Hen of the Woods Mushrooms and Grits with Mustard Greens Persillade and some other sauce I forget (so good, the grits were a thicker grind and just great):
That’s how they serve them down here. Best to wear a white shirt when you eat them, because whatever you’re wearing will end up with powdered sugar all over it no matter how careful you think you’re being!
Ya, there is powdered sugar everywhere. I always make a dad joke (I’m not a dad or that old but Scarface…) about Tony Montana owning the joint. At first, I cared about not getting too much on me, but as @ BoneAppetite says, at some point I stopped caring cause everyone just knows you went there.
Visited my best friends from college who were in NO at the time. Can confirm that Cafe du Monde’s beignets come equipped with Dark Clothes Seeking Powered Sugar. Even if you carefully knock off most of it as soon as you take a bite there’s an explosion of it.
That’s all the photos I have from this trip. Went to Verti Marte one late late night. Got a few things. Wish we had anything close to that here open all hours.
Great food, great trip, can’t wait for the next one.
I’m not the person who posted that assertion but I agree with it. Crawfish Monica is pasta with cream sauce and some crawfish in it. It’s good, because how can pasta with cream sauce NOT be good, but Jazz Fest crawfish strudel is good on another level. It’s as oily as a Gulf beach after a BP spill, but somehow that’s a positive. The crawfish-cheese filling arrives in your mouth at a temperature just shy of molten lava, but somehow you manage to eat the whole thing in less than five minutes. The pastry is super flaky and delicious. It is just supremely satisfying, wildly unhealthy, and exactly what you want to eat.
