Sizzle!

It's gonna be a hot and spicy night in the ballroom on March 1st with the Red Stick Ramblers!

Talk about spicy -- check out Linzay Young’s world famous recipe for Sauce Piquant. It’ll knock your socks off…Talk about a REAL triple threat--Voice, violin, and vittles!

Linzay Young’s “Turtle Sauce Piquante”
(Spicy Gravy)
feeds 6-8 depending on how hungry they are


Note: This dish is prepared best in a #8 or #10 cast iron pot or dutch oven. Cooking it in any other vessel may result in an inferior dining experience.

INGREDIENTS:
5-6 lbs Cleaned turtle meat*, Cut into 2 inch cubes
2 or 3 large yellow or white onions, chopped
2 green bell-peppers, 2 red/orange bell-peppers, chopped
half a head of garlic, minced
2 - 3 habanero chiles, seeded and minced
2 8oz. Cans of diced tomatoes with green chiles
1 bunch of green onions, 1 bunch of Italian parsley (chopped fine)
olive oil
salt, black pepper, ground cayenne pepper
white rice
1 six pack of cold beer

PREPARATION:
Season meat with salt black pepper and cayenne pepper and set aside
Coat bottom of pot with a few tablespoons olive oil. Sauté onions, peppers, over high heat, stirring frequently, until they are mostly clear and browning around edges. When the vegetables start to stick, pour some beer in and stir to deglaze. Repeat if they stick again before they are
sufficiently wilted. Remove vegetables and set aside. Drink remainder of beer and have another.

Add a few more tablespoons of oil to the pot and brown meat well on high heat When the meat is browned, add cooked vegetables and tomatoes. Stir pot, reduce heat to medium, and cover pot.

Have another beer.

Check often and add water as needed and reduce heat after meat starts to become tender.

Cook rice 20 minutes before serving.
At this time, add green onions and most of the parsley
And stir into gravy while rice is cooking.
Serve over rice.
Good side dishes are corn, field peas, black-eyes, greens.
Wash down with cold beer.

* – Chicken or pork may be substituted

So, get your dancing shoes on and come out for some really fast lindy or balboa, some slow blues, some Charleston, and swing of course.