Phil Robertson's Epic Jambalaya Recipe, Generosity, and How Food Can Help You Share Jesus | Ep 144

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It would take me about 12 15 minutes, just let it sit there and cook over low heat, make sure it doesn't stick to you, you always have it very spicy, it has a stick. roll it up, roll it up, make sure it doesn't stick, we've got it good, you've got it, so the only two things left except the shrimp and everyone already has about two pounds of shrimp ready that you've peeled, yeah, you've got the shrimp there and on the shrimp I took two racks of green onions, I cut off the ends of the green onions and look shrimp and you have two racks of green onion with shrimp in a bowl that is the last bracket that goes in so you have the last one, now the you've cooked.

I've already done it no no no no yes all I've done is peel them so I've got it ready, that's the last thing you put in the

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because it doesn't take long and you don't want to finish, you make a dump and don't come back when you put the shrimp, it's over, the cooking is done, then you just let it sit for 30 minutes, but anyway you have it all, how were the shrimp cooked? They are cooked there. They're cooking in the garden for 30 minutes it's hot you said let it sit so you have everything there where I stopped while I'm going it's your time for the rice I've already measured it out eight cups in this particular case I poured that rice in there, there's cooked liquid from the vegetables, yeah, and you started with the bacon, there's a certain amount of tomatoes, you have a couple cups, you probably have two or three cups of liquid in there.

I'm going to back that up when the eight cups of rice go there with two four six eight ten 10 cups of chicken broth. I have a lot of rice here, so I put it all in there and it simmers, but I want to bring it. that back to about half throttle on your a little more than half maybe just half on your electric gas stove don't even try it out that was eliminated well you eliminated a lot of people 80 percent of the electric stove you are How are you? in the yuppie video, you're not going to cook it right, so you get it all right once the water starts bubbling and stuff, you make sure it doesn't stick and you bring it to a ball at half throttle or a little bit.

Except once it starts to boil you say "Okay, time to cover", you have everything in that giant laboratory, but two things, the green onions and the sauce that the rice is cooked in, with all that, yeah, that's right, oh, I didn't realize that, so the rice. If you put it on rice, you are putting rice on it. Yes, by the way, this dish came from Africa and when they come you know a lot about the slave trade and everything that came out of it, they knew it really had to be. They added a pot of rice to it, they would kill a vermin, they cut it up, They browned it a little bit, you know, they didn't have bacon and, uh, I had it in Liberia, it's called uh jolie, I think jolie is a dish of African origin.

It's, it's jumbo, it's our

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, thank the Lord, the Africans knew how to cook that, but anyway, you have everything that's simmering. Now we are at the every three minutes stage. Now I choose to do this. Some of the chefs would laugh, but that's it. true, I make a good jambalaya, I'm basically using your

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s, but the way I make it you have to be careful with the rice because you will burn it on the bottom, so when you have everything together except the shrimp and onions, I put a Cover that, I have the heat on, low to low, medium, not like simmer, but you know, so much gas, so I have it and I'm looking at the clock.

I'm sitting at my table drinking a glass. of tea and I'm looking at the clock every three minutes every three minutes eight to ten times every three minutes you take that spatula and when that when you're fine, it started at 9 20 in the morning at 9 23 It's like you take off the lid and low with the spatula. There's still a lot of liquid in there, it's bubbling, I rake the bottom and run. At some point you will see a little brown on the bottom, no problem, but if you wait eight minutes, it will be too black on the bottom, so every three minutes I roll it up, put the lid back on and sit down to drink my tea.

Three minutes pass, I get up and notice that I'm looking at all that liquid from the chicken cans. broth yes, it's starting to disappear it's starting to spin only to rise so you roll it again you sit down again eight or ten times later you drink a little the water is evaporating the water is the rice the water is soaking into itself The rice itself is trapped, the water rises the liquid, that's why you have that flavor, think of all that flavor of the vegetables and meats that goes into the rice, right, rice is a soft grain, this is the way to prepare a pot of rice, so then about eight or ten times I roll it, I have a spoonful and I check the rice to make sure it's not crunchy in the middle.

You want it fluffy, so when the rice gets fluffy, I guess 30 minutes of rolling every three minutes. That's about 10 buns, no problem, so start finishing off the carbs you're going to get from the rice. You spend 30 minutes, you're working hard, yeah, I mean, you're bouncing around and when the rice is fluffy, about that eighth. or ninth or tenth time when you're rolling it when your rice is fluffy you say no grandma it's it's it's good I don't like dry jambalaya a lot of people's rice separates I want it to be moist a little more a little more it's like yesterday, yeah, so you go in and on the last lap you look at it, you check the rice, you say the rice is ready, then you throw in two pounds of shrimp and the scallions you roll it in your jambalaya a couple of times, three times.

