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You were very close Bill Van....it's roux. Pronounced like your spelling (roo). Baldy used to tell a cajun joke regarding the "X" in cajun words, but I can't remember it. It was something along the lines of another joke where a cajun went to New York City, and while ordering a hamburger, he didn't want them to think he was a cajun so he told them to "cut the rice". Told by Justin Wilson, that is a very funny joke. The Gumbo is very definitely on the list, and will come up later. This cold weather snap caused Debbie to make chili, and that is why I took the opportunity. As I mentioned previously, it was Gertie Chance (Jack's wife) that made the first gumbo we ever tasted. It was right there at Gertie's stove that Baldy learned how to make roux. Joe Rome's Dad Roland was also an expert on making roux. He grew up eating roux based dishes.
The little hot peppers you mention are called chilipequins and grow in south texas. They are very hot indeed. Wild turkeys eat them with no ill effects, and I've heard you could detect the flavor in a turkey that fed on them on a regular basis. We called them, as most South Texans do chilipetin's (cheele-peteens)
Upside down runabouts? I really don't remember Ron. It might be that Baldy thought we could keep the bottom straighter by carrying them that way. As far as a book goes, it might be fun to try it one day. A long time ago Debbie told me I should write down all the stories I told the kids as they were growing up. When BRF came along and I started telling some stories, it got more involved when I found my old D Konig. An Amazing Story evolved as I went along, and that gave me the idea to put down these memories of my Dad, how he loved to entertain his boat racing friends, and all the times we had. Recently my brother Mark showed me how to cut and paste from Word Perfect, and he even copy and pasted stuff from BRF and e mailed it to me. I was frustrated at having lost a bunch of stuff I wrote and punched the wrong key when Debbie hollered for help. Mark, and others here, told me how to do that, but I wasn't sure. Now that I will play around with it, I might give it a try. For a long time I've wanted to be able to save "An Amazing Story" and have a hard copy in case some disasterous Chinese worm ate the guts out of BRF, so maybe I'll play around with that a little while and learn something.
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