PheNOMenal Meals Made with CSA Foods: Laissez le bon temp rouler!!!!

Tuesday was Fat Tuesday!!! This time last year I was in New Orleans celebrating Mardi Gras with my brother and some of our closest peeps. Traveling to places like New Orleans during Mardi Gras or Brazil during Carnival really makes you understand the culture and atmosphere that surrounds those holidays (if you’re traveling right (that’s another topic for a whole other day)). When James and Parker cooked for us in New Orleans, we ate like kings and queens (Andrew, you’re in the queen category). When we went out to eat, it wasn’t as good (we’re poor people). We had Boudin, won a king cake, and so many other delicious meats and meals.

This Mardi Gras Jordan and I were way too broke to head back down to New Orleans to defend our Mardi Gras Frisbee tournament championship title and drink copious amounts of alcohol for three days. We stayed in Greenville, drank wine and beer, and played Headbanz with the rest of the members of the Tar River Compound (Garrett, Kristy, Whit, Jenelle, Nick, Janna, and Erin).

This little get together and celebration was somewhat of a last minute decision. Since we had some pork sausage in the refrigerator that we had no idea what to do with, I figured we’d make a makeshift (wordmaster word) jambalaya in the crockpot. Here’s how that went down:

4 pork sausages
1lb chicken breast
green bell pepper
1 large onion
2 ribs celery
1 can chicken broth
1 28oz can of diced tomatoes
2 teaspoons Cajun seasoning
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
2 teaspoons dried oregano
1 tsb dried pasley
2 cups cooked rice

Step 1: Cut everything into little bite size pieces and throw that junk into a crock pot (except the rice. Don’t cook the rice yet)

Step 2: Set the crock pot for whenever you’re going to come home to eat the food

Step 3: Your peeps are arriving so go ahead and make the rice. This is my little twist which I enjoyed a lot! If your jambalaya is looking really watered down in the crock pot then substitute the water for cooking the rice with the juices from the jambalaya. You can mix half water/ half jambalaya juice but I had a lot of juices so I just cooked my rice completely with jambalaya juice.

Step 4: Throw the rice in the crock pot, stir it up, serve yourself, and then tell everyone it’s ready.

Serve and enjoy!