Visitors returned home from the city rhapsodizing about thick gumbos, butter-glistening fillets of Gulf finfish, and the cavalier deployment of smoked sausage.
Instead Moving Sidewalks was a protean pop band with a flamboyant, blues-thick gumbo sound and a template for what ZZ Top would eventually become.
Our subsequent appetizers: a cup of thick, spicy gumbo with duck and sausage ($9), and a deftly balanced, whimsical salad populated with sweet potato, sunchoke, aged goat cheese and hazelnuts($9).
The scenes set in Louisiana are short on subtlety and long on stereotypes — think Bible-beating lawyers with drawls as thick as gumbo — and the courtroom exchanges feel like something plucked from an Oscar-baiting movie; how a British lawyer is practicing in the South and arguing before the Supreme Court is never explained.
A seafood gumbo comes thick with lobster and crab, but not with roux; it's comfort food lite, and totally inoffensive unless you care about such things ($19).
Over the years -- and beyond okra's courtship with tomatoes -- it has become synonymous with gumbo, a thick stew top-loaded with smoked meat, seafood and vegetables and served over rice in New Orleans.
and can be used as a base or thickening ingredient in a variety of recipes including gumbo and other thick soups.
This is mixture of fat and flour is called a roux and can be used as a base or thickening ingredient in a variety of recipes including gumbo and other thick soups.
The mud was so thick and viscous it was nicknamed "gumbo".
Bark varies from the smooth, copper-coloured covering of the gumbo-limbo (Bursera simaruba) to the thick, soft, spongy bark of the punk, or cajeput, tree (Melaleuca leucadendron).
