As promised I said I would divulge how my trip to New Orleans went. In short it was Fantastic! The food, the people, the Jazz, the arts, the Food! Did I mention the Food?
Here are a few tips on what you do when you visit New Orleans. First off, stay in a central location so that you can walk to everywhere. I stayed at the Hilton Hotel on the Riverwalk. It is attached to the shopping malls which was good and not so good.
Now these pictures were taken with my phone so its not the best quality.
Café Du Monte is a must for beignets and their coffees. One of their Cafe’s are also attached to the hotel in the shopping area.
This is the machine cutting the beignets.
Here he is cleaning up the edges for the fryer.
Here are my beignets…you get three with an order. I ate one obviously…it was hot and covered with all that white powdered sugar and I washed it down with an Ice cold coffee!
For Dinner the Redfish Grill is delicious. It is a seafood restaurant and what better place to get fresh seafood than New Orleans! The Alligator and seafood gumbo was to die for!
RFG House salad.
Alligator and seafood gumbo.
Hurricane drink at RedFish Grill
Catfish at Redfish Grill
Redfish with crabmeat.
The grouper
The snapper
Arnaud’s is another great restaurant to visit. This is more on the pricey side but well worth the money.
I had the best red snapper and crabmeat here. You can look for this recipe soon.
Snapper with jumbo lump crab meat.
This was quail…it was super delicious.
This was the house salad.
Creole Shrimp.
And lastly A snow cone covered with condensed milk. There is no other way to eat a snow cone. It has to be covered in condensed milk.
That was just the food scene!
Bourbon street was the party street, though I would proceed with caution…the things you see on that street! It was dirty and there were so many homeless people.
Frenchman street was more classier and not as bad and they played great jazz music.
For tours, I did the cemetery tour, I got to see Lauryn Hill perform at the Jazz festival and Stevie Wonder at the airport! How cool was that! I also did a hop on hop off tour…total waste of money.
Great trip.
For todays recipe I did Callaloo with King Crab Legs! This is on eof Trinidad’s most popular dishes.
Click here for Callaloo with King Crab Legs recipe.
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Yes you are correct Henry! Unless you have dasheen bush that melts on its own.
Hmm like the idea of this dish. I think I may try this dish tomorrow for my Dinner Date. Have some full can of canned Crab been sitting in my Refrigerator and some Calbasa Pumpkin in my Freezer. I may use a few pieces of King Crab, but add some seafood chunks of fish to it in making it my dish I guess. Dish don’t seem that complicated.
Question though: I’m guessing to blend the soup with the Immersion Blender you have to remove the solid Crab bits so you can blend the soup. Is that a correct assumption?