Make sure you don't get stuck, put a lid on it and I sit there and you go three more minutes after those last three minutes. Turn off the heat, leave the lid on, never look at that, never say, I wonder what we have, we don't have anyone. come in saying what you have in a pot, I would put it right in my pot because if they take the lid off, there goes your heat, yeah, so you want your heat, you want your jambalaya just change this to shrimp to cook and it's only three . minutes you turn off the heat and let it sit there, the jamb is left for 30 minutes, just let it sit there, prepare whatever sides you want for the next meal because this one is good and after 30 minutes of walking, we didn't.

It didn't rise yesterday, your rice is simply fluffy and everyone who eats it says it has to be her. I did it. I thought you were going to tell me in less than a minute, so she look, yeah, yeah, really, look, no, this was actually it. a little preparation and turning the ball on the ad you say two hours later you're ready to start so it's ready in two hours it takes two hours off your life but what better way to spend two hours than I have a good big job, so how many, how many would feed that?

It was 20, just 20 people or if it's just you and mom, like in our case, now it's down to nothing, it's over, it lasted two days, yes, the second day is better. that the first day because the flavors have come together, yes, of course, so when you get up, what we do is eat everything we can on Monday, yes I did it on Monday and the next day, Tuesday, after we We ate, we bagged it. Put it in the refrigerator, yes, we put it in a plastic bag, take it out and then many of them just put it in the microwave, heat it or put it back, so what did the singer do, what friend of the Japanese, the rat walker, oh South Carolina?

He looked at us and said this has to be the best thing I've ever tasted, how the hell did you make that concoction? I said a couple of hours of your time, so the good news is just one, thank goodness. We have the Cajun people south of us where we learn most of this, but you're this one who's half Cajun so you don't want a completely bloody one or half and you have one, you know, white boots full of blood, yeah, that's true and we have a lot of white boots to see a lot of white boots.

I love white boots, so they know how to fish and they know how to do it. Exactly, but you can't understand a word. It's not. My theory is. because it's bad english and bad french together which basically makes y'all's mother from Oliver Ken people olies they're all from bro bridge louisiana yeah so we got enough lineage that y'all make into you to make them great. Yeah, you've got enough redneck and Cajun together, think about it, that's the best of a human being, the best of both worlds. What I've always said about the Cajun world is that it's like they're the only people on the planet. that if you close your eyes and listen to them, you'll think they're drunk, whether they've been drinking or not, and a lot of them may be, a lot of them have been fine, they've been, but like psychopaths, they're all done. like what's wrong because you, if you just don't look at it, close your eyes, our brothers from south Louisiana are the salt of the earth, oh, I love them to death, they know how to cook, I don't care what they say, well, coming from there New Orleans on the other side of Lake Charles says whatever they want, they know how to cook, but look at anyone in the whole world, they put to shame the meat that has come to South Louisiana, that's the first thing they say is how good it is the

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, they embarrassed me and the invention in the invention of

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, just think about who was the first guy, I guarantee you a Cajun looked at an oyster and said, oh we eat that good, who was the first guy who looked into a crab hole and said no, was that right?

It would be nice to eat crustaceans, yeah, okay, let's take another break, so one of the things that people have to keep in mind in this world has always been like this is that people like to steal other people's things, I want say, yes, it's Steven who has been present. a long time ago when he says that he has been with us from the beginning, from the beginning, that is exactly right and, of course, the criminals that you meet often do not know, they think things clearly, but many times they are cunning. enough to figure out how to get it and get your stuff, so one of the things that one of our sponsors is a company called simply secure, which you've probably heard of them before and the main thing in their arsenal is cameras and sensors what can you do. that the average person can match me exactly, yes, even James, and we've talked a lot about his technical skills on the show, yes, you don't have to have a well-known person come in to do it, you put them in yourself, which is really cool, take less than an hour to get all your cameras up and running 15 per month which is great as they really have a long history of being a very good company so if you want to check them out just dot com slash no shame you will get a free gift.

