Click here for more menu ideas! Our long-awaited trip to New Orleans is this week. Yay!Monday:I cooked a big ham this weekend. I’ll freeze the bone and part of the meat but that is why it is featured so heavily this week. grilled ham and cheese sandwiches homemade tomato soup Tuesday: homemade ham and potato…
Guest Post Friday ~ Bananas Foster
Bananas Foster a guest post by Frank Maier This is definitely an old family favorite. I’ve even prepared it on a one-burner camp stove in the middle of nowhere. I guess it’s mostly a dessert, although it’s also a fine breakfast/brunch offering, especially with champagne or a champagne-based drink, like mimosa or Kir Royale (one…
Menu Monday ~ April 7, 2014
Click here for more menu ideas! David and I leave for New Orleans Thursday morning and I couldn’t be more excited about that! I’m going to be very busy getting ready so meals will be easy and focus on using up perishables. Monday: I have leftover roast beef which needs to be used, as well…
Guest Post Friday ~ Crawfish Bisque
I didn’t have a guest post for today until my friend, Frank, posted about this on Facebook and tagged me in the comments. He posted the recipe on his own blog, Singularity, today but graciously gave me permission to share it here, as well. After you read this, go check out his blog and give…
Guest Post Friday ~ Stuffed Crab
Stuffed Crab aka “La Chair de Crabe a la Creole” By Frank Maier Here’s one from my New Orleans roots. We ate this frequently when I was a kid, especially during Lent. Typically it was a second-day offering after a crab boil if we didn’t eat all the crabs that were boiled. This is a…
Life is still good in New Orleans
Just a quick update: We arrived in New Orleans Friday afternoon and have been going strong ever since. Music, food, and friends…yes, life is still good here. Today we have three music shows to catch – Rhythm and Rain, Debi and the Deacons, and Mark and the Pentones. It’s good to have such talented friends…
Eating our way around New Orleans
There won’t be a menu this week because we are in New Orleans. We arrived Friday afternoon and so far we have had the following meals: Friday: Appetizer at Margaritaville: chili cheese fries (We hadn’t eaten anything except a breakfast biscuit on our way out of town and we were meeting up with…
Missing New Orleans…
There are many things I’ll miss about New Orleans but the abundance of fresh seafood is certainly in the top five. Raw oysters Grilled fish with crabmeat dressing topped with jumbo lump crabmeat and Hollandaise sauce
Menu Monday ~ April 8, 2013
Click here or here for more menu ideas! David left last night and will be in Houston this week for his annual managers meeting. I’ll be flying down to meet him on Thursday evening and then we’ll drive from there to New Orleans on Friday for 10 days. Yay! Since I don’t have anyone else…