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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Creole Sausage and Shrimp Jambalaya with a Side of Newman
This recipe is a perfect example. There's really not much chopping, there's only a couple steps, and it's a very easy recipe to alter and adjust to your tastes. This is a perfect dinner party dish, since once it's simmering, you can enjoy the party, and not have to fuss around in the kitchen.
Speaking of dinner parties, one interesting tidbit regarding jambalaya you can fascinate your guests with has to do with the name. No one really knows the true origins of the term "jambalaya," which means I always repeat the most entertaining version.
This is from the Dictionary of American Food and Drink:
Late one evening a traveling gentleman stopped by a New Orleans inn which had little food remaining from the evening meal. The traveler instructed the cook, "Jean, balayez!" or "Jean, sweep something together!" in the local dialect. The guest pronounced the resulting hodge-podge dish as "Jean balayez."
Hey, it could of happened. Enjoy!
2 tbsp butter
8 oz Andouille sausage, or other spicy smoked sausage, sliced 1/4" thick
2 tbsp paprika
1 tbsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1 bay leaf
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup diced tomato, fresh or canned
1 large green bell pepper, diced
2 ribs celery, sliced 1/4" thick
4 green onions, sliced thin
1 cup brown rice
3 cups chicken broth
1 pound large shrimp, peeled and deveined
68 comments:
Hi, Chef John! This is Chef Lin Chen. I got this website from your wife. Have long time not see/hear from you, i just like to see hi and wish you evrything is well.
- May 22, 2008 at 3:44 PM
That looks good!
Love New Orleans! Its one of America's greatest treasures for culinary and musical experiences. - May 22, 2008 at 4:06 PM
- Chef John said...
Thanks! Great to hear from you!
- May 22, 2008 at 4:21 PM
I promise to watch the video before I comment.
- May 22, 2008 at 5:49 PM
Hey Chef. Thank you for a very enjoyable web site. I've always heard that "creole" was the more sophisticated cuisine, leaning toward French, while "cajun" was the more rustic. Kind of country mouse vs. city mouse. But I think they are used interchangeably now. Nice touch w/ the brown rice, too.
- May 22, 2008 at 7:20 PM
- Chef John said...
- May 22, 2008 at 7:32 PM
WOW! This is happining tonight! But please educate me.....Why leave the tails on?
I'm learning. - May 23, 2008 at 6:09 AM
- kayce. said...
do you watch Top Chef?
if so, check out my recap at:
http://chefthecity.blogspot.com - May 23, 2008 at 8:26 AM
One of my all-time favorites.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Cajun is derived from Acadian, those who descended from early French Canadian settlers, who were banished from Nova Scotia in early 1700's and settled in Southern Louisiana. Creole comes from the French and Spanish settlers together. - May 23, 2008 at 8:53 AM
- Chef John said...
I just like how the tails look, and its nice to pick up the shrimp by the tail and suck out that little piece of meat. The shell makes it extra sweet.
- May 23, 2008 at 9:58 AM
- Ann Marie said...
I was so excited to see you posted a classic New Orleans dish! A hint on the ingredients, if you don't feel like chopping veggies, get the Creole Seasoning Mix in the "cold foods" section of your grocery store. I know they sell it here (New Orleans) but I would hope they'd sell it everywhere. It's basically chopped onions, bell pepper, celery all combined into one handly container. It's a must-have in my fridge and it stays fresh for a good while. Also, invest in some Tony Chachere's if you can. A great spice mix for any dish. If shrimp aren't in season, chicken is great in Jambalaya as well. Overall, I find Jambalaya to be even better the next day.
Come visit us in New Orleans! It's festival season and the smell of crawfish boils, fried seafood, and even Jambalaya (although it's getting a little hot outside for that) are lingering around every corner! - May 23, 2008 at 1:01 PM
- Chef John said...
I so envious! I've never been. The store's here sell carrot, celery onion mixes, but I haven't seen the "trinity"
I would LOVE to come to NO, what kind of accommodations are we talking about?? :) - May 23, 2008 at 1:14 PM
- Ann Marie said...
Oh and the difference between cajun and creole...creole foods tend to have tomato based prducts and cajun foods do not.
Examples of creole: red fish courtbouillon (COO-be-yawn) or (coo-be-YAWN); grits and grillades (gree-odds); crawfish etouffee
Examples of cajun: fried [insert favorite seafood here] poboys, gumbo, boudin (boo-dan) - May 23, 2008 at 1:16 PM
- Ann Marie said...
Oh and the difference between cajun and creole...creole foods tend to have tomato based prducts and cajun foods do not.
Examples of creole: red fish courtbouillon (COO-be-yawn) or (coo-be-YAWN); grits and grillades (gree-odds); crawfish etouffee
Examples of cajun: fried [insert favorite seafood here] poboys, gumbo, boudin (boo-dan) - May 23, 2008 at 1:16 PM
- Ann Marie said...
Wait a second. You're showing people how to make Jambalaya and you've never even been to New Orleans??? tsk tsk tsk.
This really is a great time to visit. Neighborhood festivals pop up every weekend. They are free, full of great music, and restaurants set up booths and serve delicious food (not free of course). It's a great time to sample cuisine from all of your favorite restaurants. Granted, it's getting hot and muggy, but a tasty sno-ball will cool you off.
Ok I'm done trying to sell New Orleans to your viewers. - May 23, 2008 at 1:22 PM
First off, LOVE your videos and so does my wife since she gets to eat everything I try from your videos.
One question.. How come you never put serving size on your recipes? is it for 2, 4, 6?? : )
Scott - May 23, 2008 at 1:58 PM
- Chef John said...
One wife's 4 is another wife's 6.
