How To Use Gumbo In A Sentence

The common basis of all gumbos is the roux, a roughly equal combination of flour and fat cooked until very nearly burnt; it is the dark smoky roux that gives the gumbo its colour and flavour.
On the other hand, when armed with a large umbrella or a well-fitting raincoat and perhaps a pair of gumboots, it is possible to enjoy the monsoon rains, and take time out to splash through muddy puddles and wade through waterlogged roads.
We slogged around looking for suicidal prairie dogs and learned that hills and gumbo can overcome the best four-wheel drive trucks.
The roasted fruit is emollient and used as a poultice in the treatment of gumboils, dental abscesses etc.
It wasn't until the early 19th century that Creoles in New Orleans began using tomatoes in gumbos and jambalayas.

Anyway, it's easier to wear gumboots when you don't have to tuck your trousers in.
It is then that, stripped for a brief moment of our armour of complacency and self-esteem, we see ourselves as we are -- frightful chumps in a world where nothing goes right; a grey world in which, hoping to click, we merely get the raspberry; where, animated by the best intentions, we nevertheless succeed in perpetrating the scaliest bloomers and landing our loved ones neck-deep in the gumbo. Jill the Reckless
From 1943 to his death in 1989, King Louis Narcisse fused Baptist, Pentecostal, and gris-gris traditions into a gumbo of ritual and hagiography.
The impressive cast of 18 dancers and drummers combine pantsula and tap with Tswana and gumboot dancing and the rhythmic beat of drums.
Where I had a showerproof jacket over an ordinary suit and no hat, he had come equipped with the full bit: a red padded cap with ear flaps fastened with a strap under his chin, blue padded trousers tucked into short wide-legged gumboots, and a red padded jacket fastened up the front with silver coloured press studs. Slay Ride
There is nothing worse than a pouting that's been asleep all day in a plastic bag, or a mackerel that's been slipped down someone's gumboot.
For me, ‘in the soup’ is one of the various locative idioms for being in trouble - up the creek, in a fix, in deep gumbo - and the AHD agrees.
Women unable to feed the bellies of hungry children, were forced to rummage through garbage, and by the grace of God, and anointed creativity, found leftovers okra, rice, tomato, a scrap of pork and a fragment of shrimp to create a meal we call gumbo. Rev. Otis Moss III: A Blue Note Gospel
I was wearing gumboots and a singlet, and thought I would draw scornful gazes towards such disheveled attire.
But I did laugh very merrily when the reception manager made his way around the courtyard diners, rigged up in full Father Christmas gear and gumboots five sizes too big.
Last year I was in New Orleans and had plenty of gumbo, jambalaya, and crawfish étouffée.
The gumbo is served, followed by the most tender and tasty meat imaginable with sides of sangre and the cooked large grain, preferably to the sound of live music. BBQ Goat In Oaxaca: The Pomp, Ceremony And Tradition
Dance punk or dark disco - or whatever you label it - strives to mix politics, funk and electronica into a copacetic musical gumbo.
He parked his car a few yards in front of Macawber, donned a light windproof jacket and half-length gumboots and wandered off towards the sea.
Sweaters, gumboots and brollies at hand in the car. Times, Sunday Times
These include goober (peanut), gumbo (okra), and voodoo (witchcraft).
'Toothache,' growled Topsy, in reply, 'not gumboil;' the remedy suggested by Mrs Pulchop being for the latter of these ills. Madame Midas
Did we see a BBC reporter up to their gumboots in a snowdrift. Open Thread
It was full of black and white and beige people, silly cocktail frocks worn with gumboots.
Deinacrida rugosa are gentle giants - herbivores far less ferocious than the smaller tree weta we find in our garages, gardens and gumboots! Archive 2007-02-01
Another establishment has circulated a coupon for its seafood gumbo, even serving it in a half-gallon size vessel.
