Artis' Chicken Gumbo

Ingredients:

• 3 pounds stewing chicken
• 1 large onion
• 4 shallots -- or green onins
• 20 stems parsley
• 2 cloves garlic -- more w/out sausage
• 1/2 medium green pepper
• 4 bay leaves
• 1 lg. spoon flour
• 1/2 lg. spoon oil or chicken fat -- for roux
• 1 pound andouille sausage -- or ham
• 1 pint oysters -- with liquid
• salt and pepper
• file powder

Preparation:

• Cut up chicken and season with salt and pepper.
• Fry chicken until brown, in its own fat, in a black iron pot.
• Place in soup pot.
• Cut up seasonings .
• Pour off fat from pot.
• Smother seasonings and take out by rinsing with small amount of water, putting in soup pot with b rice.