This makes 4 portions...depending. - May 23, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Thanks John,
I'm cooking this tonight for my wife. She loves the spicy food!! I'll let ya know how it goes over.
Keep the videos coming. You are the first to really keep me coming back for more!
Enjoy the 3 day!
Scott - May 23, 2008 at 5:49 PM
I love the dish and Cajun food. My wife and I are heading to New Orleans in mid July. We are going there for the food. Not to sure what restaurants we're going to yet but, it should be a tasty holiday! - May 24, 2008 at 9:03 PM
it is a crying shame that i've never been to new orleans, because i love both cajun and creole cooking. this jambalaya is making my mouth water.
- May 24, 2008 at 10:55 PM
- test it comm said...
That looks really tasty!
- May 25, 2008 at 8:26 AM
- gromgull said...
Another excellent recipe! Thanks!
Mine is on flickr :) - May 25, 2008 at 12:14 PM
- food makes me happy said...
God I love jambalaya!
- May 25, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Luckily, I'm going to NO next week for an expo. I've never been. Does anyone need anything while I'm there? :)
I'll report back.
Scott - Boston - May 27, 2008 at 4:35 PM
- Unknown said...
Hey chef john, this looks so good but my wife is allergic to shrimp, is there a good alternative rather then leaving it out?
- May 27, 2008 at 7:57 PM
Well. Cooked it for my wife. Everything went great until I added the shrimp before checking if the rice was really 5 minutes out. I cooked the brown rice to the package directions of about 50 minutes. At 45 it looked as if it was going to be done in 5 so in went the shrimp.
After a good 5 I checked the rice and it was not even close to being done. The flavor was great but not the rice. I added more liquid and gave it another 10 minute. Still rice was hard. Not sure what went wrong here. I guess i'll try it again and use a bit more liquid and give it a bit longer to cook. Any thoughts? - May 27, 2008 at 11:21 PM
- Chef John said...
If she decides to stay with you, and you get to try again... Check the rice after 45-50 minutes and if it's getting dry add more stock, no problem adjusting that.
The flame may have been higher, or the lid not tight and some evaporated away. Next time add liquid and keep cooking-don't worry about over cooking the shrimp! Hard rice is worse that over cooked shrimp. Also - to play it really safe, you can even wait until the rice is perfect and then add the shrimp as it only takes a couple minutes and the rice will not over cook that much. - May 27, 2008 at 11:45 PM
- Chef John said...
Scott, can you mail me a po'boy?
- May 27, 2008 at 11:48 PM
- texichan said...
Nice video! I've lived in Houston the majority of my life, so Cajun and Creole foods are in my blood, along with the TexMex, barbecue, chili, steak, Southern fare, etc. :P
I'd say there's a bit more of a difference between Cajun and Creole. Cajun is pretty simple, heavy on rice, beans, seafood. Cajuns are closer to the Texas/Louisiana border in the west. Creole was mostly developed around New Orleans, and it's kind of a mixture (as the name "creole" implies) of several different cuisines, as NO was always an important port city. So, the food is generally a good deal fancier. Lots of people get the two confused, and generalize one or the other to encompass all - but, really, they are different! Sometimes similar, but there are distinctions.
I could go for a fried crawfish poboy now! - May 28, 2008 at 1:35 AM
- Chef John said...
robert, use chicken instead of shrimp
- May 28, 2008 at 3:47 AM
Scott - Boston
Chef, I work for a non-profit company during the day and am a musician at night.
So, "...mail me a po'boy?" Hell, you're talking to one! - May 30, 2008 at 1:51 PM
- Chef John said...
speaking of sandwiches and poor boys, remember the song on the Blues Brother's album about the "wish" sandwiches?
- May 30, 2008 at 3:36 PM
Chef John! I love your videos! Thanks so much for all the new recipes and keep up the great work!
-Kylie :) - June 3, 2008 at 9:00 PM
- Chef John said...
thanks! i will.
- June 3, 2008 at 11:21 PM
- Joe Horn said...
Cool recipe. I just found your blog while looking around for other shrimp recipes. I just recently posted a recipe for Caramel and Ginger Shrimp that I adapted from "The Spended Table" cookbook and posted it on my blog @ http://cookingquest.wordpress.com if you would like to come take a look. I love feedback and other cook's opinions for sure.
Thanks and have a great one!
Joe - July 21, 2008 at 12:40 AM
Hi, native New Orleanian here. Just wanted to let everyone know that Cajuns are indeed the folks exiled from France & Canada, they brought their French influenced cuisine with them. The creole influence is the heat & spice brought with the slaves from the West Indies & the Spanish. 1 other tid bit is that we call the 3 main ingredients that start almost all food here (onions, celery, bell pepper)the holy trinity! The dish looks good, but please no tails on the shrimp & way more rice!
- April 6, 2009 at 8:27 AM
hello chef john my name is sam and i just finish cooking the shrimp jambalaya it was a hit i thank you very much my wife an kids now call me master chef sam i owe you one.
sam minneola fl - May 1, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Hi Chef John,
I made this recipe today and it was delicious. You were right about the brown rice. It brought a nice nutty flavor to the dish. Now ill be
forced to use the rest haha
John - Los Angeles - July 9, 2009 at 1:51 AM
How about making a stock out of the shrimp shells, as you did in your shrimp ragu dish that you presented with the (luscious!) corn custard? Use in place of, or to supplement the chicken stock?
Sorry about the sentence structure, but I've gotta run ... - July 13, 2009 at 10:00 PM
- Chef John said...
yes, that would be a great idea!
- July 13, 2009 at 11:02 PM
I just made this dish, and it was awesome. Thanks Chef John!
- August 30, 2009 at 4:57 AM
- Constantin Moraru said...