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Can I like it a little spicier? I'll probably use the spicy sausage and leave it at that. You can do that because you don't do it very well. It's like when you eat my wife when she makes beans and rice and we. make the jalapeño cornbread, well, people eat it, you know, they start sweating. Your mother has seen if I follow her instructions or not, but she has said: why not? Instead of kicking it up, just lower it a little. Bring it down on the giant block, bring it right, she can't eat spicy food, although her whole stomach is broken, yes that's right, so the good news is for the people who are in the forest, which you can get by going to Blazetv . .com, no shame, we've used jayster or

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, you actually did this on that show, so yeah, well you can see what you just went through in the woods with

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, but at the same time I enjoyed just the description, he added the specificity of the bowl and the second, I don't know if the IT guy here, Jace, I don't know if Jace, the IT guy, is looking for a treasure right there, I don't know if he can actually go to the kitchen and do it. this for two hours I take it as a challenge I can cook up the jambalaya jase well I just love it so much I think well I thought it would take more two hours what is that that's nothing yes the biggest job is the preparation I really mean the preparation It is the main thing that is carried out.

I can put my signature on it. Wannaburns, stack them up. well you can look at it however you want that's what happened to us yeah let's take one last break and you know I think I said this on the podcast before one of the principles noticed that where did you put that into practice and I think I didn't even You thought about it the moment you did it, it was When we were fishing, we didn't have much else to do anyway, but when you fished, you sent those fish because that's how we make money, that's how we pay the bills and, but you always part ways, you know that i.

I'm saving this here for the family yeah so we ate the best that's good in the tub and there was a lot of fish in there that wasn't that good but you can still sell them so when I would take the fish to the fish market and We would throw them out and you know, they would pay us the money. I realized that sometimes I've been there when they ate fish because they were like us, they were in the fish business, they ate the leftovers. clean them, but I just know that they were eating the collarbones, the buffalo, the buffalo, the goose, not the ribs, they were eating the collarbones, so I watched the process and thought: you know you're getting the last fruits of this family, but we were still getting the scoops and we were, you know, we were on the chain in terms of that, but it's really interesting that that was the beginning of the scoops.

What you were saying is that my family comes first, we are going to eat the best, that's what God says I want us to be selling, by the way, Miss K once told me that 225 to 250 a week was the money that we were earning by selling the fish and someone said they actually thought I was going somewhere, I told him one day at a time and then the duck call came and then you say it was a very humiliating process, that's what happened because I and the reason I was thinking about how you heard someone say boy, we're down and out and poor snakes, no, we're no good.

I mean, yeah, I love that early, I mean, you know we didn't when I remember when we started making a little more money and I started to see what fast food was all about, which you know when you're a teenager or what be. eat anything, you know, I mean, I mean Willie and I would be looking for coins to see it. I wrote look, we stopped at Burger King and these two, you know, they were like how much money do we have here, they're fighting. They had 12, so they'd start ordering and then they'd tell the person how much that is, yeah, and they'd say, oh, you're up to, you know, seven dollars, okay, give us two more cheeseburgers and look, they'd take them.

To the end, what I'll describe sums up five years between Willie and I, because we only had one vehicle and we had to

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it. I didn't even realize that I didn't know that you guys were hanging around good when We've Got Some Money, but you know, before, the only place I'd ever really eaten was that place, what was the name of the dinner bell? or something like that? I was on the same side of the track, so that's humiliating, wait. Let me tell you this story, it was on the same side of the tracks as the fish market, yeah, I remember the first time I went in there, I was the only white person there, it's very poor, he said, well, why are you going to get in? there because the food was amazing, yeah, I mean, there were three big old African American women back here at a stove, yeah, and it's turnip greens and you know, oh yeah, cornbread with hot chocolate and pork chops, and they just, you know, gave enough for two. people, oh yeah, and uh, I once took Missy there once and she asked me, are you sure about this?

I said, am I sure? I ate here for three years, this would be the best food you've ever had, yes I'm serious. It was amazing, there's a new one there called Big Mamas and it's the same thing, it's an old fast food place that she's using but you walk in there and it has that soul food smell, it's amazing, oh I don't see it. I'd rather go somewhere like that where there's good food and you're sitting there watching them cook. I simply choose them. I thought I needed to go up because it's cheap, yeah, because they think everyone is poor around here eating, but I I say, oh, they would pay more and back then I didn't find it because it's like eating, you know, eating in your kitchen or it whatever, but then we know that everyone has this quick and easy and fast food is just watery good food what's the commercial the woman receives some food they send it to you and you say we don't have to cook anymore and it's like being freed from a scourge they were jumping and dancing we don't have to cook anymore he was one this is what happened to me phil when a commercial comes on tv i tune out but you watch them oh yeah i don't know i just don't know so I mean there are some in Among the experts, at least I keep up with what's going on in our culture, I mean, and by the way, capitalism is what makes it work.

