Brit Reacts To BRITS TRY LOUISIANA SOUL FOOD FOR THE FIRST TIME!
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Hi everyone, I’m Kabir and welcome to another episode of Kabir Considers! In this video I’m Going to React To BRITS TRY LOUISIANA SOUL FOOD FOR THE FIRST TIME!
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Prawns and Shrimp ARE two different things. Both animals have 10 legs, but prawns have pincers on three pairs of legs, while shrimp just have one clawed duo. Shrimp are also more flexible than prawns due to their flexible shell structure, whereas prawns have overlapping segments and less mobility.
I also have 10 legs, but 2 left feet.
(I'm trying to choreograph a new silly dance, now.... Did it to myself, heh.)
I never knew this, thanks!
Don't laugh, but I always thought prawns were just really large shrimp. Thanks for the clarification.
Prawns and shrimp are certainly two different but very similar species.
People however, depending where they are from, call them one or the other interchangeably often based on size.
I have caught very large shrimp on the Gulf coast of Texas in the 6-8 to a pound range and people often call them prawns. I assume that a few people think that they are the same thing and prawn or shrimp simply designates the size.
@@voxandlocksthis is what I thought, as well. Nice to know the further differences.
My best friend's daughter moved to London from New Orleans for a teaching position. She loves it and is enjoying her new life, but sincerely misses the food!!! When she comes home for visits all she wants is Mama's home cooking and when anyone visits her they bring her Zatarain's, Tony Chacherie's (both seasonings), and Community Coffee. In case you don't know...red beans and rice are a staple in the Gulf South and traditionally cooked on Mondays because Monday was the day all the Mamas did the washing. You could put on a big pot of red beans, let it simmer all day, and get all your washing done without worrying about watching the pot!! These days, of course, you can have it anytime, but Monday is still the tradition.
Corn bread is part of the quick bread family in the US, & it has many variations throughout each area. The best way to serve it imo is straight out of the oven with a butter & honey mix, so messy & so wonderful
Just teasing-moving to english cuisine from louisiana goodness sounds heartbreaking
Kabir there is NO wrong way to eat cornbread in ANY southern cuisine:)
Exactly. We mix into our collard greens. Soup,beans,
When I go to Africa. I have to make Cornbread for all my African friends they love it.
cornbread is a quick bread that can be savory or made sweet. I prefer it savory.
And you slice it down the middle and slather butter on both halves. Yum!
Corn already comes with a certain intrinsic sweetness to it, it doesn't need any extra sugar. And yes, cornbread should be served fresh and hot out of the oven, with a generous pat of butter melting into it.
Savory cornbread is the BEST! 😋
A saying in our family. "Ain't no sugar in cornbread." That was the kind I was raised on, so it's what I prefer. I imagine folks back in the day made it with out sugar because of the hard time getting it or affording it. I make mine with buttermilk,egg,butter,corn mill,and self rising flour, and a bit of baking powder. Yum
Same, if I want cake that’s what I’ll eat. Cornbread is better savory 😋
Cornbread is REALLY good when you cut it in half and spread some sweet whipped butter on it while its still piping hot! Whipped sweet butter is basically well, whipped butter with honey mixed in! Super delicious! Esp with a bowl of chili!
I like using salted butter to add that savory flavor.
Honey butter. It's the best on cornbread.
Too right! Tough to find good cornbread outside of the South.
Leftover cornbread fried in butter .
I grew up on Red Beans and Rice. My mother used the hambone from the Sunday dinner as the base.
Its cold out tonight. That dish sounds perfect to me.
@@jenniferrowland1339 warm up some garlic bread and you are set.
Kabir, I loved how you were trying to hold back the dribble!🤣🤣🤣I love and cook Cajun/Creole constantly. You're missing out bro!
I don't know why this is so funny. 😂 The corn bread thing. No its not like a biscuit. When the guy said this food is life changing. Now you know why we call it Soul food! I miss New Orleans.
If you don't know, brining chicken in salt & spiced water/buttermilk overnight, then seasoning, letting rest, then frying will give you moist, delicious chicken any time. I have noticed that some chicken in the US isn't as good as it used to be. This brining will help a lot, if you try at home. I do all of the above, but sous vide the chicken, flour, then flash fry just to get the coating because I'm terrified of big vats of boiling oil.
