a keeper

My first "trial" recipe for the week: Gumbo.
And I modified it. Quite a bit. So I'll give you my version.

COMBINE:
1 pack of chicken breast tenderloins, cut into pieces
2 chicken bouillon cubes
a lot of water
1 T salt
a handful of mushrooms, chopped up (optional)
1/2 an onion, chopped up
1 tsp of minced garlic
a lot of celery seed (my substitute for not finding the celery stalks I "KNEW" I had in the fridge)

Bring to a boil in a saucepan, then lower to a simmer.

In a skillet, cook 1/2 lb of sausage (my substitute for not having kielbasa, or whatever it is). Add it to the chicken mixture, but save the grease in the skillet. Throw a thing of corn in the mixture (I gotta get rid of those multiplying frozen bags somehow!)

Pull some of the broth from the mixture, and use in place of water for the rice. Start cooking the rice.
Peel the shrimp, then add it to the chicken mixture. (I used 1/2 of a pd bag)
Add oil to the skillet (with the sausage grease) making it about 1/4 cup. Add 1/4 c of flour, and continuously stir over medium heat. When mixture becomes like gravy, add it to the chicken mixture.
Serve over rice.

It took a little longer to prepare than what I normally cook, but it was good and something I'll probably fix again. Hooray for one good recipe out of the pile!

The original recipe can be found here.