In fact he was wearing a Prada suit which had lost its buttons and a pair of the General's old gumboots. TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
Spring came to the Bad Lands in fits and numerous false starts, first the "chinook," uncovering the butte-tops between dawn and dusk, then the rushing of many waters, the flooding of low bottom-lands, the agony of a world of gumbo, and, after a dozen boreal setbacks, the awakening of green things and the return of a temperature fit for human beings to live in. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
Sixty dollars was spent between the four of us for tons of friend seafood, gumbo and Po Boys.
The gumbo was a bit spicier than he was used to eating.
Back in style are New England boiled dinners, Kentucky burgoos, Florida conch seviche, New Orleans gumbo - and soups, chowders, breads and pies of every stripe and spice.
Without a word, they trudge down the gravel path towards the water's edge and rising sun, Georgie in jandals and Caroline in gumboots, their boat on their shoulders.
Add tomato sauce, cooked freekeh, 1 cup vegetable broth, bell pepper, tomatoes, and the seasonings (paprika, coriander, chipotle chili pepper, gumbo file).
The town's main drag is a hodgepodge of candle merchants, T-shirt vendors, jewelry makers, and crayfish stands, with the sweet sounds of guitar and washboard zydeco blending with the spicy aromas of gumbo and BBQ.
I stopped by the trunk of a gumbo-limbo and pointed to the smooth bark, which was scarred with scratches. BLOWN AWAY!
There had been pilfering of a rather more than casual order: shovels, wheelbarrows and gumboots from the building site. PASSION IN THE PEAK
And after a couple of spoonfuls of her mother's now-legendary spicy chicken gumbo, our conversation takes - perhaps naturally - a soupy twist.
Listen to the doctor," Pearl commanded sternly, "or he'll raise a gumboil on ye. Sowing Seeds in Danny
Filé has since become a signature flavor in Cajun cooking, adding authentic Louisiana character to mouth-watering gumbos and your own favorite dishes.
Bolivians in golden cowboy boots, a South African woman in miners' gumboots, and six dignified Lebanese men holding hands all stomped merrily.
And Robinson's rendition of chicken gumbo - a simple Carolina low-country stew of okra and tomato with tender chicken shreds - has real personality.
The offerings here are legendary — soft-shell crab po-boys, andouille sausage gumbo, crawfish bread and jambalaya are among the stars — and this year only a small handful of newcomers cracked the lineup, including shrimp and grits, and a Japanese chicken/rice dish called don buri. In New Orleans, jazz fans get their groove on despite rain
She was absorbed by the touch pool and especially the gumboot chiton (which resembles a fleshy marine pillbug). Julie Packard: An Ocean of Inspiration
Listen to the doctor," Pearl commanded sternly, "or he 'll raise a gumboil on ye. Sowing Seeds in Danny
Almost without exception, people were less than impressed by the way the ‘upgrade’ turned their channel-changing experience into something akin to wading through deep mud in gumboots.
Make a paste with the gumbo file and 1 tablespoon water and add to pot.
They are very effective in mouth ulcers, gumboils and in pyorrohea.
The show features a blend of dance traditions, including Irish step dancing, African gumboot, English sword dancing and Appalachian clog dancing, all accompanied by a fiddler. NJ.com: Parental Guidance
That was just one course of the party fare that included Virginia ham, cheese biscuits, seafood gumbo, salmon, a wealth of side dishes and an array of sophisticated Mexican food.
If you're feeling like a raw prawn in some cosmic seafood gumbo, what to do?
Because of risk of blood poisoning, consult your doctor if there is no improvement in 12 hours if a gumboil bursts, or if abscess seems to be enlarging rapidly; antibiotics may be prescribed to prevent infection spreading.
Goober, gumbo and tote are West African borrowings first used in America by slaves.
This Aberdonian favourite specialises in seafood recipes from around the world - gumbos, chowders, fishcakes, the works - using every imaginable fresh Scottish seafood, including halibut, sole, wolf fish, turbot, lobster and crab.
