Artis' Chicken Gumbo

3 lb stewing chicken

1 lg onion

4 shallots -- or green onins

20 stems parsley

2 cloves garlic -- more w/out

: sausage 1/2 md green pepper

4 bay leaves

1 tb flour

1/2 tb oil or chicken fat -- for

: roux 1 lb andouille sausage -- or ham

1 pt oysters -- with liquid

: salt and pepper : file powder 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. Recipe By : DDMmom/AOL -----