Hi Chef John.
Do you have a recipe on site of how to make chicken stock ?
I can't find it in my near stores.
Thanks - October 10, 2009 at 8:33 PM
- Unknown said...
wow, this looks so good; can i substitute a scallop, or clam or some sort of fish for the shrimp since I'm deathly allergic to shrimp? If so, what would be my best bet for the closest taste/texture/etc?
:( - December 1, 2009 at 4:00 PM
- Chef John said...
scallops are closest
- December 1, 2009 at 4:01 PM
I know this is pretty old post, but the basic difference between creole and cajun is creole is everything made with tomatoes.. cajun usually no tomatoes... I'm cajun and I never seen anything cooked with tomatoes.. And dark roux.... MMMMMmmmmm... I love me some fricassee, cher!!!!!!!
- December 29, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Delicious, delicious. I have craved for Jamabalaya since I first had it at Nola's in Palo Alto many years ago. This is one I'll be doing over and over again.
Thomas - November 28, 2010 at 12:10 AM
- Blood Red Roses said...
My boyfriend had a craving for jambalaya and I had an inkling you'd have a recipe. The flavor of this dish is, impossibly, even better the next day! It also had the perfect amount of veggie-to-other-stuff ratio and not too much heat. The only downside is the brown rice, which is just too chewy for my tastes. Luckily, Whole Foods lets you bag a ridiculously small portion - $1.27 worth. I think I'll just pour the stew over some steamed white rice next time. Oh, and my boyfriend thought you were Alton Brown - no really!
- February 23, 2011 at 9:31 PM
I made this but added more sausage and deleted the shrimp due to my son's allergies. It was SO delicious. I kept wondering what I could cook as a side, but we just ate it solo.
Bravo, Chef John! - April 30, 2011 at 5:20 PM
- Rodge said...
Hello Chef,
You asked in your video the difference between Cajun and Creole. Cajun is derived Acadian, French people who lived in Acadia. Acadia was what is now three Canadian Provinces : New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. In in 1755, the British Troops, after defeating the Frenchs, deported a big part of the French population to Louisiana. I am not sure about Creole but my Haitian friends do refer to their cooking as Creole. I guess you can find more in History books. There is a very popular Cajun signer in Louisiana called Zachary Richard (http://www.zacharyrichard.com/).
Hope this brings some light. - July 2, 2011 at 9:52 AM
- Yoonhee said...
Hello John, Thank you for the recipe. Your jambalaya became one of my boyfiend's favorite food. Thanks again.
- October 13, 2011 at 9:14 PM
Long time watcher, first time cooker. This recipe inspired me to try jambalaya for the first time. I substituted the spices with a Creole spice blend I make at home, but otherwise, amazing!
- December 18, 2011 at 7:45 PM
I was thrilled to find your video online so I could see exactly what to do to make this marvelous dish. (I think I was a little heavy handed on the cayenne pepper, but still relish).
Thanks again for being my teacher. - January 14, 2012 at 7:06 PM
Hi Chef John, this looks delicious! How many does this recipe serve?
- March 21, 2012 at 12:22 PM
- Chef John said...
probably 4 large bowls
- March 21, 2012 at 12:32 PM
- Unknown said...
I just made this last night and it was delicious! A little too spicy perhaps, I might cut back a little on the heat next time but it was delicious. I'm excited to dig in to the left overs :)
- July 22, 2012 at 11:33 AM
- lisa0116 said...
Just made this and it is wonderful! Better than the Jambalaya I had on a visit to N.O.. I used home grown tomatoes, green bellpepper, and bay leaf! Used half of a vidalia onion for the onion..had no green ones. I put in chorizo leftover from yesterday in place of the shrimp. Used a regular smoked sausage..the chorizo gave the spice. Just scrumptious!! Thank you Chef John!!!
Lisa in Atlanta - July 30, 2012 at 6:05 PM
tried this recipe and it was awesome! awesomeness about it was that it was easy to make without compromising the delicious flavor. thanks for sharing. :)
- August 30, 2012 at 6:55 PM
Hello Chef John,
First let me say that I've made a lot of your recipes and I've loved them all. I made this last night - scaled it up to 6 servings - but didn't change anything besides omitting the green pepper.
It was good but it tasted like the cumin overpowered the dish. The adjusted recipe called for 1 tablespoon and 1-1/2 teaspoons ground cumin. Should I have not added so much? Or could I have done something technically wrong like not letting it saute in the butter long enough?
Thanks for the help and please keep your recipes coming!
- September 24, 2012 at 4:50 PM
Any chance on getting an answer to yesterday's cumin question? Thanks!!
- September 25, 2012 at 1:55 PM
- Chef John said...
You didn't do anything wrong, but maybe you just don't like that much cumin. Taste is subjective, so all spices. salt, etc. need to be added "to taste" Add some taste, and add more if you want. This goes for ALL my recipes, and all recipes in general.
- September 25, 2012 at 3:51 PM
- Unknown said...
Hi Chef!
I've made this dish now several times for my boyfriend, parents and friends and everyone absolutely loves it (especially me!) I usually cook and eat a lot of Italian foods so this was a nice change. It's delicious and I could seriously eat this every week. Thank you for all your great recipes, you're a genius. And you're helping amateur home cooks like myself learn a lot and try new things. YUM! Thank you! - October 11, 2012 at 1:05 PM
All I can say is excellent...had to double with my crowd. I have kids with hollow legs. Kept it at 1 lb. of large shrimp but doubled the sausage. Again EXCELLENT! TKS CHEF!!
