a seafood gumbo

I made this seafood gumbo a week ago. I didn't plan it. It all started from my shopping at my Asian seafood store ABC Seafood. Whenever I go grocery shopping at the East side of Portland, I would usually check in to see what surprises Sharon has in store (pun intended) for me. Sometimes there are just the usually stuff. Sometimes something is in season and is good and cheap. In this trip they have live crawfish. I didn't know Oregon produces farmed crawfish until a while ago when I asked Sharon where they are from. Oregon, she said.

road trip - spring 2014, part 11

This is the eleventh installment of the series of post on a road trip during the spring of 2014. I woke up with a cold sweat last night. I realize if I don't grab my blogging by the hone (think unicorn) my series of the recent road trip will never finish.

gumbo in portland

I didn't plan to make gumbo. This all happened spontaneously when I was down to only 6 oyster in shell in the refrigerator with nothing else left to make a full meal. I originally plan to make BBQ oyster (NOLA style that should be called grilled oyster) with them. I remember I still have some okras that are on the way out in the refrigerator. Gumbo - the light bulb in my mind lit up.

home made andouille and tasso

This is my second attempt in making andouille sausages. It is also my second attempt in sausage making endeavor. I did a batch before my first taste of the real thing in Louisiana in my recent road trip.

road trip - spring 2014, part 7

This is the seventh installment of the series of post on a road trip during the spring of 2014. We are about half way through with this road trip series.

I have mentioned in earlier posts of this trip of the bookmarks of places I planned to visit. Here are some in the Louisiana.
like the saying goes "eyes are bigger than the stomach", I was not able to see all of them for reasons of schedule or distance

NOLA Style Grilled Oysters

I went grocery shopping yesterday. I bought some mussels as well as a dozen of Oregon oysters. Normally oysters from Asian seafood stores tend to be the no so good ones because the smaller ones are sold to the oyster bars. For $8 I came home with a dozen of relatively small one than usual.

road trip - spring 2014, part 6

This is the sixth installment of the series of post on a road trip during the spring of 2014.

road trip - spring 2014, part 5

This is the fifth installment of the series of post on a road trip during the spring of 2014.

road trip - spring 2014, part 4

This is the forth installment of the series of post on a road trip during the spring of 2014.

road trip - spring 2014, part 3

This is the third installment of the series of posts on the road trip I took in the spring of 2014. I came home with close to 5000 photos and video clips.

road trip - spring 2014, part 1

This is the first post of many to follow on a recent road trip crossing many states.

crawfish and clam etouffee

Recently I have been quite fed up with the dumbing down of the cooking shows on my local PBS affliliate station. I started watching BBC Food on Youtube. I was inspired by Floyd's American Pie on Youtube.