Haven’t posted here in awhile so I thought I would share the meal I cooked tonight. I fixed some seafood gumbo on Saturday for our small group meal on Sunday night. Turned out pretty good so I took the leftover and let it thicken up some. Made some thick grits and let them get cold. Then I made a couple of patties out of the grits. Fried the patties in a skillet with butter. Then poured the thick gumbo over the fried grits. It was really delicious. Definitely what I will do with leftover gumbo from now on.

Can I come for leftovers? you could pour that in the floor & I'd lap it up. Looks dang fine.

Good grief

Very awesome

I would absolutely HURT myself with that.

Looks incredible I usually serve my gumbo over cheese grits rather than rice lot of folk also run potato salat instead of rice too nice entry for sure!!!!!

That's an epic entry

Dad gum!!!

Very Nice!!

Awesome!

Yep

Looks great to me!

Yep. Got me wanting to buy some crab claws and some lump crab meat 🤤

That’s some count and nice move with the claws!!!!

I always have claws in my seafood gumbo. Helps with the flavor to me. Maybe it’s just in my head.

Sometimes I’ll put a crab split and cleaned in there too and just let it soak while it simmers.

Last pot had a lb if claw meat and lb of lump. Gonna do the actual claws like this next time.

Looks great. I do think the shells add flavor.

Where did you get the claws?

The seafood capital of Alabama. Bayou La Batre.

But all the supermarkets around here have em. Not sure if they do that in alabaster.

I have used canned claw meat and canned lump before too. It’s not bad with that. I could barely tell the difference honestly. Usually it’s still $20-25 dollars a can so it’s not really cheaper to use it so I just use fresh.

Between the crab claws, claw meat and lump meat, you can easily have $75 just in crab meat. By the time you add shrimp and all the good stuff I will usually be around $110 a pot. That pot will feed a dozen people though.