- October 22, 2012 at 6:53 PM
Hi Chef,
My name is Megan. I am 24 years old and I am from Boston. I must express my feelings. I recently discovered foodwishes.com and have become OBSESSED. I visit your site on a daily basis. Today, I was thinking of maybe trying to cook something with duck fat, so I went on youtube and entered my search. I saw a potato with duck fat recipe video so I clicked on it. When I heard your voice, I melted. I was so happy it was one of your recipes!! Had I known you had a duck fat recipe, I would have gone straight to your site. Silly me!! Cooking is truly a passion of mine and I want to get better and better. Your videos guide and direct me. AND, you cut out all the "in between" boring parts of the video. You keep it clear, concise, and best of all- FUNNY!! You are so funny I laugh over here in my little cubicle. And then my colleagues ask me what I am laughing about and then I brag about you. What really made me realize how much I loved foodwishes.com was when I got a little tipsy last Saturday and I started bragging about you LOL!! Chef John, I decided to leave a post on this recipe in particular because this is the first one I made and I will always have a soft spot for it. It's funny, I dated a dude for 2 weeks and cooked him dinner and ran into this website. Even though he is a bonehead now, I am glad I met him and cooked dinner for him because it brought me to you!! With the cold winter approaching, I am going to conquer your soup section. You are such an inspiration! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
- November 29, 2012 at 4:15 PM
- Chef John said...
Thank you, Meg!! :) You're going to make someone a very lucky man.
- November 29, 2012 at 5:22 PM
Chef John! I made this last night and it was a hit! First time and it came out perfectly. Don't know why I imagined this dish would be complicated, but it couldn't have been easier.
Thanks so much!
Mindy - January 31, 2013 at 9:06 AM
- ajuniverse said...
Chef John,
Still waiting for the rice to cook, and I put a bit too much cayenne but I'm down for spicy. But the saucy part is smelling and tasting delicious! Thank you for such an excellent recipe! My boyfriend and I are huge fans. You're charming and make us excited to cook up your plans. We already made the irish shepard's pie which was SO amazing. We were wondering if you had any recommendations of restaurants in the sf bay area? We live in Oakland but like going to Sf often. Let me know if you get a chance!
-Ajuni - March 20, 2013 at 12:54 AM
AJUniverse - spice is good! Chef John is out on a well deserved vacation this week but I am sure he'll send you a list of his favorite San Francisco restaurants when he gets back.
- March 20, 2013 at 11:15 AM
- Unknown said...
Cajuns aren't Creole, and a Creole isn't a Cajun. Creoles as an ethnic group are harder to define than Cajuns. "Creole" can mean anything from individuals born in New Orleans with French and Spanish ancestry to those who descended from African/Caribbean/French/Spanish heritage.
Creoles in New Orleans have played an important part in the culture of the city. Creoles, like Cajuns, have contributed so much to New Orleans art, music and social life; without them, New Orleans wouldn't be the unique city it is today
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NPR's Sonari Glinton reports China is in the front line in the battle for automotive global dominance.
SONARI GLINTON, BYLINE: In China this year, forecasters predict nearly 20 million cars will be sold. In the U.S., the bet is we'll sell about 15 and a half million.
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Also "uterus."
"Uterus on LSD."
"Uterus with sprinkles"
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These are horrifying.
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Uterus cakes. Sad to say, you are correct, it's exactly what they look like. But WHY???
"uterus with sprinkles."
I used to think everything was better with sprinkles. Maybe not so much anymore?
This post just made my morning! I'm going to have the psychadelic uterus in my head all day. Ha ha ha!
On LSD....*snort* *chortle*
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All I can see is uteruses. It is disturbing, although now my brain is turned to what is if that was the proper spelling for plural uterus. I feel as though uterus should be the plural for uterus, like moose. My brain is suffeciently addled. Time to go to work.
Those are hysterical! Cake 1, reminds me of Shrek 2 when the fairy godmother gets zapped and all that's left is her glasses and wand.
Cake 2, Boy what a sadistic cake! Smack, then pucker up? (read it like the old Batman TV show...Pow! Zap!)? I guess that's why the lips are so huge.
Cake 3, "Uterus on LSD" LOL-ed on that one! I think it's starin' at me man!
Cake 4, Uterus with sprinkles? She may want to go have that checked out.... O.o
Cake 5, I'm guessing that's supposed to be some sort of sport team mascot? FAIL.
Cake 6, Yeah, another one that needs their Va-dragon checked. Spots. Not. Good. Nice lettering tho'.
wv: chancy: It's awful chancy using these "bakers" to make your cake!
"Gestate!" Buahahaha!
Are you trying to say something, is Jon expecting ?!?!?!?!
I Gestate... I love it
Ohhhh, Jen! Gestate???? I love your puns more than cake.
Honk Em?
Ouch. The longhorn cake hurts. Any baker worth their salt in Texas knows how to make a longhorn cake.
I'd like to think my uterus is psychedelic. ;D
"Thanks, but I gestate."
Awesome! Made me snort! Thanks...
These cakes are uterus-lly ridiculous!
Love them all, in a wrecky sort of way.
wv - mingrae: Looking at all the uterine wrecks gave me a mingrae headache!
Is the Princess Uterus moldy? Maybe flecked with dark purple overspray from a different cake??
"Uterus on LSD"
I just chocked on my coffee.
You rock this post :)
At least the Uterus on LSD looks...well...happy! I think it's smiling...or maybe it's a flashback....
wv - dusnes: Hey - dusnes look like a uterus to you?
" . . . but I gestate." Genius!
Those are positively fallopian (what? It's an adjective, isn't it?).
wv - sansupsy
I'm embarrassed to say "uterus" - I prefer cutesy words. So, I'll just say that, since my hysterectomy, I am sansupsy. Hope your upsy is fine!
Ridiculous is right!