A drink made by infusion of the bark in hot water is thought to have a tonic effect on the liver when it is afflicted by cold, and rinsing the mouth with this liquid is thought to heal gumboils, strengthen the gums, and ease toothache.
I realised that I should not have worn tramping boots and left my gumboots in the cabin.
First released in 1971, it's a glorious gumbo of big music, full of inspired playing by a band that had been on the road for the best part of half a century.
Her sister could not eat the tough "gumboots" and her only nourishment was obtained from bread and black coffee. Where the Sun Swings North
Dulcie Lewis, an expert in old English folk cures, says: ‘Oil of cloves has always been applied to the gums for toothache or gumboils.’
This Aberdonian favourite specialises in seafood recipes from around the world - gumbos, chowders, fishcakes, the works - using every imaginable fresh Scottish seafood, including halibut, sole, wolf fish, turbot, lobster and crab.
Several cayes have stands of littoral forest with ziricote Cordia sebestena, teabox Myrica cerifera, gumbo limbo Bursera simaruba and coco plum Chrysobalanus icaco. Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, Belize
All that was left was the letterbox and a pair of rubber gumboots.
From high in the gumbo-limbo a cardinal chirped, and a mile away out on the sound a fast boat cruised past. BLACKWATER SOUND
A high pressure front carries dark clouds, and we risk becoming mired in gumbo if the weather doesn't hold up.
Amanda would ride with everybody else and I would follow on foot, in a sopping-wet parka and gumboots, counting the minutes until we could go inside the big old manor house and have tea and chocolate digestives by the fire. The English American
I get these gumboils if I eat any amount of wheat at all.
The bark, rubbed up in rice-water mixed with cumin-seed, is a cure for gumboils and toothache.
They came to get their passports stamped, for the entertainment, to see a sheep being shorn, throw a gumboot or three, place a bet on the Whanga Cup, brave a bath full of eels, and sample the local fare.
Keep sweaters and gumboots in reserve in the boot of the car. Times, Sunday Times
The crewman with the bat said, "Is this little gumboil telling the truth, mister? The Martian Way
On a Saturday morning he leads them on an expedition to the lower reaches of the Heathcote River where they put on their gumboots and wade through the mud picking up metal and plastic and filling skips with the rubbish.
She follows in the gumboots of Eleanor Roosevelt who dug for victory during World War Two. Barack Obama
People working in the shed could not feel the voltage because they usually wore rubber gumboots.
Paul began his career as a six-year-old, creating a horse costume with his pyjamas and a pair of gumboots.
Samba and tamale, signifyin and fufu, hora and matzoh ball, the gumbo of American culture is lush and tantalizing.
To serve, spoon some gumbo into a soup bowl and top with some andouille sausage, rice, and scallions.
Any contact from back on the clean green shores of surf, sheep, and gumboots is most welcome, even if it's just to say gidday.
As it happens, I have a passion for Rameau ... and I also know how to do a gumboot dance! Pillow fight at the Proms
The bulb on the end of this cautery (brass tag number 267: 19) was heated and applied to tissue to treat a variety of dental ills, including tooth decay and gumboils.
‘Toothache,’ growled Topsy, in reply, ‘not gumboil;’ the remedy suggested by Mrs Pulchop being for the latter of these ills. Madame Midas
After lunch, we abandon our canoes and slog through knee-high water to Panther Mound, a raised piece of land, or hammock, thick with gumbo-limbo trees, loblollies, and strangler figs.
Mark the grace with which he vaults nimbly into the driver's seat beside the bedizened trot in the feathered bonnet-his aunt, doubtless-and with an expert chuck on the reins sets the team in motion and bogs the whole contraption axeldeep in the gumbo. Isabelle
(X stands for numbers they change each time) - in the cupboard still there a coat in the middle right and a gumboot far right get these Archive 2007-11-01
Indeed, Elmer was raised on what old-timers down home still call the Island, a 2,000-acre tract of low-lying sand and black gumbo that the Mississippi periodically reclaimed.
