Sentence examples for shellfish gumbo from inspiring English sources
Both have huge, celebrated carnivals, notoriously corrupt local politics and famous local cuisines based on ground-up shellfish (gumbo and crayfish in the Big Easy, vatapá and shrimp in Bahia).
Aromas of adobo floated on the balmy sea air while visitors to the event coveted recipes for commonplace dishes like surullitos (cornmeal fingers), asopao (shellfish or chicken gumbo), and lechón asado (barbequed pig).
As a seventh-generation Philadelphian, I was shocked and dismayed to note that the Philadelphia chef Fritz Blank's recipe for pepper pot with shellfish and squash ("The Gumbo Variations: To Each His Own," Nov. 29) contains not one iota of the essential ingredient for traditional Philadelphia pepper pot: tripe.
The scallops (you could use shrimp or other shellfish) add a bit of elegance, but not so much that you lose the real character of a gumbo, the aromatic vegetables as well as herbs, tomatoes and cayenne.
Main-course jambalaya isn't as wonderful as the first-course gumbo, but it's abundant and agreeable, a smoky, spicy, paella-like melange of andouille sausage, ham, shellfish (including a lobster tail) in rice studded with tomatoes and peas.
Also order the excellent gumbo, combining crab, shrimp and crawfish, and the catfish Prejean (battered and fried catfish slathered with a rich and flavorful shrimp étouffée, a thick, spicy shellfish stew).
