Seafood Gumbo Recipe

Ingredients

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• 2/3 cup oil or bacon drippings (I use 1/2 cup bacon drippings and the rest vegetable oil) shopping list
• 1 cup flour shopping list
• 3 large onions, chopped shopping list
• 3 ribs celery, chopped shopping list
• 6 cloves garlic, minced shopping list
• 2 quarts water shopping list
• 3 bay leaves shopping list
• Tabasco, Emeril's hot pepper sauce, or habanero hot sauce to taste shopping list
• salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste shopping list
• worcestershire sauce to taste, I use several Tablespoons shopping list
• 2 (8 ounce) cans tomato sauce shopping list
• (6) pre-cooked dungeness crabs, cleaned and shucked, keeping the crab claws to be added to gumbo shopping list
• 1 bunch green onions, chopped (I omit this ingredient sometimes) shopping list
• 1/3 cup chopped parsley shopping list
• 3 pounds raw prawns, medium size and cut in-half or a smaller size left whole (peeled and deveined) shopping list
• 1 pound small scallops shopping list
• 1 pound firm, boneless fish fillet (I use cod or halibut), cubed into bite-size pieces shopping list
• **clams and mussels (in shells) can be tossed in but if the gumbo gets reheated, both of these will toughen in texture shopping list