Themes included pantsula and gumboot dancing and local jazz, all touchstones of South African music. Nelson Mandela attends World Cup closing ceremony
I had heard rumor of the gumboot dance and had nearly seen one at the road show (Suz will elaborate soon) but I was excited to see it first hand. Boot slappin’ good times! « Peace Corps South Africa
Ozomatli musical fusions and cross-cultural unions create a gumbo of styles that include dub, samba, salsa and hip-hop.
Examples of Cajun food include crawfish bisque and andouille (ie, spicy sausage) gumbo.
Yesterday I looked out of the window and saw four people wearing white plastic raincoats, gumboots, shower caps and surgical masks go into a house across the road.
But I did laugh very merrily when the reception manager made his way around the courtyard diners, rigged up in full Father Christmas gear and gumboots five sizes too big.
It was much smoother for us this time - there were no doctors in white plastic aprons and white rubber gumboots, there were no suction cups and no forceps and no blood splatters.
Giving the workers knee-high rubber boots, known as gumboots, proved a cheap alternative for the white mine owners than draining the water. CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2001
Mouth ulcers (traditionally called gumboils) are not well understood, but are associated with Herpes Simplex.
In the space of an hour, they've managed to shoehorn in a little bit of everything; a genre-defying gumbo that should sound disparate, stupid and plain wrong.
We wore the standard Kiwi fare of jeans, bush shirts, swannies, and gumboots.
My mother's seafood gumbo is a good example of the way that this book works.
I had noticed that gumboots were impermeable to water from the outside, and deduced that they must also be impermeable from the inside.
Dad and I helped Sharkey out of the wagon, then tied Jewel to the old gumbo-limbo tree. BLOWN AWAY!
To serve, spoon some gumbo into a soup bowl and top with some andouille sausage, rice, and scallions.
With the tracks largely bereft of melody or theme, Villalobos dives ever more deeply into percussive gumbo and leaves accessible hooks behind.
Call it gumbo, bamya, lady's fingers, bhindi, quingombo or a half-dozen other names, okra is an annual vegetable usually thought of as a Southern plant.
Two of my favourite foods are moist, juicy and succulent deep-fried turkey and spicy gumbo.
I've only used okra in gumbo so now I can be a groundbreaker with my local Toronto foodie pals. Spicy pickled okra | Homesick Texan
We come prepared, with gumboots and brollies. Times, Sunday Times
"It's a sin to eat gumbo without filé."
Mr. Flannery's mouth next week, I will open another keg of hard words and trace this gumboil theory to a successful termination, if I have to use up the whole ceiling of the patient's mouth. Remarks
Being a mirthful mundivagant of sorts, I decided it was high time to don my gallant gumboots, garish gunnysack, and goose-down garb to take a gander at some far-flung places in need of my presence.
But to us dissidents that gumboil was a symbol of his apartness from the pack.
Like the chowders of New England, or gumbos of Louisiana, shellfish is key.
I've only used okra in gumbo so now I can be a groundbreaker with my local Toronto foodie pals. Spicy pickled okra | Homesick Texan
However, golfs don't do well in gumbo, neither do skeets. Golfing With A Shotgun
Someone washing their car at home, on the other hand, uses 95 litres of fresh water (although you may think your gumboots alone can hold more than that).
I know one thing, sweetheart, we'll always have three staples: Smitty's seafood gumbo, red beans and rice and fried chicken.
Shoeblack-boys tumbled over each other for the privilege of blacking his honour's boots; nosegay-women and flying fruiterers plied Mr. Gumbo with their wares; piemen, pads, tramps, strollers of every variety, hung round the battle-ground. The Virginians
A huge limb broke off from the gumbo-limbo tree and fell in our path. BLOWN AWAY!
