{"id":3540,"date":"2026-05-15T15:51:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:13:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:13:51","slug":"vegetarian-jambalaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/?p=3540","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarian &#8220;Jambalaya&#8221; ??"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ummm no,  I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any such thing as vegetarian jambalaya.  So for all youse purists out there, please don&#8217;t spit on the screen when I tell you that I made a dish that I&#8217;m calling Vegetarian &#8220;Jambalaya.&#8221;  See how I did that?? I put &#8220;Jambalaya&#8221; in quotes because it&#8217;s make-a-believe Jambalaya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ha ha!!  I laugh now!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You see, it&#8217;s like this:  Mike, my brother from another mother, has been kind enough to do my taxes for the last several years.  He refuses to take any money for this huge favor, so when I ask &#8220;What would you like in return for doing taxes this year?&#8221; the response often involves food.  That&#8217;s very OK with me&#8230; I <strong><em>really <\/em><\/strong>like food.  So this year, he requested jambalaya; and last weekend on Mothers Day I finally got off my hiney and made up a batch of Shrimp and Sausage Jambalaya from a recipe I downloaded about 16 years ago.  Because I love each and every one of youse, you can click on the image below and go to Emeril&#8217;s site for some nice carnivorous jambalaya ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emerils.com\/search\/site\/jambalaya\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" src=\"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Plate-with-fork-and-spoon.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3548\" style=\"width:83px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Plate-with-fork-and-spoon.png 512w, http:\/\/kakahead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Plate-with-fork-and-spoon-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/kakahead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Plate-with-fork-and-spoon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well boys and girls, you may well ask, &#8220;So what&#8217;s up with this Vegetarian &#8216;Jambalaya&#8217; stuff??  Anyhow??&#8221;  Well you see, it&#8217;s like this:  my amazing partner Debi and I each lost our spouses at different times together.  Neither of us wanted to remain alone for our last years, so we went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourtime.com\">www.ourtime.com<\/a> in search for a possible companion.  After thorough interrogation (a week&#8217;s worth of multi-hour phone calls), we checked every box we could think of and decided we&#8217;d go ahead and meet in person.  During one of the calls, she said, &#8220;I need to tell you something about myself that you might not like.&#8221;  My brain said &#8220;Uh-oh,&#8221; but my mouth said, &#8220;What&#8217;s that??&#8221;  &#8220;I&#8217;m a vegetarian,&#8221; she replied.  My response:  &#8220;Oh!!  No worries, my wife and I were vegetarian for several years.  I know how to do that.&#8221;  She was relieved to know that I also like to cook, because she does <em><strong>not<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I made the &#8220;meat lover&#8217;s&#8221; jambalaya for our Mothers Day gathering, it came out pretty darn good. Complemented it with a nice salad.  Wasn&#8217;t sure if the grandsons would go for jambalaya, so I also made pizza&#8230; one with meat and one without. Just wanted to make sure that nobody, including Debi, was left wanting. So then I says to myself, &#8220;Hey you with the face!! I bet you could make some jambalaya without meat!!&#8221; And by golly I did, and it tasted pretty darn good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortunately for me, Debi is vegetarian, but not vegan.  Otherwise I&#8217;d have to get me some new cookbooks!!  For those who don&#8217;t know, that means she <strong><em>will<\/em><\/strong> eat eggs and dairy products.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And again, because I love each and every one of youse, please click on the image below if you&#8217;d like to have my recipe for Vegetarian &#8220;Jambalaya&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Vegetarian-Jambalaya.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Veggies.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3559\" style=\"width:96px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Veggies.png 1024w, http:\/\/kakahead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Veggies-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/kakahead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Veggies-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/kakahead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Veggies-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well I hope you try some jambalaya some time, whether it&#8217;s carnivorous or vegetarian.  But regarding vegetables, if any of them are suspected of committing a crime, just remember that the mice are probably to blame.  If you don&#8217;t believe me, just watch this very informative cartoon!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Fresh Vegetable Mystery COLOR CLASSIC\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z7v--qASMM8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ummm no, I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any such thing as vegetarian jambalaya. So for all youse purists out there, please don&#8217;t spit on the screen when I tell you that I made a dish that I&#8217;m calling Vegetarian &#8220;Jambalaya.&#8221; See &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/?p=3540\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garbentrybe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3567,"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions\/3567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}