MIREPOIX is an Honoring to the humble Aromatic Holy Trinity that is the Sister of the Roux Holy Trinity of Cajun Cooking...Read, enjoy this, and cook this...you'll find this simple mix of vegetables to be the heart of much of your Cajun cooking....

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  Kat Everitt

  MIREPOIX
  
  A MIREPOIX is pronounced somewhat like Meer-PWAH in Cajun and is made of celery root (or celery or celeriac), onions, and carrots...Raw, roasted or sauteed with butter and olive oil, it's the flavor base for many stocks, soups, stews and sauces. Mirepoix is sometimes called the aromatics...just like The Holy Trinity, that is the vegetable base for Roux, of onions, green peppers, and celery, Mirepoix is essential to cajun cooking....there, that is the dry truth of the matter...but there are so many dishes you use Mirepoix within! And, if one has trouble digesting peppers of any kind, Mirepoix is an acceptable replacement in Roux....
  
  Saute the carefully small-diced vegetables up in a ration of half onions, a quarter carrots, and a quarter celery root, celery, or celeriac, in olive oil and butter until shiny and translucent almost...at this point, add the vegetables to the oil and four mixture in a hot saucepan. stir together, and then add water, or water and meat, or chicken or beef stock, cupful by cupful, until you reach the right consistency for the soup or stew or sauce....
  
  It is so surprising how much these simple vegetables add to any dishes of any culture, really...I've used Roux Holy Trinity or the Mirepoix Holy Trinity of vegetables over and over again, and every dish has been so much more fragrant and tasty and savory and delicious with their use - no matter what other meats, vegetables, and spices are added along with them...
  
  Spices used with Mirepoix are usually Cajun herbs and ground roots and spices, such as File' (sassafras); Garlic; Celery Salt; Cumin; Marjoram; Black Pepper, and Red Pepper Flakes....all to taste...based on the dish being prepared....
  
  here's the Poem for Humble Mirepoix...
  
  MIREPOIX
  
  In all humility, the poor and rich alike
  Digest complexity Mirepoix
  Mirepoix and bless the Vegetables of

  The Holy Trinities
  The Onions red and white and yellow through
  The Carrots earthy reds and oranges rich and fine
  The Celery Root as close a peasant as dirt knows
  The Peppers Children of the Sun's own heats and warmth
  Cut fine and free to throw their aromatics to the oils
  Fill the foods with earth and rain and soil and savory