Oh gee...I hope I don't see uteri (plural?) everywhere I look now. That's the last thing I need...
I would just like to say that my almost two year old daughter climbed in my lap when I was looking at today's post, looked at the screen, popped her thumb out of her mouth, and said "Oh no!". Even a two year old can recognize a Wreck.
Being pregnant, I have had my uterus on my mind lately so I appreciate today's post. Thank you!
"Gestate" !!!! Love it! :)
But I must ask -- what was the LSD uterus really supposed to be?
I can see what they were all going for except for the one on LSD. What is that supposed to be and why can't I see it? (Help!)
"Thanks but I gestate"????
I love a good pun in the morning. Thank you.
I once made a co-worker a Uterus Memory Book when she was getting ready to have a hysterectomy, complete with opening "Ode to My Uterus" poem. Who knew we could have had cake too??
I don't see how that one on LSD could be anything BUT a uterus! WHY does this exist?? :J
Thanks but I gestate XD XD perfect pun :D
This kind of made my day, since I'm going to the lady parts doctor this afternoon. Maybe if I ask nicely she will put some sprinkles there.
I was totally expecting a pregnancy announcement at the end of this one!
Jen, is it that time of the month? uterus on the brain. Does that last one have a venereal disease?
I might like my uterus more if it came with sprinkles.
Hilarious post! <3 <3
yes, what was the LSD cake going for? ET meets the Rainbow Connection?
Meanwhile the cake with sprinkles looks like Pippi Longstocking with dandruff (or confetti) in freefall
The uterus on LSD...I think that one might actually be a uterus...on LSD.
The rest, unrecognizable...
The last cake is proof that buying a fancy fondant cutting machine doesn't always improve your decorating skills. At least it helps with the spelling.
I thought the first one said Princess Balls. Which actually made sense, since they could be pink balls. However, I doubt that Princess' have balls. The others, I got nuthin'.
Uterus #1 looks more like a stomach. If you swallow that much hardware, though, you're definitely going to have a grumbly in your tummy.
And, finally, "Thanks, but I gestate" is a criminally bad pun. And yes, it made me laugh until almost choked.
WV: shesses. Shesses it's not her fault everything looks like a uterus.
right lets see...
1)The Princess Uterus: ok, I have no clue on this one!
2)The 'Also' Uterus: I think this is supposed to be a set of kissing lips
3)Uterus on LSD: I don't know, but I'm getting trippy just looking at it
4)Uterus with Sprinkles: Pretty sure this is supposed to be yet another set of kissing lips
5)The Ridiculous Uterus: Bull head. Texas Longhorns??
6)The Magic Baby Bag: guessing this is supposed to be a handbag cake... but in reality I think it looks like panties
Abby said "This kind of made my day, since I'm going to the lady parts doctor this afternoon. Maybe if I ask nicely she will put some sprinkles there.
March 23, 2011 11:11 AM"
Abby-- I live in MN too and if you find a lady parts doctor that wacky and fun I'm gonna need details. (thanks for cracking me after I got so giggly at Jen's post.)
I DO have a psychedelic uterus -- but that's because of things I Gestate in the 70's. sigh.
"Thanks but I gestate." *falls over laughing* :D Your years as a jungle cruise skipper weren't good to you, were they?! :D Love this! NOTHING whets my appetite like cake shaped like ambiguous reproductive organs. So irresistibly YUM.
The first one is supposed to be a sash...I think. Sadly, this is actually what the picture looks like from Deco Pac/Bakery Craft. (I don't remember which company actually sells this kit.) So it's their fault for creating such ugly cake designs.
Disgusted in TN
When you said "uterus with sprinkles" I almost spat out my coffee. LOL!
When will these CCCs go away?!? Although my local grocery store makes some beautiful ones...
It just makes more sense, with the Sprinkles and Cupcakes, DC craze that people would just order two dozen INDIVIDUALLY decorated cupcakes...doesn't it?
Seriously. What was the "Uterus on LSD" one supposed to be?!
The next to last one is probably supposed to be a Texas Longhorns logo... I think the "writing" on the lower right hand side is supposed to say "Wreck 'Em!"
Oh, irony, you are so sweet.
- Odie
When I quote your polite refusal I expect you to be there to defend me!
I gestate... my children might block your site from my computer ;-Þ
Maybe the Longhorn CCC (patooie!) was done by an Aggie. They are the "Wrecking Crew" after all!
Great post today! Perfect pun at the end. LOL!
The link to the LSD cake says it's a butterfly. Even knowing that, I'm not seeing anything but a uterus!
Oh, Jen. "I gestate." Genius.
"Thanks, but I gestate." GROAN!!!
Honestly, what are they trying make? 'Cause uterus is what they all look like to me :P Wierder and wierder :)
Maybe these bakers secretly dream of becoming an OB/GYN, should the whole "cake decorating" gig not pan out..
wv: nobetai Nobetai better lay a finger on my uterus cake!!! I gotta get through med school!
hahahahahahahahaha "Thanks but I gestate" I literally lol'd at work and almost choked on my salad.
@phantomessj (9:49 am): Thank you...if I ever put together an all girl band, I now have a name for it: The Psychedelic Uterus. Awesome!
@Abby (11:11 am): If your "lady parts doctor" won't do it, you could always try Vagazzling! http://www.vajazzling.com/ (Uh...may not be safe for work...)
Uteri? Like fungus/fungi? There may have been an uncontrollable outburst at LSD Uterus... I love having to scroll down to see the entire post. It really adds to the shock value seeing the progression of awesomely bad, instead of seeing them all at once. :)
I know, I know!!! The last one is a uterine tissue sample under the microscope! Now they all relate to one another......if we're talking about uteruses of Texas Longhorns(?) Great "gestate" pun, BTW :)
LOL, seriously especially the "with sprinkles"
(not even gonna mention daisy's)
I think that last uterus has endometriosis...
