Larry’s Gumbo
The weather is beginning to turn cooler and my appetite is running toward heartier foods. A couple of nights ago while driving home from work I decided I wanted some gumbo. I didn’t have a recipe so while I was sitting in traffic I made one up. It turned out pretty good and it was simple to make. Here’s the recipe:
- 1lb. Ground Beef
- 1 medium white onion chopped
- 2 stalks of celery thinly sliced
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1Tbs olive oil
- 1 can Okra undrained
- 1 can diced tomatoes undrained
- 1 can Navy beans undrained
- 1tsp ground cumin
- 1tsp oregeno
- 1 (or more)tsp of cayenne pepper
- 1tsp salt
Brown the ground beef and drain.
In a 2qt. sauce pan over medium heat, heat the olive oil until it shimmers then add the onion, celery and garlic and saute until tender. Add in the drained ground beef, okra, tomatoes and navy beans and stir.
Heat until bubbling, add the cumin, oregeno, cayenne pepper and salt and stir.
Reduce heat and cover. Let it simmer for about fifteen minutes stirring occassionally.
This ought to serve six people but if you are as hungry as I was when I finished it will only serve four. It was just as good the next day as my lunch.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
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