It Only Hurts When I Blog

Greetings, TGIF-ers!

It's Friday AGAIN! Do you think that might happen, er - once a week or so???

Charlie and I are going out with SY and TY to a 'backwoods' cajun place tonight - a little hole in the wall place in Santa Fe, TN (it's pronounced 'Santa Fee', by the way).

I'm going to leave work an hour early so we won't be too late, and can get a seat.

Make way for the red beans and rice, jambalaya and etouffee (and gumbo and crawfish etc. etc.).

In New Orleans, there are hotdog stands everywhere that are shaped like a hotdog, and say 'Lucky Dog' on them. If you don't have much money and can't afford the wonderful cajun food - you go there for some 'Lucky Dog etouffee' - which is just a hotdog. It's a JOKE.

On one trip to New Orleans, Charlie and I were on a Mississippi river cruise, and there was a cajun buffet dinner (not great, but acceptable).

The buffet server refused to put my etouffee on top of my jambalaya (where I had indicated I wanted it) - because it just isn't eaten that way. I let the server put it NEXT to the jambalaya, and I then I mixed it myself. Hey - some foods need to be over RICE, in my opinion.

And then there was a trip to New Orleans with 'da gals' from work - we hardly had cajun food unless you want to count Popeye's fried chicken (which I love dearly). I did get gumbo and a lot of pralines!

Quote of the Day: In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted. Mario Batali

Well, Mario (from the food channel - you know, 'Multo Mario'), mediocrity exists on all the tourist-throughput lunch and dinner cruisers, unfortunately! Don't know about now, after the hurricane and all.

GOTTA GO! Have a great Friday and a great weekend! Bayou-all! (Bye, you all!)