Making roux on the stovetop takes at least 45 minutes of continuous cooking and stirring, and my arm gets tired. Every year, I make turkey gumbo with my leftover Thanksgiving bird, and every year I ...

Although I'm a Jersey girl, I do have a good gumbo recipe. The trick to this is making the roux, which is the thickening agent. In this recipe, the roux is made with flour and oil, instead of flour ...

Adding cooked chicken to the gumbo, which was made in a microwave oven. (Photo by David Grunfeld / Nola.com / The Times-Picayune) The first person I ever saw make a roux was a guy who grew up in ...

A basic recipe may never grow old, but the method of cooking it might. For example, black iron kettles have been used for cooking roux for hundreds of years. A microwave oven updates roux-making to ...

"I like to make myself soup for lunch, sometimes dinner. Soup and a piece of good bread and butter. That's all I need." Roux has come out with another cookbook (his 17th!), The Essence of French ...