If you can get cornmeal, you can make cornbread. So many good recipes online. Best in a cast iron pan (mine belonged to my great grandmother!), but simple ingredients. Butter, milk, sugar, salt, baking powder, eggs, cornmeal, flour, and a couple other "staple" ingredients. Just follow the instructions and enjoy!
I think if there were chain restaurants featuring LA soul food, it would not be 'authentic' and could take away from the original...kinda like how Taco Bell gives the wrong impression of what Mexican food is to the world.
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Generally, I think that's true...having said that though, Popeye's Red Beans and Rice is pretty legit.
Razoo's is a chain that serves Louisiana cooking. They aren't as good as the real thing, but some of their stuff will do in a pinch. Kinda like you said, comparing Taco Bell to real Mexican food. It's the same with Razoo's.
And def more so with Cajun food. That's a specialty to one specific region. You can't franchise that.
Prawn vs. Shrimp
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Prawns are larger in size, and have larger legs with claws on three pairs. They have branching gills. Shrimp are smaller, have shorter legs and have claws only on two pairs. Their gills are lamellar, i.e. plate-like.
Prawns and shrimp are both decapod crustaceans i.e. that they have exoskeletons and 10 legs. They can be found in salt water and fresh water all over the world, typically swimming in search of food. Both shrimp and prawns tend to stay near the ocean floor. They also have similar flavors, and come in a wide range of sizes from minuscule to quite large.
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I don't think size is the difference. In Thailand, the Thai shrimps can grow to the size of Maine lobsters. On average, they're the size of typical prawns but still shrimp. I'm not sure if that's why there's so much confusion in the rest of the world on the differences.
you're not supposed to eat those large shrimps from what I've heard they're supposed to be thrown back.@@JakkiPi
There is nothing better than a pan of cornbread fresh from the oven, slathered in butter and dripping with honey! Honestly, I could make that a meal in itself lol. But it works so good with chili, fried chicken, I even have a recipe that calls for taco meat layered in the middle and topped with cheese and salsa.
Omg, this is the first time I've heard anyone else mention that recipe. My mom found it in a cookbook years and years ago. I am a picky eater and wasn't a fan as a kid, so we separated the layers, but that was such a delicious and fun recipe to cook
Louisiana hot sauces are typically vinegar based. Crystal, Tabasco, and Louisiana Hot all are. Since vinegar (or malt vinegar?) is a popular condiment on fries in the UK from what I've heard, I wonder if Brits would like one of those sauces on top of fries or other things for that vinegariness with a bit of heat.
its usually for the sake of preservatives as opposed to flavor. i make my own hot sauce and the more vinegar you add, the more shelf stable it is
You will never be frowned at for soppin' up your plate with a bread , biscuit , or cornbread. Mammaw appreciates it when you clean your plate.
Oh I am such a sopper upper! Was raised that way.
My mother was from Alabama and Cornbread would be in a glass with Buttermilk poured over it. I hated it because I don't like to drink Buttermilk. Cornbread is eaten / served with mostly every meal in Southern & Soul Food cooking.
I'm actually hyped because I've been subbed to them since they started and at the time only had 385 or so subscribers. It's SO cool seeing other channels I love like Kabir's here reacting to them now and for them to be getting semi-popular already (I don't want to jinx anything lol)
As I've said in several of their videos (especially these Southern food videos) food like this is "soul" food, or "hearty" etc. but they are usually made with very few ingredients or they are just seasoned to perfection. Simple dishes, executed to perfection, you get incredible flavors and textures. Food doesn't have to be complicated to be "life changing" as they like to say in their videos - it just has to be cooked with love and care. Also, I've said in this specific video of theirs - I hate fish/seafood so gumbo for me will either be pork or chicken (or other meats if you can find it) but gumbo can just be insanely flavorful. Oh, and shrimp and prawns are actually two different things, it has to do with the pincers on the little legs they have as they both have 10 legs I believe.
