Tag: recipes
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Chicken and Andouille Gumbo and Beer
I describe how to make a chicken and andouille gumbo with a simple roux making technique.
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Tasso: it’s like ham, but it isn’t
Today, I want to talk about tasso, pronounced TAsow. It sort of rhymes with Tahoe. Tasso is a fantastic charcuterie meat created in southern Louisiana. It is fast cured, seasoned, and smoked pork shoulder. It is easy to prepare and extremely versatile in its uses. My first memory of Tasso was as the missing item in…
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Eggs Benedict and the Ship of Theseus
I ponder the permutations of Eggs Benedict wondering when does a poached egg dish cease being a variation of Eggs Benedict. I also made breakfast.
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Cajun Andouille
A Recipe in Prose I want to talk about andouille. For those of you reading this sans serif, those are “L”s. Don’t worry, we’re not going to pronounce them. It’s ann-DOO-ee. We also won’t be calling it andouille sausage. This feels akin to putting in one’s PIN number into the ATM machine. More specifically, I…