Creole Seafood Gumbo

Ingredients

• 14 c butter
• 2 Tbsp flour
• 2 c liquid water and a little juice from seafood
• 2 c cut okra
• 2 c peeled and cubed tomatoes
• 1 large onion chopped
• 1 small green pepper chopped
• 1 tsp Tabasco pepper sauce
• 18 tsp thyme
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 c shrimp crab meat oysters or a combination
• 3 c hot cooked rice

Directions

1. Melt butter in a saucepan blend in flour and cook over low heat stirring constantly until dark brown
2. Add liquid okra tomatoes onion pepper Tabasco sauce optional thyme and bay leaf
3. Bring to a boil
4. Then cover and simmer 30 minutes stirring occasionally
5. Add seafood and cook 10 to 15 minutes longer
6. Remove bay leaf
7. Serve in soup bowls with mound of hot rice in center
8. Serves 6