WV: crocke
Professional bakers? What a crocke!
WV: dewsh. Nothing left to say, certainly goes with today's wrecks.
Yikes, I think I feel some cramping coming on..
#1 Stomach. With scepter and tiara. Took me a while to decode 'Princess Belle'. Not liking the gray spots, though.
#2 If the spots on the first one are what I think, then a bowl of Pepto may be just what is needed afterward.
#3 Even the Correction Cops are flummoxed by this one, it seems. Jen wins!
#4 I see a lei -- which might be what was intended. Scary thought...
#5 Huh. Is it a CCC (patooie!) if the frosting pavement has gaps in it? Perhaps the picture was taken before the final coat was applied.
#6 'Congrats' if you can determine what this was intended to be -- and can get past the salmon mousse frosting and the general yuckiness of the CCC(p).
you have reason to be proud of the "gestate" pun... that's gold!
the uterus piped onto the marshmallows took me a minute - because by then I couldn't even figure out what ELSE it could have been...
At last year's Austin Day of Sharing a demonstrator had a cutter design that he put on a cake and someone called out, "Everyone here is thinking that looks like a Longhorn!"
I quietly thought, "Um, no, I thought it looked like a uterus."
You're warping me. Awesome. :D
I'm two days overdue, so this post is strangely apropos for me. In any case, you gave this hormonal, weepy pregnant lady a much needed laugh. Thank you.
That first one didn't say "Princess Balls"? They missed an opportunity there.
Just goes to show... Uterus oughta be in pictures... (blinkblink)...
WV - arewori: If you arewori'd about trusting wreckerators not to make your ccc look like a uterus, you have a good reason.
Uterus, but she hardly knew us.
I want a Fallopian tube! With sprinkles!
All of these "cakes" are CCCs! Anyways...
#1: I'm initial guesses are a short, pudgy pink scarf or a pink crescent moon. I know they have nothing to do with "Princess" but that's all I've got.
#2: Lips. Definitely.
#3: I've got nothing.
#4: I think they are also lips, but mainly do to the fact that there is a red outline (the sprinkles are on top of the red outline)
#5: I think some kind of (white and orange) silhouette of a bull.
#6: A polka dot purse.
That is what I've come up with. Now if you'll excuse me, I must go dig up some graves to the bury the brain cells #3 has murdered.
Hey, man, did you ever really look -- I mean REALLY look at your uterus? Far out.
I feel like Cake #1 is staring at me, and I really don't appreciate that kind of behavior from a uterus. Also, your "gestate" punchline resulted in me shouting "HA! Perfect!" quite loudly. Now I have a disturbing cake AND an attitude-y cat staring at me. Awesome.
wv - emetin: "Oh, emetin a uterus cake, what are YOU eatin'?"
"This is ridiculous" looks more like "uterus with ovaries" to me ;-)
oh. "hook 'em." i squinted and turned my head and pondered for many seconds trying to figure out why the uterus needed to "hork 'em."
wv - tritc: the tritc is to get someone to think you decorate well. if you can't tritc them, you won't sell many ccc's. (patooie!)
I LOVE these cakes, but I'm an OB/Gyn so I have an excuse...
gestate...you slay me. Thanks for some superb wrecks and even better writing. Love!
You are wrong! They aren't uteri (sp?) but panties! Now put on your big girl panties and deal with it!
Hahahahahahahaha . . . snort . . . hahahahahah . . . *tears* . . . hahahahaha.
I can only think that perhaps someone's biological clock has alarmed suddenly? Ovary well, perhaps not, but we all gestate and digest that idea. I am still rolling on the floor spraying ice tea nasally. Excellent blog today. Thanks!
*ROFL* seriously! DO these people have uterus shaped cake pans or what? (and I'm not exactly a Longhorns fan but that cake is a total disgrace)
Bwahahahaha! My 4 year old guesses: "Sock, pot, rainbow, snail, robot, spots."
WOW! That Hook Em' Horns cake takes the uhmmm... cake.
Yeah I went there.
Sharon, that actually was a cow head. Hook 'em is the moddo for the Texas Longhorns football team.
Well, if you tire of making uterus cakes, you could always switch crafts...
Yes, I knit one of these for my best friend after her hysterectomy. After she stopped laughing, she was much appreciative.
The first one looks like it's supposed to be a pashmina. Just saying.
Gestate... ROTFL!! I'm going to be giggling about that one all night. Love it!! :-)
I love posts like this where I literally laugh out loud over and over and over again. Thanks, Jen!
Methinks we need a "uterus cakes" tag, given how many cakes out there unintentionally (or intentionally) resemble the lady-bits.
De-sgusting! Maybe they were driven around in the trunk of a car at 50 mph first.
So, is the Longhorn cake a U.T.-rus?
I can not imagine what the Uterus on LSD is really supposed to be other than what you wrote. I tried to think of something else that it could be, but uterus, uterus, uterus is all I can see.
Thanks for the perfectly timed laugh! Once again, your post coincidest with what I'm studying in nursing school...and now for something completely different (sigh)...gestational diabetes.
"Uterus with sprinkles" - hahahaha!!! best quote ever!
I just had an idea! Maybe if I buy a uterus cake it will help me get pregnant! LOL.
OMG! I think "Uterus on LSD" actually is a uterus! I see uterus, vagina, ovaries... I think I can even see the cervix. Maybe it's a cake for a obstetrician's conference? 70's disco themed conference?
Wow. I started laughing after reading the comment on the first one and it only got worse (better?) from there. Thanks for putting a smile on my uterus..face! I mean face!