Cornbread is so versatile too. Cut a slice while hot, add lots of butter, top with chopped onions and cover with any bean. My folks would crumble leftover cornbread into buttermilk and eat it that way. too
I love this couple! They are so cute and hilarious. When Andrew said he'd never knew shrimp could be so flavorful and Nicola said they'd been missing out, i cracked up laughing because of all the JOLLY videos I've watched, they make the same comment about spice and flavor, lol. We use the terms prawns and shrimp differently because technically they are not the same. They are used interchangeably (like sweet potatoes and yams) but anatomically they are different. Prawns tend to be larger than shrimp with three pairs of claw-like legs, while shrimp have only one pair. Prawns also have longer legs than shrimp. Prawns also can't bend their bodies like a shrimp can and they also reproduce differently. They are from different branches of the crustacean family. Most prawns species are found in fresh water while a smaller percentage of shrimp species are fresh water.
From what I can tell .. about something I know so little of .. seems that names we use here in the US are local(ish) critters .. what we might call lobster or shrimp or prawn .. are generic names ... that there a lot of crustaceans .. that get lumped together under the generic
Brits always say "the spices" are what impresses them. Soul food and especially Louisiana soul food is exquisitely spiced. I always enjoy watching them eat our food. It makes me want whatever they're eating. As an aside, shrimp and prawns are not the same thing.
It’s strange considering Great Britain introduced spices to India. India has more spices in their food than anywhere in the Uk today.
Cooking red beans and rice on a rainy day while my kids and husband are playing in the living room.... that's the good stuff.
If you're serious about making gumbo, I recommend Alton Brown's method of making the roux. It's very used friendly for the beginner. The darker the roux, the better the gumbo. Veg needed is onion, celery and green bell peppers. Spice mix of cayenne pepper and black pepper, dry mustard, paprika, sage, cumin, bay leaves, thyme, and parsley. Any mild german sausage will work in a pinch. Chicken and shrimp is also pretty common. I think the hardest thing for you to find for authenticity is filé powder (dried and ground leaves of the sassafras tree). A good roux and bit of filé is the secret to gumbo.
Kabir, I don't think there's anything better on UA-cam than your foodie videos!! 🎉🎉🎉❤❤
Southern Louisiana is like no other. My parents are from there, but they moved to Texas before I was born. My mother is creole, mixed with African, Native American, and French. She would cook gumbo and other Louisiana foods all the time. We would go visit many times, mainly to eat. It is such a unique place. Many of the spices and flavors can only be gotten there. They also have great accents down there.
Nicola and Andrew went to New Orleans and instead of visiting only the big tourist places, they went to neighborhood restaurants. They experienced real Louisiana food the way the locals like it. They have several more videos like this one.
The restaurant owner that they took a picture with was featured in Jolly’s video when they tried Louisiana soul food at that same exact restaurant.
There's so much variety with cornbread. Yellow vs white cornmeal, coarse vs fine grind, with flour or without, sugar vs no sugar. I like a coarse ground yellow cornbread, served with honey if being eaten by itself 😋
Your right! There is nothing like authentic Louisiana food. We do call shrimp and prawns 2 different things. I make gumbo and red beans and riice when I can because I just love to cook. I have a kitchen cabinet filled with seasonings and at least 4 are for Louisiana cooking. There is a place here in New Jersey where we go at least twice a month to chow down on some great Cajun food. I hope you get to have your dream of experiencing some for your self one day. It IS life changing.😋😋😋😋
No mention of file’, gumbo would not be complete without file’ . Which is ground sassafras leaves.
Gumbo can be made from anything that "walks, crawls, flies, or swims," so you really shouldn't have trouble sourcing ingredients.
corn bread goes with turnip or collard greens, beans, stew, whatever. Also good on its own with butter and honey or maple syrup.
Red beans and rice is easy. You just need a can of red kidney beans an onion, sausage. I use smoked sausage and of course rice. I make everything separate. I cut the sausage into bite size pieces and chop the onion and fry them together in skillet. I make rice in a separate pot and boil the beans in another pot. I know a lot of people use a lot of seasoning but I don't. I make it this to allow everyone to create their plate as they like. Just start with rice spoon in the amount of red kidney beans you want over rice and then add the meat mixture. Try it
Thank you for sharing your recipe.
I ate there when I was in New Orleans last month for Mardi Gras. I had a shrimp po boy. It was delicious!
My mom always made cornbread with chili. Tabasco and the like is usually vinegar, red pepper, and a bit of salt. Good heat, so you don't usually need too much. I always put some on my omelet.
