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The glory of the noodle.

Posted in Uncategorized on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s been a deplorably long time since my double feature at Martinique (dinner two nights in a row! Would you believe?), but anyway. All I’ll say now is that I had some really fabulous gnocchi that prompted the thought: what does gnocchi translate to in Italian? I had heard that it came from the Italian [...]

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FLUFFY LUV PATTIES…

Posted in chocolate, dessert, musings on January 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »

…or the greatest chocolate chip cookies known to mankind. How many people can honestly say that they themselves created the best chocolate chip cookie they’ve ever tasted? I am a lucky girl indeed. Jenna and I make these whenever we’re together. They are so called because, well, they are chewy and perfectly fluffy (which is [...]

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St. James, and an overload on hyperlinks

Posted in cheese, lunch, musings, New Orleans, St. James Cheese Company on January 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I really don’t need to write yet another blog entry about either this place or this sandwich, considering the relative frequency at which they appear in my thoughts and in my writing (also here) So a picture (or a few) will have to suffice, courtesy of the fantastic and utterly adorable digital camera that was [...]

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Not so crabby

Posted in lunch, New Orleans, sandwiches, seafood on January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

One would think that a restaurant called Crabby Jack’s would at the very least have one fried softshell crab po-boy to offer me in my dire hunger. I found no such luck when Mom and I walked into the charmingly squat little shack on Jefferson Highway, which is not to say that I didn’t have [...]

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