001[Music] that's good okay hi everybody we have some different digs today we are at the senior center in Ashland a very hopping place literally they just finished a ex exercise class but we're celebrating Migra today Migra I'm French so that means Fat Tuesday in English and for MRA we decided to make some jambalaya I've never made it before so you and I will be doing this together let's see how it goes it's um basically andoy sausage and chicken and shrimp of course with a lot of rice so it sounds it sounds pretty big it just you know we'll just throw it all together and see how it tastes we have a lot of people here that are dying to taste it so let's get started I'm going to first start with my um I got
002a sausage take the sausage and brown the sausage first so you'll have to come over to the stove I'm not I I don't usually have this big a pot of course but um this is what they have and we'll uh do this together here's my my friend Beth here Beth is um me member of the senior Club here yeah yes we're we're actually all seniors you know I know it's hard to believe we look like we're in high school right sure we do yeah glad we're not hanging since then all right so it adds we need to add a little oil here to the pan I'm using canola oil because it's most healthy but you can use vegetable oil olive oil whatever you have so about three tablespoons just eyeball that I'll wait till it
003starts to get hot and then I'll put in the uh sausage and what we're looking for is Browning on both sides actually I have andou sausage here which is what the recipe calls for but um I love keilbasa keilbasa would be good in this recipe to or any sausage I used yeah I I like kilb basa too but the recipe calls for andoy and they happen to have it at the supermarket so we went ahead and got it all right so let's drop this in now I don't I I I don't normally cook for this many people but today we're cooking for about 25 to 30 people so we're going to let that crank up a little bit let it sit and get brown all right so we'll let it sit for a few minutes
004so it gets Brown on all sides now because I've never made this before I do have a recipe and I'm going to check on it I mean I've pretty much made it in my head already which is a good idea I don't think you can really mess this up and I've got chicken broth going here because that's going to help cook the rice when we add the rice to it but that's not for a while yet okay all right we're getting nice and brown all right we'll let it sit for a few more minutes and then what it calls for is we'll take the sausage out we still have the oil and the grease from the sausage which is going to cook the vegetables oh yeah yeah slaughtered spoon yes I do need that but
005I don't think we're done yet getting nice and brown too bad you can't smell this cuz it smells pretty good makes you hungry doesn't it oh it does you're going to have to go home and make this tonight um I would go home and make this except Dan my husband he doesn't like it he doesn't like sausages I make fun of him on every show because he's so fuzzy I'll tell you he's wonderful and he's very healthy so there's something to be said for that maybe it's cuz he's got such a good wife [Music] and Beth we have um a bowl full of vegetables behind like peppers onions celery that's the base oh these look really good look at that yum and if you don't like sausage we've got chicken you don't like chicken we've
006got shrimp you got to find to find something you like it's nice to look forward to the luncheons that they have here at the senior center you know if you're at home and you got nothing to do come on up here you want to play some cribbage there's guys here that will play cribbage and uh they'll teach you sewing classes and painting classes and computer classes lunches are our Mondays you do have to sign up a week before and uhuh and we publish the menus in our in the in in the in the newsletter yeah so you know all right so here's we have what we have here I chopped up Celery green pepper red pepper and I put lots of time it called for lots of fresh time so that goes in there Sizzle
007Sizzle gream pepper celery and H red pepper and the thyme but my onions were chopped so fine I waited a few minutes before we add those but of course you have to add onions to it and don't tell Danny he doesn't like onions but he has no clue that everything he eats has onions in it don't tell him okay so we'll wait till this Cooks down a little bit and I will add some of the seasoning now it calls for Cajun seasoning but I couldn't seem to find any at the um Supermarket so I'm turn turn that up a little bit that's good okay so um I have Emerald Emerald legasi he's got essent essence of emerald allp purpose got all kinds of good stuff in there you know garlic let's see garlic spices black
008pepper salt good stuff all kinds of spices anyway forgive me my glasses I you know the the writing is very small but trust me there's a lot of good stuff in there so I'm adding a couple tablespoons of that because I wouldn't normally add this much at home if I was only cooking for a few people but we're cooking for a lot of people here gosh that smells good oh my goodness you know when you go to Fenway pck and they and they sell those big hot dog rolls those sub rolls and they put sausage on it with onions and peppers that's what this smells like and if it's Migra time then opening day can't be far behind I think we'll have a great Red Sox team this year what do you think be okay
009let's see what's next enough we'll we'll taste it afterwards I I don't want to add too many spices and too much salt you can we have salt on the table I'm a salt eater but um go ahead best there she goes yeah let me scrape the pan every little bit actually we can put a little water in there here right here where's my spoon this is uh chicken broth there every last bit okay all right that will yeah let's we're just going to heat that up for a few minutes and then we're going to add the chicken broth and the rice yeah we're going to put in the sausage and any juices and the chicken this is uh you can you can chop up chicken thighs if you want but I thought let's cheat a
010little bit because I'm the Casual Gourmet you know and uh we bought two rotisserie chickens all right I'm going to start adding this and we can mix it up and then we're going to put in the rice and then say a prayer the recipe calls for one and2 cups of rice so how well this is double and a half so there's four cups of rice there four cups rice yep then way if there's any leftovers we send them down to the wacka Studio see all right why don't you Stir It Up while we do that it looks pretty good Beth doesn't it really does you're not surprised are you no okay there's a lot of liquid in there so because we have to cook the rice in there and that's going to take maybe 20
011minutes so we'll have to go in the other room and uh sing and dance and tell jokes while we're waiting for the rice to cook there's four cups in there I already measured it [Music] and it says to cover it will cover it so that the liquid doesn't um evaporate we want it to be absorbed by the rice right okay let me get the cover it's right there okay all right last but not least jumalia has shrimp so we have and do we sausage we have chicken and I just added the shrimp and there again I cheated I bought shrimp that's already cooked and deined and peeled and everything and but you need to heat it up a little bit so I'm just throwing it in the mix and it'll heat up and we are
012ready to go yay there we are [Music] that's [Music] good welcome to the senior center here in ashlands and this is June she's our new cook who's helping us out uh bringing seniors together um every Monday and once a month with June we do something special on that once a month today although today is Tuesday yeah right we'll pick a day but it's it's MRA and so we decided to do something very MRA uh jumbalaya and actually it's the first time I've ever cooked it and I think came out pretty good what do you think it came out excellent yes yes yes yes there'll be a quarter under your plate for every compliment I get and they looked she she picked it up to look that was great yeah well anyway you should come down
013sometime and enjoy I I'm Amazed by the activity going on here the C battery the friendships it's it's wonderful not only that it's a beautiful place it's the the Ambiance is wonderful so I'm I'm having a ball even though I'm cooking in the kitchen which is something I love to do but um so I'll be back thank you Candace for are you next month Pasta Prima next month April 23rd pasta Prim Vera spring vegetables like asparagus spring peas um of course I can't put any of that in because Dan doesn't like that stuff so I'm glad I'm cooking here and can music we that'll be here thank you thank you Candace with thank you [Music]