Re: (2007-12-21) New survey on the RFC site: Eating well on US$40.00 per week?

Christine Dabney wrote:
Sheldon wrote:

Very funny.... ;) �You don't say how much left over turkey went into
the dish... could have been 1/4 the turkey which would be
substantial.

I think I had about 6-8 cups of turkey meat..both light and dark. This
was from a 20 pound turkey. �I used the trinity (green peppers,
onions, celery) in the gumbo. �I had a pound of Andouille, which I had
bought for about $5 earlier in the month.

Gumbo is essentially a depression mentality dish anyway... even with
little meat make it thick enough with plenty of browned flour and
served over plenty cheapo rice it will fill a lot of bellies for very
little money... gumbo is essentially highly seasoned starch and fat,
filling and tasty but not at all a nutritious dish, definitely
subsistance food about as nutritious as subsisting on potato chips
only cheaper.

I guess you haven't had a great gumbo then.. ;)

This is the recipe I used. �The instructions for the turkey meat are
at the end. �I used more turkey, than I would have used chicken. �

http://recipes.egullet.org/recipes/r772.html

There is nothing healthful/nutritious about that dish, it's mostly
starch and fat calories... what little veggies it contains are cooked
to death from square one, really only for flavoring... and of course
that dish is salty as heck, part of what makes it tasty. Gumbo is
eating gooood, not eating well. No matter what recipe, gumbo is a
poverty dish... that cup of flour stretches a little meat a looooong
way.

If you serve that kind of food as a steady diet your family would all
be morbidly obesse.

SHELDON
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