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Red Leader Roasted Okra & Parsnips

Wedge Antilles is a fascinating character.  He doesn't have any special abilities or status, no tragic family backstory or hero's journey.  He's friends with everybody's favorite space farmer Jedi, survives the Death Star  not once but twice , and as of the writing of this recipe, he's survived all the Star Wars  movies and hasn't been tortured by Darth Vader even once. I think that's pretty cool. Almost as cool as this amazing recipe, which can be a main character or a side personality, depending on what role you need it to play, and it tastes like it's a lot of work, but it's so  easy it's almost embarrassing.  I've made it as a side dish to go with  Badass Biker Chick(pea) Burgers , and I've served them as the main course with a hardboiled egg on the side.  They're healthy, delicious, low-carb, gluten-free, soyfree, vegan, all the words -- but they're super tasty, go make 'em. Now. Red Leader Roasted Okra & Par...

So Beautiful or So What Gumbo

This recipe is lifted pretty much wholesale from John's Foodwishes.com blog , but I've posted it here for two THREE reasons: 1. He doesn't put okra in his gumbo, which is ridiculous (in my opinion), and since it's not in his recipe, I nearly forget it every time; and 2. He doesn't have the instructions written down. Anywhere. You have to watch the video to get the cook-times and order of additions. 3. His ingredients aren't listed in the order you use them. Of all my massive, enormous, RAGING pet-peeves when it comes to recipe-writing, THIS IS PROBABLY THE BIGGEST. I'm sure the whole watch-the-video-every-time thing does wonders for jacking up his hit-counter on YouTube, but it also does wonders for jacking up my cooking, which considering how often I cook this after a full day of work and too many miles of bike-commuting, is not cool, dude. Not cool at all. So here it is, Chef John's chicken and sausage gumbo, which I learned to cook because o...