If you cook, there's a couple of Cajun cooks you can check out on youtube . Old school Justin Wilson,and present day Charlie the cook Andrew's .Just a little FYI if you can't find the specific ingredients then substitute with local similar ingredients. Example if you cannot find andoullie sausage then use a local smoked sausage and a bit of red pepper. According to Justin Wilson the old time Cajun cooks developed there recipes by using what was available. You are never wrong for using what you have. Also the trick is to season as you go, rather than all at once. If you are cooking chicken and rice then you Season the chicken, you Season the rice and you Season the sauce. It takes a bit of practice to learn how much seasoning is needed in each step.
Red beans and rice is amazing! Either with sausage, preferably andouille, or bits of ham from a ham bone. I don’t know how well a soul food restaurant in London would be able to replicate the tastes. Prawns are different from shrimp, it has to with differences in their claws. Thank you for reacting to them Kabir, I love this couple and watch their videos frequently. BTW they’re visiting Nashville now.
Cornbread is popular all over the US. It's actually NOT anything like a biscuit. It's more like a cake, but with a grainy texture. Toasted corn muffins are very popular for breakfast in New England. In my area, we have a local grist mill that sells stone ground corn meal for muffins and Johnny Cakes.
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5:09 I see she is wearing a sweatshirt advertising them. I love her bubbly personality and her husbands laid back personality.
You picked the right state if you want the absolutely best seafood .... or FOOD period!!!!! If you seriously want to try a crawfish boil, then plan your trip around Easter! Just let 'em know you're from another country and want to try it and they will be HAPPY to invite you to participate!!!! I make 5 gallons of red beans at a time and can it in jars! I make the rice when I'm ready to eat it! I cooked Crawfish Etouffee for CHRISTmas dinner and still have a little left in the freezer! Honey, I'd LOVE to treat you to a southern meal. My husband inspired to be a chef but he always made me make the cornbread! Been using the same skillet for over 60 years!!!!! Gumbo should have shrimp and crabs as well as sausage in it!!! It's traditionally served over rice! Prawns are larger shrimp and have 3 pincers instead of 2. I live in Mississippi but my heart and stomach are still in New Orleans where I was born!
The Brits are always shocked that we cook with spices. I married a London girl, and it even took her a while to figure it out. There's a reason all of our food tastes so good.
I do okra, tomato, onion and fatback// with rice..........And my Grandma's fried chicken and cornbread...
When I don't call this soul food, I call this either Cajun or Creole food, but it's in a soul food restaurant that they're serving it in for this occasion.
Southern cooking teaches Cajun spices … file’ powder aka Savory seasoning and some of the best pressure cooking chicken ; and corn bread is served in many styles , a cake , a muffin , a pancake … depends on your dish served !
As a rule, Prawns are larger than shrimp and are actually slightly different anatomically though the flavor is pretty much the same. It could be difficult for a lay person to tell the difference once they were cooked and out of the shell so perhaps that is why we have the distinction. I have been a fan of cornbread since my childhood. My mom made it savory though I now make it sweeter and I use cake flour instead of all purpose flour so it is more tender and cake like. It is all good and I usually put butter and honey on the savory and just butter or nothing on the sweet.
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I think you correctly stated, “as a rule”.
Certainly some species of prawns are small and some species of shrimp can be huge, but….. as a rule, prawns are larger.
New Orleans has the best food in the country maybe even the world in my opinion. Red beans and rice is my all time favorite
I recall watching a Sorted Food video from a few years ago where they ordered a NOLA DIY food kit (shrimp boil) from a restaurant in the London area , it could give you the flavors of NOLA if it's still open.
In the US, “prawns” are from fresh water while “shrimp” usually come from the sea.
different species of animal
Hi Kabir, that got me hungry too! I'm a Louisiana Cajun and of course I've been eating these things all of my life. I'm also a very good Cajun cook. There are all kinds of gumbo. You can use different combinations of meats. I like a good seafood gumbo with crab, shrimp and oysters, also, another favorite is chicken or duck and sausage gumbo.
I usually add a little hot sauce to my gumbo at the table. You have to know your hot sauces though. The one he used wasn't a very hot (spicy) sause but there are some that will set your tounge on fire, so it's best to try it first!
