The most savory part of New Orleans was the food. This was my feast of friends:
Sunday; Soft Shell Crab Po Boy at Parasols I wasn’t all that hungry, airplane rides fuck my appetite up, it was good though. Then they suggested cafe ole and beignents at Cafe du Mond as a way for me to see the city or at least Jefferson and St. Charles ave at night, and I love coffee so I was all the way in on this plan!
Monday: My first real day in New Orleans the french quarter so for lunch we went to Krystals for Cheese burger sliders which are like White Castles but better. For dinner they explained to me that back in the day Sunday was the day for laundry and usually they would make Red beans and rice cause it was easy and simple, just let the beans boil all day while doing laundry and by the end of the day it was ready so in homage to that they made me homemade red beans and rice that was so dank it almost hurt.
Tuesday: Double cheese burger with chili on rye at Chameleon Cafe, a great joint good food, great environment..
Wednesday: Made Pizza for my cousin’s
Thursday: I have no recollection of anything going on this day but maybe pinball and some reading..
Friday: Had lunch and dinner at the New Orleans Gumbo shop; Lunch Blacken Chicken salad. Dinner Chicken gumbo… so fucking good!.. Funny story my cousin and I were walking around the quarter and decided to get lunch, so he takes me here and says “shh Meir (short for Meredeth) loves this place and wants to come here for dinner so if we do act like you’ve never been here”. So I agree and we go about lunch and carry on with the day til we meet up with her and she suggests getting food, at The Gumbo Shop, but doesn’t remember where it is, right next door to the shop is a place called Flirty Girl, we had stopped in before getting food so I could get my girlfriend something, so I mention that its next door there cause my cousin told me how much she loved it, Meir believed this, so we go in to the restaurant and its the same waitress from lunch. My cousin is walking in front of me and his fiance, I was showing her the elephant bangles I got my girlfriend. Any ways he being in front indicates to the waitress that we have not been here before and she plays along, giving me a wink as we take the seats we had for lunch, in the moments of deciding what to order, we all knew the gumbo, my cousin brings up the Blacken Chicken Salad, “I hear its deeeviinne” His fiance just kinda looks at him like hes crazy (the same way she dose all the time) and suggests He order it, but we all order the gumbo and half way through he mentions “Oh I shouldn’t have had so much earlier, I can make room!” then we told her about lunch and we finished our dinner had a second helping of the bread pudding (sooo fucking good) we had also had had that at lunch, then proceeded to go get more cafe ole and beingents at Cafe du Mond.
Saturday: We where spouses to go to a crayfish boil but due to the weather was postponed til next year so we went to Saucy Barbeque somewhere in Jefferson, it too was delicious there Beef ribs where high and far out on flavor!
Sunday: After a long day of sunbathing and watching them garden being it was the nicest day in New Orleans, well technically Jefferson, we went back to Parasols to get some more Po Boys this time I had a spicy sausage.
Monday: For lunch went to Chicken and Watermelon off Claiborn, got a 20 piece of wings, he was kinda reluctant to go at first but then I asked where his will to be weird was and then we went. He and I where the only white people in the place, it was my first time experiencing being in a place where I was the one of two white people, this sounds silly but its true, in Washington Ive never experienced that before.. And for dinner I made pizza for them again.
Tuesday: My last meal in Jefferson Louisiana was a burger from some joint that barbeques their burgers for fast food, it was probably the best fast food burger I’ve ever had.. If I lived down their for even six months I would probably eat meals my body weight every day and develop diabetes. Fucking hell over every thing I enjoyed about Jefferson/New Orleans, the music, the architecture, the history, the corruption, I absolutely love the food.