coogin'widfriens

welcome to the nfl playoff version of meatheads good times! (forever to be referred to in this blog as mgt.) and what playoff game would be complete without food? a bad one. that's what.
so i prolly won't talk about football. more food.
but for you die hard football fans, john mcclane says, get it...die hard,john mcclane?...anywho, john mcclane says look for steelers/eagles in the super bowl. steelers are built for cold weather, which doesn't help much in tampa. look for the eagles in the super bowl by a touchdown. yippee ki-yay.
now that i've been distracted with bad jokes and pig skin, we go on to the food. tomorrow i will prepare gumbo. it will be a 3 hour or so affair that will end in full bellies and dreams of well, dreams. maybe we should listen to some roy orbison while we cook. roy orbison, you know "in dreams," "dream baby?" great music. you should check it out. distracted again. it is the first installment in 2009 of saturday lunch at manglers. or s.l.a.m. as we call it. (just made that up) just a reason to cook and hang with friends. and maybe drink a frosty cold adult beverage. its a great way to start your saturday.
we decided to go with the Alton Brown (food royalty) recipe for gumbo! we get to make a roux, shrimp stock which involves boiling shrimp heads and tails and also grill some andouille sausage. gots to love the pork. throw in some cayenne pepper, onions, peppers, celery, okra and bay leaves because all good meals involve bay leaves and that's some mgt good eats. plus we get to speak cajun, which is easier than you think. put no emphasis on any hard consonant, blend all words into one long one, then put a drunk french redneck sound to it and you may as well have been raised way down in louisiana close to new orleans, back up in the woods among the evergreens.
its just how the production and management staff here at mgt get down on the weekend. i would like to invite all loyal fans to join us one saturday. you won't regret it. unless i have a mental lapse and let stephen cook. punch me if i do that.
seriously. punch me. just not in the face. i'm kinda pretty.