Frank's Place New Orleans Gumbo Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 cups Chopped onions
• 1 cups Chopped celery
• 1 cups Chopped green bell pepper
• 2 Cloves garlic, minced
• ¼ cups Butter or margarine
• ¼ cups Flour, all-purpose
• Salt to taste
• Pepper to taste
• 1 ds Tabasco sauce
• 5 Bay leaves
• 1 can Tomatoes, drained(16oz)
• 1 cups Tomato juice
• 5 cups Hot water
• 3 cups Shrimp, shelled/deveined
• 6 Small hard-shell crabs
• 24 Shucked oysters
• 1 lb Okra,chopped
• 3 cups Hot cooked rice
• Chopped fresh parsley