A key ingredient in gumbo, okra is originally an African vegetable.
Remember when four-wheel drives were driven by people who had more than one coloured swannie and had different gumboots for every day of the week?
It is one of my favorite flowers which can be found growing in the barren, clay soil that we call gumbo -- super-slippery when wet, hard and cracked when dry. Wildflowers in Winter -- the Gumbo Lily
Likewise filé powder made from the dried leaves of the sassafras tree would be added during the final stages of cooking to give the gumbo a ‘stringy’ texture.
Gleeson followed the others in, pausing in the doorway to kick off the gumboots he was wearing. THE OTHER DEVIL'S NAME
The purchasing manager and safety committee had also been instructed to procure gumboots, security boots and raincoats by July 23.
We drove as far as Taihape, and stopped there to get some kai and check out the gumboot.
So I ordered some gumbo to take home as I watched a zydeco band set up beneath a long painted mural that dominated the boxy space.
BURWASH The pleasureable cool sloosh of puddle water over the toes of your gumboots. The Meaning of Liff
Within these pages you'll find recipes for cold borscht, Kung Pao chicken, Maryland crab cakes, chicken and sausage gumbo, deviled eggs, and tuna-noodle casserole.
All it is is a gumbo of different musical styles that I like and mixed up and thrown together.
Using the musical traditions of Quebec as their starting point, they bolt on jazz, Cajun and even Latin influences to create an infectious gumbo of sounds and rhythms.
But I did laugh very merrily when the reception manager made his way around the courtyard diners, rigged up in full Father Christmas gear and gumboots five sizes too big.
Sometimes in summer, she wore gumboots for protection; more commonly, her footwear was a pair of woollen socks, or simply the tough skin of her brown bare feet.
These were used for many purposes in dentistry: to stop excessive bleeding, for early root canal treatment, for gumboils, and for toothache.
Jewel was tied up with a thick rope to a gumbo-limbo tree, while Rudy was checking out the landscape, sniffing and smelling every bush. BLOWN AWAY!
Some link it to a form of African "gumboot" dancing, which involves performers rhythmically slapping and stamping their feet. Las Vegas News - LasVegasNOW.com
The dirt roads leading northwest from Medora were at times a slippery gumbo, but I pressed on, through darkness, until I came to an absurdly slick hill and began fishtailing down, toward a cluster of juniper bushes.
It is combined with different meats, gumbos, greens, and sauces, many still prepared and eaten according to the old traditions, although, unlike in Sierra Leone, pork or bacon is a frequent addition.
Gumbo - half soup and half stew - is based on a roux and innumerable combinations of fish, meat and vegetables.
They show teeth which in size and form are exactly the same as those of a thousand generations afterwards -- and suffering from gumboil too! The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
For a place so famous for its roads, Chaco is connected to the modern world tenuously at best: The only access is over washboard dirt roads that can turn to gumbo after a storm.
I had noticed that gumboots were impermeable to water from the outside, and deduced that they must also be impermeable from the inside.
Sometimes the infection spreads into the bone through the root tips and forms a gumboil [periapical infection].
Whether the black slaves brought to America the okra or found it already existing on the continent is uncertain, but the term gumbo is undoubtedly of African origin, as also is the term mbenda (peanuts or ground-nuts), corrupted into pindar in some of the Southern States. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Within these pages you'll find recipes for cold borscht, Kung Pao chicken, Maryland crab cakes, chicken and sausage gumbo, deviled eggs, and tuna-noodle casserole.
Pull on a pair of gumboots, grab a packed lunch, sunhat, sunscreen, umbrella, thermos of coffee… and head off up the farm track to the little weather beaten stands perched precariously on the river's bank.
