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Archive for August, 2008

Diversion at its finest

Posted in New Orleans on August 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »

As excerpted from a Chris Rose article about the one, the only Jazz Fest:Every day, I walk in the Fair Grounds with a stock and steady plan and a vow to follow it. And maybe I’ll catch Susan Cowsill as scheduled at 11:20 Friday but then it will all fall apart, it always does. At [...]

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A while back,

Posted in Lilette, New Orleans, beef, beets, chicken, crab, dinner, passionfruit butter, perfection, ribs, salad, soup on August 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I went for a mother-daughter double date with my best friend to a beloved restaurant with which you’ll quickly become acquainted if you have any plans of reading these blogs even just fairly religiously: Lilette. The ambiance is that of a clean, happening Parisian bistro; the feeling is very clean — the main restaurant is [...]

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If only all breakfasts could be like this

Posted in breakfast, chocolate, snack on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Heath toffee crumbles in a ramekin with melted semisweet chocolate chips are sinfully good and dangerously simple. It’s warm, it’s decadent, and you can eat it with a spoon. Molten oozing scrumptiousness — how could you find any better way to start the day?

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Good things come in small, wax-paper envelopes…

Posted in New Orleans, bud's broiler, burgers, sandwiches on August 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »

We decided yesterday afternoon to evacuate early for Tropical Storm Gustav — worst case scenario, we beat the evacuation traffic and aren’t on the road for 10 hours like we were during Katrina; best case scenario, we’ve got a four- or five-day holiday. Now, we’ve been approaching this optimistically, but we all know what happened [...]

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Passionfruit butter.

Posted in passionfruit butter on August 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Passionfruit. Exotic, sweet, aromatic, juicy, with a surprising punchy tartness that gives you afterglow. Butter. Indulgent, rich, warm, inviting. Homey. Familiar. Luxurious. Everything’s better with butter. The culmination of the two is unexpected, golden-yellow, and has a million nuances of flavor. Nectar of the gods? Maybe a variation. It’s silky, simultaneously sweet and savory, the [...]

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