There is a chain of restaurants called Razoo's that serves Cajun and Creole food. They aren't the best, but some of their stuff is decent. Maybe they'll open one in London.
Prawns and shrimp are often confused, but they are actually different species.
Lol, Kabir, you looked like you wanted to crawl through the screen and help them eat it!
LOL...I've always loved seeing people really enjoying their food. I'm from Georgia, southwestern area, and love all manner of southern food with the exception of Louisianna food as it is too spicy for me. You're asking why Americans called "prawns" shrimp made me laugh as I've always wondered why the British always referred to "shrimp" as prawns. Thanks for this video. I needed to see and hear something positive today.
Okay Kabir, now I’m hungry. 😂 The BEST cornbread is fried (it looks like pancakes) and you slather it in butter. I also like baked cornbread muffins that have corn and honey in them. Southern food, without a doubt, is the best food because of the seasonings used.
There is a difference between Creole style and Cajun style. Also, the initial layer is French, with a bit of Spanish from when they controlled Louisiana, and a heavy influence of herbs and spices, and cooking techniques and flavor profiles from the slave brought there from Africa, plus Caribbean influences as well.
Come to L.A. and let the folks there hook you up with street tacos, hotdogs wrapped in bacon and served on a bun with grilled onions and pepper, and fresh tamales, huevos rancheros, menudo, maybe a little lengua or cabeza if you are daring. Fresh handmade tortillas. Wash it down with some jamaica or tamarindo.........
Ja I’d, if you and your family visit South Louisiana please visit the Heart of Cajun Cuisine in Acadiana!!
Also, keep in mind that there are two different versions of most of the Louisiana dishes. There’s the creole version and then there’s the Cajun version. The spices are a little different and the other ingredients are different, so do you keep that in mind. It looked like in the video they were eating Cajun-style Gumbo. But I can’t tell for sure.
I love Nicola's reactions, enthusiasm and charm. Especially with stone-face (but fun!) Andrew.
In America, generally, what are called prawns are always much larger. Like Santa Barbara spot prawns, which are huge. The smaller sizes we call shrimp. That said, they are actually two different animals.
As for Andouille sausage, that indeed would probably be hard to find in England. A smoked sausage or kielbasa or perhaps a Spanish style chorizo would probably be the best substitutes.
I’m in Lafayette Louisiana. Red beans and rice is a simple but flavorful food. We season it with onions, bell peppers, celery, and maybe some garlic. Our sausage is also seasoned so we don’t need to add more seasoning. Having it with a slice of cornbread adds a hint of sweet with the savory and spicy beans and rice. We can sometimes make the cornbread into corn muffins with also works.
Looks sooooo good!
Google a seafood gumbo! I'm from Florida but my dad is from Louisiana and his gumbo is to die for!😊
Hey Kabir, not sure if it's a thing in the UK or not, but there is a subscription service here in the states called Gold Belly that does ship various favorite dishes from famous restaurants coast to coast. I'm not sure if they're available in your area, but it would be worth looking into. They're definitely pricey, but they're a great option for trying popular famous foods from the states!
Corn bread is not like an American biscuit, it is a very crumbly savory cake. It goes well with chili, gumbo, stew, etc. It is not a dessert like cake.
If you want to make gumbo, from what I hear andouille sausage is nearly impossible to find but Polish Keilbasa makes a decent substitute.
Everyone, remember, Josh and Ollie were there.
Corn bread YUMMY!!!!!
Kabir, you can look up recipes on-line to make this, you can also mail order the spices. I have no idea what ordering the spices will cost.
Cornbread is akin to a moist cake with a crunchy exterior
Kabir, Another thing to consider is a real New England clam bake not a clam boil or lobster boil but it can also be called a lobster bake but really any combination of local shellfish and corn on the cob and sausages and other stuff like potatoes and onions anyway the most accurate way would be to look up a Cape Cod Clam bake and if it tells you to do anything other than digging a trench at the salt water beach near the water and putting in red hot rocks and covering with fresh seaweed then the food then more seaweed then covering with heavy canvas and steaming the food. People will say you can do it in boxes and pots you can but it will be a poor excuse fake part of the flavor is the minerals and sea salt in the sand and fresh seaweed permeating the steam and the food you only get that if you do in a trench in the ocean sand. There’s probably a lot of places you could do this in England and film a Kabir Considers Clambake
5:13 Kabir, you could make Cornbread it's not hard. The recipe is on the round cylinder package of Quaker Cornmeal. Quaker is the brand. There is white cornmeal and yellow cornmeal. I like the yellow. It's not expensive around $2 for 16oz.
