Comments on: Eating Dixie: Rabbit Gumbo Recipe and Gumbo Basics

By: Johan Johansen

Johan Johansen — Thu, 09 May 2019 08:02:14 +0000

In reply to Pat. Rabbit in supermarkets? I will have to get my ass back to FL :) I appreciate the kind words and hope you'll have a blast with the rabbit gumbo. I did enjoy fried gator tail but can imagine it would drown in the gumbo. Okra is my thickening agent of choice as well! :)

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 07 May 2019 13:31:34 +0000

Our supermarket always carries rabbit. Dressed and cleaned and ready to be cut into bite size pieces. After reading your great essay, we decided that we will have rabbit Gumbo this weekend with shrimp and sausage. We have tried alligator Gumbo but it sorta gets lost in all the other flavors and nobody knows it is in there and it is very expensive, even down here. Will stick to fried gator tail. We like our Gumbo thin, so we make a nice (Hershey’s Chocolate Bar) color. File Powder is added just before serving for flavor and never understood how that could be a thickening agent? Okra gets it plenty thick for us.

Tallahassee, Fl

By: Johan

Johan — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 21:08:18 +0000

In reply to A_Boleyn.

Thanks for stopping by! 🙂 Really, 26 years? I reckon it’s about time for another real gumbo, either home made or by way of a trip back to New Orleans 😉

I suppose I’ll have to edit my stance on filé only being available in the US, thanks for that interesting bit of information!

By: A_Boleyn

A_Boleyn — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 20:01:04 +0000

I haven’t had REAL gumbo since ’88 on my first and only visit to New Orleans. (That was a time.)

I’ve been wanting to make my own ever since.

I’ve even had several whole rabbits, raised by my parents, to give a good start to the gumbo, but other than using Zatarain’s gumbo boxed mix, for something that’s the equivalent of mac and cheese out of the blue Kraft mac and cheese box, I haven’t made the attempt. One day, though, with okra or maybe even file powder as I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it up here in southwestern Ontario. That’s in Canada, by the way. 🙂