WV: Polatio. Wasn't he the old guy in Hamlet who never stopped talking?
"Thanks, but I gestate."
Well, there's our secret password to the bunker for the next Epcot! Now, if we can only agree on a secret handshake nothing will stop us from achieving world domination!!
-Barbara Anne
All good little Texas Longhorns learn during sex ed in school that the uterus with ovaries & fallopian tubes attached resembles our beloved Bevo (the Longhorn's) head. Hook'em!
"This one looks like you...with breasts". I am glad that everyone else is seeing uteri (?). I love the LSD one the best. I too wonder what it was supposed to be.
Brilliant entry, as usual King Friday.
wv: laudde: We laudde the humor and puns that are part of Jen's repritore.
I *think* the psychedelic uterus is supposed to be a rainbow in the sky, and the yellow cupcakes are pots of gold? I mean, St Patty's day did just happen so it's very likely there's a couple of ugly rainbow cakes that nobody bought still laying around. If that's not it, uh.... I got nothing.
Also, I sent a friend of mine the bare image, no name attached to it or nothing and he said "a vague symbol for the female reproductive system?" Swears he didn't check the site first.
Not one single "paTOOEY!"? You are slipping.
oooh silly cupcake cakes, they'll getcha every time.
also, i am reading a novel called perdido street station and it has a lot of steampunk elements in it, which made me think of you. haven't finished it yet, but thus far i recommend it if you like fantasy!
Does this mean if anyone eats one of those "cakes" they get pregnant? Lol. Scary. Maybe they want to encourage pregnancy by..erm having people eat those horrifying things. That or encourage people to just avoid sex altogether. Evil wreckerators.
The first one......lumpy space princess? Maybe?
this is good........alas u dont have
Reminds me of one of my favorite Homerisms: "It's uterUS, not uterYOU!"
The Macra Terror!
So many terrifying disguises...But Paradise Pink and heart-shaped SPRINKLES? Will they stop at nothing?
@Sharon - oh, is THAT what it's supposed to be?! Seriously, that one does look like a uterus!
@LillyW - the plural of uterus is uteri.
The "pucker up" one is definitely meant to be lips. So is the sprinkle one (look only at the lines the sprinkles make - it's lips with really long smile-line extensions) - but looks way more like a uterus!! Last one is definitely meant to be a handbag, but I agree with the commenter who said it looks like underwear (I have some that are exactly the reverse - black with pink polka dots!)
The LSD one, probably a butterfly? Or maybe a happy face (:D type) - orange is the eyes, whole inner area is the open happy mouth. That would be a Pokemom or alien or something's happy face, of course... maybe a Na'vi, since it's blue with orange eyes?
The first one - I really don't know either, maybe a beauty queen sash? That'd make more sense without the scepter, but if it was supposed to have to do with Disney's Belle (which is what that word under Princess is - Belle) it should be yellow. It doesn't really look that much like a uterus either, though - the stomach idea is closer, hah!
WV: bundi. "Dese cakes, dey all got a bundi oven."
Ahh...this is a horrible game to play when you're already hallucinating!
I'm not all joking. I didn't take anything TO hallucinate. I took two things, under doctor's orders, to help get rid of a medical condition. They are now helping me find two other things because both of these meds, AND walking Pneumonia itself, can all cause hallucinations. Joy joy! My first trip and it wasn't even planned!
(OK Kids, by the way, trips like this aren't worth paying for or worse yet risking your life over. My "visions" today included a feint little circle of light across the room, which scared me cause I thought I might be heading for it, feint pastel shapes that were about a decipherable as these cakes, pink splotches that stayed in my sight wherever I was look, and twirling letters sort of superimposed on a shirt on the floor across the room. And though all but the first were pretty tame I've had panic attacks with this too. If you've ever been to a lazer show...this was nothing like it (lazer show was much cooler...heck, discovery store is much cooler).
(Staying anonymous because well...medical stuff. Have fun with this so long as you don't use my name. It is true, but more than I want to share with anyone who might know me or meet me or spam me. ).
This definitely takes the pretty out of pink. What were these people thinking?
cake 3...how could you not see the uterus as you were decorating!
The "uterus with sprinkles" is clearly supposed to be lips. I don't know how the two could ever be mixed up.
Are you sure you don't have a pun in the oven?
General Foods International Coffees Suisse Mocha Cafe spew all over the monitor upon the first instance of "uterus". Ensuing mad laughter wakes neighbor at 6AM.
Love it.
I would totally use the rainbow uterus cake to congratulate a lesbian couple on getting their first child. ;)
Uterus with sparkles.... Definitely a wreck but I see a mouth outline. Maybe I just don't get uterus cakes! Haha
I had a hysterectomy a month ago. Tonight, I'm hurting a lot, just when I thought I was just about healed up. Then I saw this and it made my night so much better. Thank you for the laugh!
I gotta agree - pure uterus-r-us-.....es....?
Nothing wrong with making an ode/homage to the female reproductive elements - but why in cakey form?
Maybe it should be in the "muffin" form - ccc?
Actually, that last one could be a bovine (cow) uterus-- the dots look like placentomes.
my son thinks the first pink thing is a SOCK. could be... and his take on the last thing is apparently a SWEATER to him. he does have an amazing imagination :) thanks for the laughs! these make my own cakes look so incredible in comparison.
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State payments to Amistad America were halted in late June and will not resume until a state audit of the troubled organization is completed, state officials said Friday.
"We plan to withhold payment to Amistad until OPM completes its audit of Amistad, which is expected to be completed in the next few weeks," said Catherine Smith, commissioner of the state Department of Economic and Community Development, in a letter to Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano, R-North Haven, on Friday.
