Highlights in New Orleans:
Fantastic dinner at Cochon restaurant:
- Salad: sliced mushroom, mint, fried cured beef, sliced onion and fried lemon.
- Sausage: pork/rice boudin with buttery gravy and pickled peppers.
- Casseroles: Eggplant and shrimp; crawfish with bernaise.
- Dumplings: rabbit with winey stew broth.
- Dessert: rich, corn-mealy pineapple upside down cake.
- Post-prandial: Catdaddy Carolina Moonshine (sweet with strong vanilla and cinnamon flavors).
Consider the following:
- Beignets at Cafe du Monde are the same as Zeppoles at San Gennaro Feast on Mulberry St in NYC?
- Beignets at Cafe du Monde could be improved if they were dipped in honey and sprinkled with cinnamon and relabeled "loukemades"?
- "Po' Boys" are the same as "Hoagies," which is fine, though it takes away some of the mystery, at least for us Northeasterners?
We were also suckers for the Community and Cafe du Monde coffee. It's a really dark brew and a bit richer (almost chocolaty?) with the chicory.
2 comments:
the photo in front of the cathedral looks like Disney world
I wish I had known you were going. There are a couple of other musts: Jacquimo's (best Creole food in town) and Ralph's on the Park (the most refined Cajun food I've had to date).
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