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Daring Seafood Gumbo

Seafood Gumbo

This month’s Daring Kitchen challenge is Gumbo!

Gumbo is a stew from Louisiana that is often made up of meat or shellfish, and is thickened with a dark roux, okra and/or filé powder. I was already excited to try cooking a dark roux again (for the second time ever), but things got even more exciting when I realized I had to get a new seasoning – filé.
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Macaroni Phoney

Macaroni & Cheese Fail

Baloney!

This is another word that rhymes with macaroni, and expresses my disappointment with my first attempt at homemade macaroni and cheese.

I kinda thought this would be an easy one. I mean, who can’t make macaroni and cheese? If you can make it with bizarre ingredients from a box, you should be able to make it amazing from scratch. That wasn’t quite what happened.

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