George, my dear old school-chum, with the V.C., and his wife tells me of it as casually as if it had been a gumboil! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 19, 1917
But he responded to the idea of a walk in the water meadows—a favourite walk of his, though he made a face when I put my gumboots on before starting. Henry’s Demons
The boys and girls would clamber all over it, poking sticks at it and hanging wet gumboots on its ears but it didn't mind in the least.
The "gumboots" were also boiled, and found to be as rubbery as the name implied. Where the Sun Swings North
I feel that the very mention of the word gumboot, whenever it occurs, is lending a smile to certain of my readers and, perchance, a frown to others. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Duck and andouille sausage gumbo was another dish that evolved out of the early Creole and Cajun kitchens of Louisiana.
If the abscess is not treated, the infection may make a channel from the tooth to the surface of the gum, and a painful swelling known as a gumboil may form.
An abscess may form (‘gumboil’), sometimes with facial swelling, fever, and illness.
I love the food, especially Gumbo, but roux is hard to make - at least for me. Gumbo Tales | Homesick Texan
Special occasions call for a gumbo and vegetable soup with crab or salted meat (calalou).
Some will return this year, not to perform but to check out the second iteration, which promises to be equally broad in scope, with performances of Spanish flamenco, South African gumboot, zapateo criollo, step dancing, and Samoan sasa - a call-and-response from that involves a lot of chanting and slapping the floor. East Bay Express
It's Louisiana food, so lots of crawfish and gumbo in low lighting with lots of charming skillets and chalkboards. Beth Spotswood: Friend, Movie, Dinner: The Trip and The Boxing Room
It's tracks like ‘Food For Thot’, which show his James Brown-esque funk gumbo perfectly.
The Louisiana they remember with pride hasn't changed altogether - there's gumbo on the stove, zydeco on the radio, and families with traditional values.
Violet leaves were used for swellings, and a brew of camomile flowers was useful in cases of sleeplessness-and gumboils!
Mercurius colds have a very sore throat and thick yellow discharges that leave nose, eyes and even ears raw and may trigger Mercurius typical mouth problems like gumboils, a metallic taste and very, very bad breath.
The hearty soup known as gumbo is a hybrid created by southern Louisiana's various population groups.
This might only indicate that Mr. Flannery had kept his mouth open too much during the summer, and sunburned the roof of his mouth, were it not that I also discovered traces of gumboil microbes of the squamous variety. Remarks
They may need gumboots or sturdy footwear for the 15-minute walk from the carpark to the memorial site, Ms Cowin said.
Every Monday she teaches them juggling, acrobatics, trampolining, tumbling, trapeze work, stilt-walking and gumboot dancing.
Madame tried both the chicken and fish gumbos and remarked on the totally different tastes that the Cajun cuisine could produce in them.
Like I say, I was hangin’ around a lot of churches, barrelhouses, speakeasys, I just mix my ideas up and call it a gumbo.
Old women shuffling along bent almost beyond 90 degrees in their gumboots and floral aprons with bundles of clothes tied over there backs.
Kayak Bill had often described what he called a "gumboot," remarking that the name was bestowed locally because of the toughness of this aquatic animal when cooked. Where the Sun Swings North
gumboots," making a desultory search for pay-sand, which no one had seen for weeks. Where the Sun Swings North
After donning kilos of thermal underwear, Goretex and gumboots, all topped off by mandatory red life-jackets, we pile into the Zodiacs for our first landfall.
The shrimp and crab cakes and seafood gumbo, among many other possibilities, were tasty, but lines to get a look at the grub were plenty long.
I'd settled Ava at my place and returned to meet Harry for brainstorming and a bowl of gumbo. THE HUNDREDTH MAN
I wish you would ask Mr. Flannery's immediate relatives, if you can do so without arousing alarm in the breast of the patient, if there has ever been a marked predisposition on the part of his ancestors to tubercular gumboil. Remarks
As for me, I had to have the New Orleans gumbo with shrimp, chicken and okra - delicious and full of flavors.

How To Use Gumbo In A Sentence

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