Paleo Creole Gumbo

The Best Gumbo I Ever Had

Are you ready to eat? I thought so.

INGREDIENTS

2 pounds tail-on shrimp

3 slices bacon

4 onions, fine-chopped in food processor

4 cloves garlic, fine-chopped, but don’t do them same time as onion

2 bay leaves

6 plump Padron peppers, fine-diced (scoop out the seeds, lazy version is fine). This is my California brainstorm, and it was SO GOOD. Otherwise, green bell peppers are fine.

1 Teaspoon fresh or dried thyme

1/2 Teaspoon Coconut Sugar (or use regular sugar, you don’t have to be paleo for me!)

2 Tablespoons of salt

Lots of black pepper

2 pounds fresh young okra, not fuzzy yet (I bet you could use frozen)

2 Tablespoons olive or avocado oil

1 ham bone or ham shank, (Definitely pork with a bone it it. Just size of a small hand is fine).

6 chicken wings

1 pound boneless veal, cut into 1 inch cubes. (You can get butchers to cut up veal chops for you like this, and keep bones for your doggie or broth).

Couple splashes of vermouth

1 bunch of Italian parsley, finely-chopped

Large can of your favorite Italian…