Burgoo Throwdown?

So, Robin, what are you telling us? No high-technique, but rustic expressions are to be our aim, I guess. I'm sure you guys will hammer out all the details! I'll just stop brainstorming my goofy little ways to be creative with it!


Let's get down on some burgoo!

I do want to emphasize right up front that this regional dish is properly pronounced

BUR-goo

and not the pretentious, frenchified

Ber-GEW

Feh!

We will also avoid studying too closely the kinship between burgoo and Brunswick stew, which is probably the ancestor of our confection, if the truth be told.

i was just reading up on this Robin......

and i am pretty sure that i am pronouncing it wrong.......

all these squirrel, possum, and raccoon comments have me wondering if they are really jokes or not......lol

This transplanted Latina is scratching her head..... but heck we have menudo. It sounds as if the history of burgoo is set in the same type of familial, community preparation as menudo is for Latinos.

i am enjoying reading up and learning about it.

[Robin Garr]

So, Robin, what are you telling us? No high-technique, but rustic expressions are to be our aim, I guess...

Don't read between the lines! What I wrote is what I meant. It drives me crazy when people say "Ber-GEW"!

That is all ...

To be serious, though, I don't think it matters whether Burgoovers (Burgoovians?) go with tradition or modernism or even fusion. Past contests have gone both ways ... creativity was rewarded in the BLT throwdown, but tradition was honored, as I recall, in Shrimp & Grits and Chicken and Dumplings. Am I remembering right?

i go to sign in so i can make a post and i type in andrew burgoo. i am telling you that burgoo takes over your brain, if you start thinking about it!!! b.t.w. folks... i am not a hunter, but i do know there is an official squirrel hunting season, and it is not now. no way would you put possum in there ( don't think there is a possum hunting season, thank god), if they taste anything like they look...Yuk
i will tell you that i am so excited about this that i will even divulge my secret ingredient... Yeti...not the locally grown sasquatch or big foot, but the exotic type from the himalaya's.
if you need a location, i will gladly donate baxter station for a sunday, or monday night event.
if we think the event will "blow up", we can do it outside and get a permit to close cooper st from payne to hull.
andrew

So, Robin, what are you telling us? No high-technique, but rustic expressions are to be our aim, I guess...

Don't read between the lines! What I wrote is what I meant. It drives me crazy when people say "Ber-GEW"!

That is all ...

To be serious, though, I don't think it matters whether Burgoovers (Burgoovians?) go with tradition or modernism or even fusion. Past contests have gone both ways ... creativity was rewarded in the BLT throwdown, but tradition was honored, as I recall, in Shrimp & Grits and Chicken and Dumplings. Am I remembering right?

You certainly are! I'd just hate to spend money and time on something that wouldn't be well-recieved or that was disqualified or elements removed because I was having fun. That happened to me at last years 4 Roses Julep Contest and it kinda bummed me out cause the concept kinda revolved around it.

Shoot, you know me- I honestly could care less win or lose- I just get dissapointed when the whole idea doesn't get communicated...

i go to sign in so i can make a post and i type in andrew burgoo. i am telling you that burgoo takes over your brain, if you start thinking about it!!! b.t.w. folks... i am not a hunter, but i do know there is an official squirrel hunting season, and it is not now. no way would you put possum in there ( don't think there is a possum hunting season, thank god), if they taste anything like they look...Yuk
i will tell you that i am so excited about this that i will even divulge my secret ingredient... Yeti...not the locally grown sasquatch or big foot, but the exotic type from the himalaya's.
if you need a location, i will gladly donate baxter station for a sunday, or monday night event.
if we think the event will "blow up", we can do it outside and get a permit to close cooper st from payne to hull.
andrew

That's a great and generous offer, Andrew! Only issue I see is not making this into a big deal as it'll take too long to implement- Burgoo doesn't sound nearly as good in 90 degree heat in June.


Deb

all these squirrel, possum, and raccoon comments have me wondering if they are really jokes or not......lol

No jokes. Folks used whatever was available.

all these squirrel, possum, and raccoon comments have me wondering if they are really jokes or not......lol

No jokes. Folks used whatever was available.

Becky,
I agree - I have an Eastern Kentucky ( family) recipe that calls for squirrel. My husband says that back-home it's mandatory to have "something gamey" in there ( squirrel, possum or deer...)

Deb

. no way would you put possum in there ( don't think there is a possum hunting season, thank god), if they taste anything like they look...
andrew

Actually they are pretty good if done right.

may 23rd or 24th
may 30th or 31st
probably much easier to do a sunday date (23 / 30) if a street closing is involved.
may not get that big, but, who knows??? restaurant people rally for the strangest of things...
if it can be a charitable thing, i would suggest gilda's club or the kentuckiana girl scouts. both of them are within 1.5 miles of baxter station.
lets do it. don't think that it is im-possum-able to pull off. those dates are more than four weeks off, so we aren't trying to beat press deadlines by a hare. we just have to do it, can't be chickens, or might as well just put a pork in it.... okay i will stop. sorry for being so corny, peas excuse me.
a

I think May 30th & 31st is out since it is Memorial weekend. The week before sounds great!
Mark & I were thinking about proceeds going to Organ Transplant since it is so near & dear to our hearts because of our daughter!

P.S. - Andrew, Baxter Station would be an awesome venue. Thanks!

Mark & I were thinking about proceeds going to Organ Transplant since it is so near & dear to our hearts because of our daughter!

I second this emotion.

i am happy with that choice as well, having trgically lost 2 staff members in the past three years. their passing is made bearable by the many gifts they and their families gave to other people...
a

My suggestions about the throwdown are charging a canned good or non-perishable food item for addmission, to be donated to Kentucky Harvest. In this way more people on the forum could enjoy each others company while donating to a very worthwhile organization. I would also like to have a panel of "celebrity" judges for best of show and a foodies choice award. As for what the winners receive, I don't know, maybe a shout-out on the forum or the satisfaction of talking smack at the next foodie get together. I think that we should have a minimum of ten participants in the throwdown, but twenty or so would be fantastic. Dates I have been kicking around are Sun. May 23 or maybe Sun. June 6, The Sunday in between is Memorial Day Weekend and that might not be a good one, but I don't know. Let me know and lets get it on.

Dates I have been kicking around are Sun. May 23 or maybe Sun. June 6, The Sunday in between is Memorial Day Weekend and that might not be a good one, but I don't know. Let me know and lets get it on.

June 6th would allow a little more of a planning window.