Playing around with a new cooker today at work, more to come...

gumbo?

Carne guisada - or something close to it. Got a little soupy on me. Nothin a little spanish rice, homemade pintos and guacamole won't fix.

Recipe

2 - 10# briskets, trimmed and cut to 1" cubes
10 red bell peppers chopped - red because they were the best looking ones on sale at Sprouts this morning.
3 jalapenos chopped
6 medium to large onions chopped
2 cups or so diced hatch chiles
3 14oz can diced tomatoes
Salt to taste

Browned the meat in batches and removed. Added some flour to the pot, plus handful of hot chile powder, tablespoon cumin, little garlic powder and made a good chile gravy. Dumped the veggies in and cooked until soft. Added maybe 2-3 gallons of beef bullion plus tomatoes and has been simmering for about 2 hours. Will get out what I need for lunch then let the rest cook down, then freeze it in pans so we can reheat it later. Should get an easy 3 meals out of this. Cooked 4# of pintos also on the stove and a skillet of mescan rice.

Heat and flavor seems to be about right, should be better next go around after it sits and reheats.


That's a 10 gallon iron pot, guessing maybe 4 gallons of grub is what I came out with.

ah ha ... the jalapenos I thought was okra ... you can always make some extra roux and stir in to thicken

Yea it does, gumbo is coming up pretty soon. I cook a lot at work and various Church functions. 10 gallons is supposed to feed 100 people so going to try a few different things before I attempt a big crowd with it. Only feed 25 or so here usually. I whisked up some extra flour in cold water and stirred it in but basically I got too much juice. Going to put enough liquid in the leftover solids to cover, then the extra stock I'll freeze and save for something else.

Kind of figured out today with a pot this deep and one burner on the bottom you don't want things too thick unless you got time to stand there and keep the bottom stirred.

So far my list of "good chit I can cook fairly cheap for a crowd" with this sucker is:

Guisada
Chili
Gumbo
Jambalaya
Stews
Soups
Etoufee's and Creoles

All over it

Yup

Would

I'd eat it