Two of the Fore!Kids fleurs have been stolen. Who would do this? These fleurs were done for charity. For children. One was Lorainne Gendron’s sculpture taken from Washington Artillery Park (Pete and I didn’t get its picture yet), and the other sculpture was done by Clifton Faust and Aisha Patrice and was located outside of [...]
Food Network’s Dave Lieberman is traveling around the country in search of “real food.” And there’s one dish that comes to mind as being (possibly) a unique New Orleans real food to me: Brociolone. I had never heard of this dish growing up. When I was dating my husband, I did what any self-respecting woman [...]
Crazy Hip Blog Mamas have a collaboration blog going about childhood dreams. My dreams did come true, sort of, but they sure took a circuitous route. When I was a child, my parents let me and my siblings be children. They didn’t pressure us to do well in school or to really prepare for our [...]
My dinner last night at Galatoire’s did not disappoint. As I sipped my very strong Old Fashioned, the waiter passed fried eggplant and souffle potatoes. Then we sat down to appetizers of Galatoire grand goute (shrimp two ways and a lump crabmeat dish) and fried oysters in brochette. This was followed by the salad maison [...]
Since having Sun, I have checked my work voicemail and e-mail every day. And the benefit of this contact finally arrived: the invitation for the attorneys to have dinner with the summer clerks. At Galatoire’s. Tonight. One hour of drinks and hors d’oeuvres followed by dinner. Ahhhh. To say that I am looking forward to [...]
I have found that I am singing a song to Sun that has become her own. I have made my own lyrics to an Elton John song. Here’s my lyrics: Sweet little Sunnie Sweet little Sunnie indeed All that we wish for you is a lifetime of sweetness and peace. Ohhh Cute, huh? Is it [...]