It's like the guy who sent me a podcast note from a listener and said, can you? "Everyone just put all the ads in front so I can fast forward and just go to the podcast. I thought, 'Well, now they're the ones making sure we have a capitalism, you know, I think our sponsors won't.' Be happy about that now, obviously, food has been a big part of our family the whole time, which was interesting, we started with the jambalaya, but it was also a big part of what you see biblically, I mean, for many different reasons, certainly, I think Jason is right.

I think if you think about it in terms of

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ing someone, if you think about it in terms of knowing that you can

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Jesus with them or, like I said, in your case, even being discipled if you do it, if you organize it around a meal, plus it's just hospitality, yeah, you know, having people in your house that make a difference, I mean, it's just that the world needs more, our culture has. away from it, sure, I mean, there. It was a time when no one ate out, oh that's right, and then everyone ate out, it's funny, then the coronavirus hit, so you couldn't eat out, I'm sure they forced everyone back in, but I've read many stories. about families I just say, you know what, it was really good to learn how to cook because we had to not be able to go out to eat, so I think it might be something that opens the door, but I could do it, you know. brings people back, which is really cool, which would be cool, yeah, well, let's finish it guys, well, I was going to mention in John 12, where did it say that those sought the praise of men instead of the praise of God? because he was going to make a point uh where was that?

It was in John 12. I thought it was in John 12. I'm wrong, maybe you are. I know not. uh, no, that's in Juan. Where is? Well, verse 40 43, that's it, that's it, so what I was going to say is you know Jesus does this, they have this dinner and he praises Mary because she understood who the son of God is and that's why the response . you're like everything, it couldn't be going any better and these Pharisees look around and say we have to kill him and Lazarus, yeah, which is basically kill them all, kill them all, no, we don't like how this happened.

That poor Lazarus all he did was come back, you know, he just came back from the dead, he didn't even do anything, he's not even teaching these people, so Jesus gets to the last section of 12 and says, now You know who it is, quote. this uh isaiah where he says that he blinded their eyes and died in their hearts so that they couldn't see and you did a whole lesson on that and I think we should do a whole podcast on this because it's a very difficult thing for people to understand. . it's like, well, wait a minute, what is this thing that says that God is somehow keeping them, but there's a process that happens and at some point he says okay and stuff, but then he makes this statement because a lot of people , when you go back to the meal and not wanting to pay the money and make sacrifices or they don't want to present Jesus because out of fear or it's uncomfortable and look what it says in 42 it says but at the same time many of the leaders believed in him but for The Pharisees didn't confess their faith for fear of being kicked out of the synagogue because they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God, you know, and in my weird mind that's why I mention this a lot with food. of people don't want to hurt anyone's feelings and we have documented it well, they will eat bad food all their lives because some people seek praise so much and then the fear of conflict doesn't allow them to do that and here I think about all this, you know, Jesus has demonstrated, he does not intend to prove that he is the son of God and they would rather have their own people praise them than give in to this guy and although they really believe in him, one of those girls.

She said I've been a left-wing liberal like you've never seen She said Mr. Robinson I'm giving up everything I had given my life to Jesus She basically came in and said I'm going to walk away and it's for this type of People didn't confess their faith because afraid of being expelled, the whole group has an iron fist on them, you can't, it's our narrative or to hell with you, you see what I'm saying, so she was one. That says I'm giving up what I've been doing and I'm powerful. I have used this line many times in a mini one-on-one situation with pips.

I just can't make him happy or can I. I don't make her happy or I'm not happy and I always thought: when are you going to worry about making God happy? It's just not something we think about, but that's why I really like it, it made me feel good to watch it. About the other morning and when I saw them both, the mother and the daughter, and both giving up a false ideology and putting their faith in Jesus, I said where they were from and they said New York City, I said New York City. It's pretty amazing that they went that far to do that, yes, they went from New York to just north of Louisiana.

There have been others from many of them, some from New Jersey, others who come. Yes, I know it too. It's really cool, so make yourself a jambalaya and invite your neighbors, there you go, that's exactly right, learn how, thank you for listening to the podcast without shame, help us by rating us on iTunes and never miss an episode by subscribing on YouTube and be sure . to click that little bell to get notified about new episodes and for even more content you won't get anywhere else, subscribe to blaze tv at blazetv.com without shame