Subj : Nawlins was: Ale - 8 was: [1] To : Dave Drum From : Ruth Haffly Date : Tue Mar 28 2023 12:17:40 Hi Dave, RH> Probably a rack thing that you drape the bacon over? I could never see RH> the sense of that one either. DD> That's wot I sayed, wasn't it? RH> That's what I deduced without looking up the https. (G) DD> Wasn't too difficult, I hope, with a clew like " DD> I also had one of DD> the "racks" " Bv)= Yes, but racks can be flat or standing. RH> Maybe a combination of ginger and caffiene? I gave Nancy a can of it RH> when she came down for the picnic we hosted in 2019; I don't think it RH> had enough ginger for her tastes. (G) DD> The most ginger taste I get is from Vernor's Ginger Soda - the oldest DD> bottled/cannded soft drink in Continental North America. As some of DD> the adverts may tell you - it's ginger *soda* not ale or beer. I've had that from time to time but probably the ginger ale I've had most often has been Canada Dry. DD> Was that an Echo Picnic? Did I sleep through one? RH> That was the last official one. Out of town attendees were Nancy, RH> Michael, Dale & Gail and Mark Lewis. Haven't heard much out of Mark RH> these days, hopefully it's work keeping him busy. DD> I seem to have totally spaced it. What year was that? I really miss DD> Nancy. She was a tough Scrabble opponent. Made me sprain my brain a DD> couple times trying to best her move(s). That was September, 2019. I miss her too, especially when we go up to NY to see Steve's family. We usually met up with her and Richard at their favorite sushi place for a meal. Steve and I still stop there, if possible, when we're in the area--missed seeing Richard by one day on one visit. DD> Title: Alligator Sauce Piquante - Picnic DD> Categories: Loo, Exotics, Reptile DD> Yield: 2 Servings RH> Back in 2012 Steve and I were delegates to the Southern Baptist RH> Convention's Annual Meeting, held in NOLA. He ordered allegator "bites" RH> one night for supper; got a generous portion of breaded/fried allegator RH> pieces. While they were hot they were pretty good; after they cooled RH> off they were rather rubbery. I don't think we'll ever order them RH> again, but we can say that we've tried it. The next night we went to a RH> place called Mother's for supper and I had probably the best boiled RH> shrimp I've ever had, and an even more generous portion than Steve's RH> alligator. He had to help me finish them. (G) DD> Never got to Mother's - which is a well known .... famous really, DD> place in Restaurant Row. I was going to try one of the places on DD> Restaurant DD> Row ,,, Dooky Chase's, IIRC, but the prices made my throat slam shut. That was our splurge meal and yet, not as much as it could have been. We walked from our hotel, passed one of John Besh's places en route. The menu was posted on the door--we could have maybe afforded an appetiser there but had a whole meal at Mother's. DD> One the the best breakfast's I ever had was in a little DD> hole-in-hte-wall joint on Jefferson Highway near where I was DD> delivering bottles. I spent overnight in their (Sazerac's) parking lot DD> and woke up hungry. So, I DD> dropped my trailer and took the tractor down the street looking for an DD> open place to get a bite. Around the corner I happened upon a place DD> with a parking spot for my behemoth semi-tractor at the curb. So, in I DD> went. The chatter stopped and it got awfully quiet. I was the only DD> pale-face DD> in the joint. The lady behind the counter asked "Do you know where you DD> are?" DD> To which I replied "Sign out front says 'CAFE'. Can I get a meal DD> here?" DD> She grinned and said, "You all right. Whatchou gonna have?". Sometimes those are the best places. In Savannah we were sometimes the only gringos in a Mexican place, also been the only round eye in our favorite Korean place in HI. A little place like you described was in Wake Forest when we came up to visit--had a good meal there. We moved up and the place had closed--reopened a couple of years later as our (now) favorite ice cream shop. --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... History repeats itself because nobody listens ... --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .