken sausages, sliced
- 1.5 cups raw, deveined shrimp
- 1 cup leftover easy shredded pork
- 6 cups broth (I used half vegetable, half chicken broth)
- 1 yellow onion, diced
- 1 cup celery, diced
- 1 red bell pepper, diced
- 1 yellow bell pepper, diced
- 5 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 2 teaspoons ground paprika
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 2 bay leaves
- salt and pepper, to taste
- fresh parsley, to garnish
- 3 tablespoons bacon fat (or other kind of fat)
For the rice
- 1 head of cauliflower, stem and leaves removed, chopped in florets
- 1/2 cup vegetable broth
- 1 tablespoon bacon fat (or other kind of fat)
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Place a large saucepan over medium heat. Add your bacon fat along with your 4 garlic cloves, onion, celery, and bell peppers. Cook until onions become translucent.
- Then add all your spices and tomato paste.
- Pour in your broth and bay leaves and let simmer for 10 minutes.
- Next add your smoked sausage and shredded pork. Simmer for another 5 minutes.
- Lastly, add your shrimp and salt and pepper and cook for another 5 minutes.
- While your gumbo is cooking, make your rice.
- Add cauliflower to a food processor with the shredding attachment to “rice” the cauliflower. No food processor? Use a cheese grater instead.
- Now add a medium saucepan over medium heat and add your fat along with 1 garlic clove then the cauliflower.
- Let cook for about 5 minutes, then add the broth and salt and pepper, and stir to combine.
- The cauliflower will cook down for about 10-12 minutes while you are making your gumbo, so keep an eye on it so it does not burn. Like mine did.
- Top cauliflower rice with gumbo and garnish with a bit of chopped parsley. Enjoy!
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Juli, with auto correct on, switches to Julie, Julia, or Julio. I honestly don’t know why anyone uses it, hard enough to type on a touchscreen without your device actively sabotaging you. Still, not necessarily them screwing up your name.
Speaking of which, try having an “extra letter” in your nane, same thing happens even with people who knoe how to spell it. Heck, my phone tries to misspell it and my name is registered as the owner.
recipe.
Back on topic:
Looking forward to trying this recipe. Trying to “paleo up” one of my favorite recipes is difficult. Gumbo without roux never seems to taste good.
This was soooo good! I modified it a bit (used chicken legs, shrimp, and pork sausage) but it came out amazing! My bf and I ate for two days. Took leftovers to work and people kept giving me compliments on how good it smelled/looked. Thank you for sharing!
I made this last night and it was delicious! I added a bag of frozen cut okra with the shrimp at the end, because I can’t not have okra in my gumbo. Really really good. Makes a lot!
I so absolutely loved reading this! I wondered if you were drinking wine while writing it… but then it may be because I’m drinking wine while reading it! Can’t wait to try the recipe! Love Gumbo! BTW, feel your pain in a different way about the name… I grew up in the 70s when Amanda was unheard of… I still get asked today how to spell it… um…
ps. I brought bacon wrapped dates to the New Years party we went to.
I totally understan. My name is Victoria and people think it’s ok to call me Vicki without even asking if that’s my nickname. I hate it. My nickname is Toria. I also named one of my daughters Alysa ( Ah-lee-sa) I spelled it thag way purposely to be diffrent. People always call her Alyssa (ah-li-sa) she hates it.
I made this yesterday and I will make it again! Super good! I recommend for any gumbo lover.
so glad you liked it, john!
Loved it. I order gumbo whenever see it on a menu and go out of my way to find it. It is one of my favorite foods. I highly recommend this recipe, but I used several of the suggested mods as follows: I fried 3 strips of bacon in a heavy bottomed saucepan I browned the sausage in the bacon grease, caramelized the onions in the bacon fat, added 1/8 tspn of crushed red pepper to the onions, an extra tbspn of tpmato paste and a few dashes of gumbo file 5 minutes before serving, Total prep and cook time was 1 hour.