Damn, It’s Good, and Good for You Too, Gumbo

A satisfying gumbo for chilly nights, just the recipe to celebrate Mardi Gras, with chicken thighs, sausage, shrimp and veggies. ~~~ With a bag full of okra in my refrigerator, it was time to make gumbo. I’ve never cooked with okra. I don’t think I’ve ever eaten much okra. Maybe I had fried okra once. …

Beef and Stout Stew

I worked in restaurants and bars for most of my 20’s and 30’s, as a waitress and bartender in my early 20’s and as a manager for many more years. St. Patrick’s night was always nuts, even at the white tablecloth McCormick & Schmick’s, which Bill McCormick once described as “a bar with a really …