Gumbo in the new house

Buying a house is stressful. Finally on the other side of it, I cooked a big ol' pot of my Momma's and my Maw-Maw's Cajun gumbo. And a big heaping pile of "the best potato salad you'll ever taste" (Mom). Here's the prep:

Molly Preps Gumbo: Experimental Cookery Stop Motion from Molly O on Vimeo.

I had to stop stopmotioning because I needed to videochat with my Mom while I was making the roux because it's scary and hard. I didn't take any pictures of the finished product because I had some girlfriends over, but believe you me it was delicious.

And I had it again for lunch the next day.

Mommy Lester's Pasta Salad

In Chicago with Busty. Needed to make some pasta salad -- Mommy Lester's signature stuff: tri-color rotini, broccoli, balck olives, cucumbers and Italian dressing -- 'cause we're going to a little get-together BBQ thing. I tried to convince Amanda to put in some garbanzo beans and bell peppers, but she wouldn't budge on the recipe. Not experimental at all! We played some pop culture / anything goes Take Two Scrabble. And we had some beer. Good times. I love life.

6/21/09 Pasta Salad and Take Two Scrabble with Busty, Nate and Jake from Molly O on Vimeo.