Talkin' Sleazy in The Big Easy

[catelin]

Getting ready for a trip to New Orleans next week to interview some witnesses for a sexual assault on a child case...actually on multiple children, but this is the beginning of my preparation for trial. Love, love, love New Orleans! Even though it's going to be pretty much all business, just being there will be great. I spent most of my adolescence in Louisiana, so I always have this feeling of homecoming anytime I go there. But the main reason I love it so much can be summed up in one word: CRAWFISH. : )

Comments

[strike-anywhere.livejournal.com]

I know this is going to sound utterly pedestrian, but I never cared a whit about New Orleans until I saw 'the pelican brief'.

I have no idea why, or what this means.

[catelin.livejournal.com]

That was a much better movie than I expected it to be.

Re:

[strike-anywhere.livejournal.com]

I didn't have any expectations. Prior to that movie, I don't think I'd ever heard of Grisham. I blame that movie for starting my habit of buying either a grisham or crichton novel everytime I go to the airport.

(I have no idea what any of this has to do with you going to New Orleans... I hope you manage to find the time to munch on some crawfish... perhaps listen to some dixieland).

Crawfish

[verian.livejournal.com]

In your mind you have capacities, you know
To telepath messages through the vast unknown
Please close your eyes and concentrate with every thought you think
Upon the recitation we're about to sing
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft

Ooopppsss - wrong song, I meant this one:

Jambalaya, crawfish pie, fillet gumbo
For tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher a me-o
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar, and be gay-o
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou

-

I've never tasted crawfish, what's it like? (I also haven't tasted Jambalaya, fillet gumbo or gay-o)

Re: Crawfish

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm...crawfish taste kind of like shrimp, but with more soul--salty from the tears of our past, both joyful and bitter, shed into southern waters; sweetened with a graceful charm that smells like sassafras, and full of cayenne sultriness that lingers on your tongue like an old lover's kiss. They taste like...heaven. : )

Re: Crawfish

[verian.livejournal.com]

Sounds rather nice....but.....doesn't heaven taste of candyfloss?

Re: Crawfish

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Nah...heaven would definitely be spicy with all sorts of different flavors mixed together. : )

Re: Crawfish

[verian.livejournal.com]

Like bombay mix?

Re: Crawfish

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Oh, you poor dear...I forget that the concept of "spicy" means Indian food to the English...that may be nirvana, but heaven is Southern spicy stuff--Mexican food & Cajun & Soul Food. Yummy!

Re: Crawfish

[verian.livejournal.com]

I have eaten mexican food, in a mexican restaraunt run my mexicans. Capitol Hill, Seattle. It was marvelous, the best I've ever tasted. Enchiladas, refried beans. A portion big enough to feed a family of four and I confess, I cleared my plate. I also had many margharitas. (apologies if my spelling is crap here)

I would say Indian food is probably ambrosia. It's more popular than fish 'n' chips here now, the No.1. take away food in the UK. My own No.1 dish? Chana Aloo (chick peas and potato - no meat for me!)

Cajun and Soul Food? A long time ago a Jamaican lady did Jerk Pork for me which was very good.

I can hear my roommates making love. They laugh and it's beautiful.

[bizetsy.livejournal.com]

I am absolutely certain that New Orleans has by far the best and largest portioned food I have ever eaten anywhere. O, I had this panneed chicken, this sandwich, fish to die for, and I hate fish!

Being able to walk into open air jazz and blues clubs was magical--tho I desperately avoided Bourbon Street--can ANYONE tell me what they see in that place? The mystical quality of this city is intense.

Of course, it was a 12 hour drive and we were there only 1.5 days for a Tulane interview and I did get a flat tire driving back at midnight on a deserted freeway and a HORRIBLE case of conjunctivitis that had WORMS of pus swimming out of my eyeduct which necessitated (after one-eyed tire change) being up until 4am on a morning that I had to be at student teaching at 7:15. A, college.

As for the case, I sigh aloud even upon repeat reading. What can I say, again and again. But I applaud you. I respect you immensely.

Re: I can hear my roommates making love. They laugh and it's beautiful.

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Bourbon Street is definitely not my favorite part of the city. I've never been a fan of any of the "let's get shit-faced" travel destinations, though. I just like to hunt through and find little places hidden in the nooks and crannies. Worms of pus!! That made me laugh!! Ick!! And I have definitely enjoyed all YOUR adventures...always makes me smile to read the come-squish-your-toes-in-it contentment you have radiated lately. That's nice. You deserve it. : )

[reymon.livejournal.com]

Once when I was a kid, my friends and I went fooling around by a lake (in Michigan) and whittled sharp points on the end of a stick, to use for 'gigging' crawfish. :-o We were too chicken to eat 'em. How do you prepare those things? Are they kind of like big shrimp? I've noticed that my Louisianan co-worker likes to freak everybody out by describing in detail, the process of catching, cooking, then eating them, and finally, 'sucking their heads'! :-( Yechhh Do people really do that? Guess I'm a wimp. :-) Hey, come to think of it, maybe fresh water crawfish aren't as good to eat as ocean crawfish? I dunno... Sea fud is gud. :-)

Rey

Head

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there are people that do that. It's not as gross as it sounds. : )