[Sca-cooks] Turkey day odds and ends

[Liadan]

Phlip,
According to my book, it ain't gumbo without the okra! But supposedly
file powder is a carcinogen (sp?). I was making the roux over medium
heat, trying to keep it from burning.  I guess bowling the day before
was a bad idea.
Liadan


Phlip said: "You might have needed a bit more heat- you don't want to
burn it, but you tend to want to use your stirring arm for other things,
too ;-)

Also, you can help gumbo thicken with file powder, and (no $h!t) okra-
that's why it's in so many gumbo recipes."