That would be fun, hopefully I dont set the kitchen on fire 😂
@@kabirconsiders It's easy to make. You can make cornbread in 11" x 9" glass or metal pan with just a spatula and a single measuring cup. You can't mess up cornbread. Just mix the ingredients in the pan with the spatula. I've made cornbread at least 500 hundred times in my life.
If you want perfect cornbread you'd need to dirty about 6 different bowls, measuring instruments and pans.
Also, if you become interested in making cornbread there are molds you can use to make them into shapes. The historic and iconic cornbread mold was made of cast iron by the company Willet in little ears of corn (eight to the mold). I have two Willet molds and also two cast aluminum molds. The aluminum molds are little fish. If you like cornbread crispy then use molds. I bought all the molds at thrift stores for a pittance since the molds are 50-60 years old now.
@@kabirconsiders You can make cornbread. I have faith in you.
That made me soooo hungry. It’s been way too long since I’ve been to New Orleans🤗❤️🐝. My dear sweet Kabir, $100 wouldn’t get your meal out of Louisiana ❤️
WOW they are only 70 miles from my house. Takes about 45 minutes to an hour to get to my house. Red beans and rice are my favorite food and I put loads of smoked sausage in it. Cornbread is not a biscuit it’s more of a cake. Cool they’re from Manchester because I grew up there. Moved to Mississippi in 1972.
.I don't think England has corn meal. My Aunt married a man from London and he said it's just not there. It's not corn flour or corn starch. It's different and I don't think you will be able to try it over there. He said that people in London just don't spice the food. I love to hear him tell the difference of the two countries. My Dad had to go to London and Ireland and he said the food was lacking. He was in London during the hoof disease scare so no beef. He won't eat lamb/mutton so fish for a week got old. He was starving for beef when he got home. Him and his co worker went to a restaurant, and they had a if you finish the fish dinner you got something. They both not only finished the meal, but were still hungry. He had broke a rib right before the trip and was hurting. He couldn't believe he could get what we call Lorotab pill over the counter. Here people will lie and steal for these pills. He was very happy he could get them. They were low dose but he doubled up. He has back problems and here his usual dose was 7.5 so he was happy to be able to get some relief. He had to go on this trip, and this man went to work right after he had a heart attack. He was in his office fixing to hit the road when the lady stopped him and told him he looked bad. She found out that he thought he'd had a heart attack so she called my mom. He wouldn't take a ambulance so my mom took him. He was in the hospital a week and out of work almost 9 months. The doctor messed his leg up when he put the stint. We are white but my dad's leg was blacker than any black person we know. His buddies told him since he was black then he could really be their brother. He broke his arm at work and yup the job took him to the hospital after he had drove their rig through Atlanta traffic. He said changing gears was hurting his arm. My dad is a tough man. We finally talked him into retirement at age 70. He has really went down since retirement, but we try to keep him busy. It's hard watching your hero get old.
I'm craving black eyed peas with smoked ham hock with a side of hot water cornbread. 🤤
The best red beans and rice I ever had was a hole in the wall in NOLA. I am a majority done and mid bite I see a roach (they say waterbugs) crawling the wall. I am ashamed to say I was too far in to stop eating. I still think about that meal!
There are Cajun/Creole restaurants in London. But its hard to say how they compare to the original.
Lol, literally had homemade red beans and rice for dinner last night. Almost ate a family-size serving myself
Corn bread is NOT a biscuit. I've been making it in a cast iron skillet seasoned with bacon grease since I was a kid. It's good with bbq, gumbo, any beans. I'm going to have to make some tonight now. Lol
Company called goldbelly will deliver nationally, but probably not internationally but you can check
Gumbo is not difficult to make. You don't really NEED a specific (usually andouille) sausage. Just about any smoked sausage will do. Something like a kielbasa would be fine. The hardest part is getting the roux right. If you take slow and pay attention to it, it's not difficult.
