Murphster Finds Good Eats in The Big Easy!

Hi friends...now about the food in New Orleans, LA! Jen is in food heaven here. The VERY first thing she had to have was a fresh crawfish boiled dinner! That consists of seasoned "craYfish" (is what we call them back home), corn on the cob and whole potatoes...all boiled together with southern cajun spices. Boy, I must admit it seemed a little strange seeing all those little critters but wow, were they tasty! The south is as proud of their crawfish as we are up north of our lobsters.

   Next on Jen's list was Saturday morning downtown at the most popular coffee cafe in the city called "Cafe du Monde"...no trip is complete to NOLA for tourists without a stop here to try their famous french doughnuts called "beignets"! (Have any of you watched the Disney movie "The Princess & The Frog"? The Princess' character works as a waitress but dreams of opening her own restaurant to make these beautiful powdered sugared fritters!) 

Well, the 25 minute wait in line for a table was worth it! They were delicious! All they serve at the cafe is beignets, coffee & cold drinks...that's ALL so service was fast!! There was a jazz band playing right out in front of our outdoor patio seats so it was so enjoyable to sit a while!

   For lunch on Saturday, Jen had gumbo on her mind! It's a spicy soup with rice and shrimp & sausage! Again, we ate outside and she was happy with her gumbo.  

Murph gumbo & more gumbo

Supper...yup...outside again for MORE gumbo and also fried catfish & boiled shrimp with a cream sauce we'd never seen before and can only dream of having again until going back to NOLA, it was THAT good!

   Sunday was a sandwich they call a po'boy, which is like our grinders or subs up north, you can pick what you want for meat and the bread is a crusty french bread kind of a roll. Jen chose more catfish as her filling in her po'boy. Jen fell in love with Louisiana catfish this past fall when she was up in northern LA at the tv show's Duck Dynasty Diner where she had jambalaya which is a southern rice dish. So Sunday, we ended with MORE beignets where we happened upon a mini storefront Cafe du Monde on our riverwalk, they made all of us very happy...plus we only had to wait 5 minutes there instead of 25!

  Don't be surprised if I'm a little bit bigger when you see me next because I'm certainly eating good on the road!

Your friend that is stuffed in more than 1 way,
Murphster :)