Here are two more oldies from 2008, to finish the “Cooking with Arlo” segment. I like to cook, too. Cooking long as been a part of A&J in one form or another. Also like Arlo, I’m a fan of Julia Child, who led an amazing life. If you want a good overview and read, I highly recommend her 2006 autobiography, co-written with Alex Prudhomme, “My Life in France.”
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About Luann, that ain’t nekkid as we say in South. Unless she has shrunk?
Tonight the white house correspondents will attend a fake dinner.
Where are the kisses? I was taking a nap with Dickens and listening to Van Morrison.
Here is a song and a kiss for each of you my friends. Van Morrison These Are the Days.
https://youtu.be/_lyve_egY8o
Fewer kissing stories than I had hoped. Of course, being it’s the weekend, perhaps many are too busy doing so to talk about it. 😉
Or perhaps their spouses come here, too? 🙂
The summer between my junior and senior high school years I noticed a new face in the Memphis Summer Concert Band. Well, I actually noticed her legs first… running around in cutoff jeans. Her father was the band teacher at another high school. I never spoke to either of them until I came across them at the Tennessee Regional Band auditions in November. For some reason the judges and officials had some delays in posting the winners for several instruments including hers (Eb Soprano Clarinet) and mine (Bb Bass Clarinet). So arrangements were made with the bulk of the students heading home on the bus we’d come in and for me to ride back with the two of them.
I finally really became acquainted with Merrie that day. We agreed on a first date two weeks later and watched “Scrooge” (1970 version with Albert Finney) together. After the movie we started what became a tradition by stopping in at Shakey’s pizza, followed by my first ever serious kissing session. We dated regularly the rest of our senior year and into college. However she and her mom started fighting over everything and during her sophomore year she joined the Army to get away from that deteriorating situation. Looking back I can see that her mother was probably bipolar. 🙁
Postscript to my Kissing History Story: My friend in the backseat wasn’t as asleep as I thought. The next time I saw her, she grinned and said, “Awright, Ghost!”
“How do you think I did?” I asked.
“You did good,” she said. “Good enough that I’m a little jealous.”
The first time I ever heard Stevie Wonder was when my HS friend (Holly) played it for me on an LP on a turntable. (Does that date me enough?) I remember thinking, “This kid is good.” Brilliant me. Apparently several million other people thought the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhmq8JuPfJA
Jackie, probably passed you on I-20! We zoomed over to Ruston on Friday for my nephew’s graduation with a Master of Accountancy from LA Tech. Fried oysters in Shreveport as we drove through on Friday night. Good, but not fantastic. They were quite large, bigger than a silver dollar, after cooking. Back home Saturday evening after the graduation.
Hoping for some boiled crawfish soon. No one else in immediate family likes them, though, so no big at home boil for me. I hate to eat them out since they are very expensive. Around Austin the best price I can get is about $7 per pound (weight includes corn & potatoes). I usually eat about 5 pounds when I get the chance at a friend/family boil. I may buy a few pounds just for myself to have a small boil…
I feel your pain, David. I love me some mud bugs, too. But you do just about have to boil them yourself…unless you happen to have a Cajun brother-in-law, as I do. 🙂
I have picked out the place to eat crayfish tomorrow night, Cormierso. Saw it tonight, packed. Had to make do with corn and crab bisque and new salmon and garlic spinach dish at Copelands with my cousin.
His daughter owns the new hot cupcake shop and high fat ice cream shop. She sent me home with four dozen piled high fancy cupcakes. I began by giving away six to front desk shift. They were impressed.
Louisiana, Louisiana! It pulls like the gumbo mud that I grew up slouching through.
Here is link to restaurants menu for tomorrow night and crawfish.
http://cormierscajuncatering.com/restaurant-menu/
Here is link to Copeland where I had dinner tonight.
Copeland’s of New Orleans
Pecanland Mall Dr, Monroe, LA 71203
(318) 324-1212
https://g.co/kgs/ukv04a
Sorry if you all are being hit with Cajun food lust.
Jackie: That Cormier’s menu: I was in Monroe some 50 yrs. too soon, though perhaps I’d not appreciated it until a decade or so later when I’d developed more tolerance for spicy.
Yay, Cajun food lust. Peace,
Don’t tell me you taught here at UL-Monroe? Fifty years ago I would have been a student here, 1961 to 1963 I think. Vague on dates.
What course?
I need to remember this the next time I’m driving through Louisiana. Bullet apparently thinks it hurts his motor to go less than Warp 8.
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What is Bullet planning? A runaway from home dog?
Last one last. FIRST this morning
Think we are about to get storms here. Stepped out on front porch and heard lots of loud thunder!
Michael J. Fox presented an Oscar last night. You go Mike!
Michael J. Fox is a real super hero in my opinion. With or without a cape.
Good morning all. Dickens is refusing to get up. That is my excuse for still being undressed at eleven but as we say in the South, that dog don’t hunt.
Need to put on clothes to get room cleaned. Bye y’all.
I don’t care what Warren Beatty says, I still don’t like oysters, even if I could eat them.
Oh my, no wonder they sell!
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