I'm in Louisiana. Crystal is my favorite hot sauce. It isn't that hot, but very flavorful, my brother drinks it out the bottle and now got his lil girl (his daughter) drinking it too now!
Try checking out Soulful Seafood. It's a little south of London proper, but the online reviews are great. Five stars.
Seems like they would have an expanded vocabulary beyond oh my God and this is delicious.
I love soul food, I have red beans and rice with sausage sometimes with chicken once or twice a week, also there is a soul food restaurant about 3 miles from my house, I go at least once a week, yeah they know me..,
Why do Brits allow themselves to be so food deprived. Indian, Chinese, Italian are not all there is. I bet there are at least a couple of American restaurants in London.
In reference to you delivery comments, London does not seem the best place for fast food delivery out of a certain area.
Cornbread is bread made out of cornmeal, I like savory. Sweet cornbread tastes like cake to mr.
I’m glad to see there’s someone else besides me that doesn’t care for sweet cornbread such as Jiffy mix! I’m old school and prefer real cornbread vs corn cake.
Cornbread is best straight out of the skillet with a lot of butter.
I’ve been in 47 of the lower 48 states. In my opinion, Louisiana is tied with the BBQ states (mostly south and southeast states) for the best food in the U.S..
Same basic 'animal' but Shrimp are from the oceans/seas, prawns are from inland freshwater sources.
You need to find andouillie sausage cajun seasoning file (pronounced feelay) powder and a good recipe from here, not an English version oh and get those shrimp or prawns with the heads on because you want to make a shrimp stock for your gumbo instead of water or chicken stock/broth it will really bring out the shrimp flavor. Good Luck!
Cornbread is not sweet enough to be a dessert, usually there is very little sugar added, some people don't add any. Shrimp and Prawns are not the same, just in the same family and taste similar but prawns are usually bigger but there are anatomical differences between the two.
The Internet says there are restaurants in London, that serve gumbo. 🤷🏼♀️
Cornbread and milk. Red beans and rice. Any kind of gumbo.
That was a great video!!
We live on a mountaintop in Wyoming…
I just had my 78th birthday and it’s very unlikely that I will ever get to Louisiana…
So, all you people out there…please think of this “old” lady when you get a chance to eat that incredible Louisiana cuisine…
My nickname is Corky…❤
Corky, that's too bad. Louisiana is a sight to see and an experience. I hope in my heart you get the chance to go. Living in Wyoming on a mountain top sounds just as lovely an experience. We're neighbors in region. I rarely go up Pikes Peak, though no mountains for me. 😨
Hi Corky. I’m from Long Island, NY and currently live in PA. I’ve never been to Wyoming and am not sure I’ll ever get there (I’m slightly younger than you) but your mountaintop living sounds like paradise. I hope you get to Louisiana but if not know that those of us that probably won’t get to Louisiana either will living vicariously through others just like you. I love that we get to watch others react to things that are a far away. All my best from Pennysylvania.
Corn bread dip it everything savory or sweet
I will get my mother to cook for us, gumbo red beans and rice and jambalaya. Then I will get my nephew to bowl some crawfish and shrimp.
Kabir try and make a Texas chili, some chips(fries) and cheese. Bon appetit.
Kabir,
If you get decent fried chicken, pull pieces off and dip it in Ranch dressing, sounds weird I know but try it.
Someone at home we fix fried chicken and make a mixture of honey and a little hot sauce and pour it on the chicken.
Google Mamma Cherri's in London. Gordan Ramsey did an episode there and it's still open. He said it's true soul food.
Cornbread is nothing like a biscuit, cornbread is a quick bread made with cornmeal with a golden brown cracked surface and the texture is soft, dense and crumbly. A biscuit is made from flour-based and the texture of a biscuit should be light, fluffy, mouthwatering, flaky and tender not crumbly or dry.
We eat the corn bread with the beans.
Damn that fried chicken looks amazing, just put a little hot sauce on there. Damn I'm hungry now. I can't do the gumbo as allergic to seafood. The red-beans & rice. looked amazing too. When you said I bet it smells good, my tastebuds when into overdrive. Now craving some red-beans & rice. I might have to drive 60km round trip, but I sure it'll be worth it.