Fasano had called for DECD to stop payments to Amistad America in recent weeks, including a press release on July 3, a letter to the DECD on Monday and a letter to the governor on Thursday. But it wasn't until Amistad America Executive Director Hanifa Washington announced earlier this week that she was backing out of the schooner Amistad's commitment to attend Sailfest this weekend in New London that information about the suspension of state grant funds to the organization came to light.
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In Smith's letter to Fasano, she said Amistad America will have to, as part of a fiscal year 2015 contract with the state, submit details on how it plans to spend state funds.
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Bergstrom on Friday provided an electronic copy of Amistad America's contract with the state for the funding period that began July 1, 2013, and ended June 30, 2014.
According to the contract, the grantee must return all unexpended grant funds to the DECD if it closes or substantially reduces or suspends its operations. Promotional material must include the DECD's name, and funds must be expended for the project as described in the grantee's application.
The contract addresses Amistad America's audit at the bottom by requiring the organization to retain the services of a professional accounting firm to prepare its financial records and requiring Amistad America to provide the auditor, assigned by OPM, with all requested records and documentation.
Amistad America lost its nonprofit status with the Internal Revenue Service for failing to file tax returns for three years.
The Amistad was originally scheduled to arrive at Sailfest today and be open for dockside tours and sailing excursions. Washington said on Tuesday that the ship wouldn't be coming in part because of The Day's coverage of how the organization has spent $8 million in state funding.
The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday that the ship's license is valid until October.


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Now for a surprising find from the insect world. The dung beetle, that insect known for sculpting little balls of animal feces that they roll around and later feast on. Well, it turns out that these beetles have a built-in cosmic GPS that helps them navigate around. Dung beetles use light - listen to this - use light from the Milky Way to orient themselves at night. It's all in a paper published earlier this month in the journal Current Biology.
My next guest is here to tell us more about how dung beetles see the starry - how do they see the starry night, a starry sky? Eric Warrant is a co-author of the dung beetle study in Current Biology, professor of functional zoology at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. Welcome to the program.
ERIC WARRANT: Thank you very much. It's nice to be here.
FLATOW: So dung beetles use the starry night, they use the Milky Way to navigate around?
WARRANT: They do indeed. Yes. It's a surprising finding, but they do indeed. Yeah. We discovered it almost by chance, really, because we were studying their mechanisms of navigating with regards to the moon, which is slightly more visible and obvious stimulus during the night sky. But we discovered on most parts of the month when the moon came up extremely late after midnight, particularly that until midnight, we suddenly discovered that the beetles were still able to navigate even without the moon. So we were quite puzzled by this, a bit alarmed actually at first because we were worried that our previous work was wrong. But then after further contemplation, we sort of realized that, well, maybe they were using the stars. And it turned out to be the case.
FLATOW: They can actually see the Milky Way at night time?
WARRANT: They can, yes. They probably don't see that many individual stars because their eyes really aren't sensitive enough to discern many more than probably the 10 or so brightest stars. But they can actually see the very dim stripe of light, which is - which makes up the Milky Way, especially in the Southern Hemisphere. It's very, very obvious actually compared to the Northern Hemisphere. And it's this broad and rather dim stripe of light which they're able to detect and to orient with respect to.
FLATOW: How do you craft an experiment to discover this?
WARRANT: Yes. Well, the first clue we got was that we covered their heads with little tiny cardboard hats, which we cut out of black card and then taped onto the back of their bodies so that they - the view of the night sky was removed. And when we did that, they were no longer able to orient. And the way they normally orient is that they roll balls of dung in straight lines directly away from the dung pad.
They have to do this because if they don't do this, they end up rolling back into the dung pad. And there's a lot of beetles there, all competing for this very valuable resource, and it's very likely that they get their dung ball stolen after quite a fight often. So they must get away from the dung pad in a straight line. That's the quickest and the most efficient way of leaving the dung pad, and so it's critically important for them that they do this. And so the stripe of light in the sky helps them to do this. They can actually orient with respect to it and orient in straight line away.
FLATOW: So what happens when it's a cloudy night and they can't see the sky? They just don't go out that night?
WARRANT: No, they do but they roll in circles. So it's actually a very dangerous night indeed for dung beetles.
WARRANT: But thankfully, in South Africa where we were working, cloudy nights are not all that common.
FLATOW: Wow. And so they must have developed this over the millennia, this ability to do this?
WARRANT: Well, we're not absolutely sure when and how and for how long it's evolved. But certainly, I daresay, it been around for a while because, as I say, it's a very important behavior that they have. Everything that they live for really has to do with dung. So - and the dung ball is incredibly important to them because they have to find a mate and lay their eggs in this ball. So it's a very valuable thing, this ball. So rolling away from the dung pile in a straight line with the help of the moon and - if it's present - and with the Milky Way if the moon isn't present seems to be something that probably has evolved some time ago. And they're probably not the only animals that are able to see it either.
FLATOW: Yeah. That was my next question. They must think - there must be other animals that do this too.
WARRANT: It's very likely. We - this is the first animal that we know of that's able to orient with respect to the Milky Way. But it's very likely that there are others. There are many night-flying moths and grasshoppers and locusts, for instance, that migrate considerable distances at night. And it might be the case that they, too, can use the Milky Way under a dark night.
FLATOW: Wow. Starry, starry night has a whole new meaning now.
WARRANT: Indeed it does.
FLATOW: All right. Eric Warrant, thank you very much for taking time to be with us.
WARRANT: A pleasure.
FLATOW: Good luck.
WARRANT: Thank you very much for having me. Thank you. Bye bye.
FLATOW: You're welcome. Eric Warrant is professor of zoology in the Department of Biology at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.