Sunday, May 04, 2008
My favorite meal in New Orleans was at Lüke, a brasserie serving French and German food. I got the poulet grand mère and it was sumptuous. It was herb roast chicken with jus naturel and bacon, string beans, oyster mushrooms, young beets, peeled asparagus, and the silkiest whipped potatoes I’ve ever had. I enjoyed every bite.
Friday, May 02, 2008
The first day of Dave’s conference, I stayed in the room most of the time, listening to my audio book and watching ships go by on the Mississippi River (that small ship on the left is pushing the long flat upriver) -
That night we ate at Morton’s Steakhouse, where I had the best filet mignon I’ve ever tasted -
Then it was to the French Quarter to hear our favorite brass band (I’ll put up a video I took tomorrow) -
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
As you can imagine, I have many photos to go through from New Orleans. It always takes me a couple hours to go through each photo in Picasa and play with the levels and saturation, choose those that are blogworthy, post those, and upload everything to Flickr. Since I don’t have time to get done in one sitting during the week, I thought I’d share a couple photos a day as a teaser. These two photos are pretty much representative of what we did our first night in the Crescent City (eat, walk, eat):
Oysters Round 1 (before I got grossed out - the big ones that did me in were three times the size of the one in the foreground) -
Beignet Heaven (picture of the best New Orleans snack pastry here) -
