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re: Who here remembers "Silver Moon Cafe" behind the tracks on Nicholson?
Posted on 10/10/14 at 7:04 am to AscensionTiger
Posted on 10/10/14 at 7:04 am to AscensionTiger
Thanks
Posted on 10/10/14 at 7:30 am to arseinclarse
I told Momma I doubted some of her recipes accuracy since none of them called for lard. She said "honey, those meals aren't cooked with lard, they're cooked with love". She is a really sweet lady to this day, I still eat in her kitchen from time to time. I remember eating there at LSU and after she moved, wish she still operated in a storefront, I'd eat there at least weekly. Thumb beans were so good, and that brown gravy was on everything. Even the vegetables.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 8:28 am to theantiquetiger
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This place was the bomb!!!! $5 got you choice of one from each of the following: A: Smothered Fried Chicken Smothered Pork Chops B: Rice and gravy Mashed Potatoes and gravy Red Beans & rice C: One of three veggies (I forget which) For .50 cents more, you got a Coke poured out of a 2 liter. Then she started doing lunch plates. I remember spaghetti on Wednesdays and Meatloaf on Thursdays. It got to where you couldn't get in there. She moved to Chime Street about 1998, but closed after that (retired or just closed down) One of the BEST hidden secrets in BR!!!
went one time before she moved. the best home cooked meal ever.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 8:43 am to theantiquetiger
God yes! All the time to Nicholson location. Me and AFROTC peeps would camp out by the big P51 mural on the wall.
I had graduated by the time she moved to Chimes.
I had graduated by the time she moved to Chimes.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 9:13 am to VeniVidiVici
Try Dorothy on gardener lane
Posted on 10/10/14 at 10:24 pm to tigers1956
Made a visit there in the late 80's. Good eats.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 11:22 pm to Twenty 49
I went on Nicholson and on Chimes. Some of best food ever. I would get a lunch plate and have enough left over to eat for dinner as well.
Man, that was some good food.
The Nicholson location was crazy packed at lunch time.
Damn, I'm hungry now!
Man, that was some good food.
The Nicholson location was crazy packed at lunch time.
Damn, I'm hungry now!
This post was edited on 10/11/14 at 10:54 am
Posted on 10/10/14 at 11:42 pm to Dingeaux
We drank every damn beer she had in the joint one day after lunch. Decided to cut some bullshite class and chill after lunch, shooting pool.
I think the class was intended to replicate law office practice...and we did.
I think the class was intended to replicate law office practice...and we did.
This post was edited on 10/10/14 at 11:43 pm
Posted on 10/11/14 at 12:27 am to theantiquetiger
I was in the Nicholson rd location at least 2x a week. Good memories pulling down that dusty path along the tracks. The gravy was unreal and the "side" of beans was enough for lunch and dinner. God bless that woman
Posted on 10/11/14 at 1:32 am to theantiquetiger
Ethel's for the win!
Posted on 10/11/14 at 8:32 am to theantiquetiger
went there when she was on C himes. Ate there once a week. She always said feeding kids was her goal, not making money. So she didn't survive the rent raising on Chimes. (neither did Green Duck, who was 15 years ahead of the Latin craze)
Posted on 10/11/14 at 9:46 am to theantiquetiger
It brings a tear to my eye everytime I pass the old house where it used to be.
Posted on 10/12/14 at 6:30 am to REB BEER
Momma is still around and cooking. She mostly caters out of her house in North Baton Rouge mainly to small groups, but she still remembers and loves all her 'babies.'
She left LSU because they raised the rents to drive she and her Chimes Street neighbors out. The land sold to condos and national chains for more $$$. She set up a restaurant in St Gabriel (??!?) for a time, but it burned down. A Chinese joint now sits where the Chimes Street location used to be. The original 'Moon' off Nicholson is still standing, though unused.
I remember for breakfast, she would give you: 2 pcs Fried Chicken, 3 eggs, grits, a biscuit floating in Momma's 'Love Gravy,'and something to drink. For 6 bucks. And that old jukebox was filled with 45s, not a CD in sight.
Gotta love any cookbook where the Fried Chicken recipe says 'start with 50 lbs of chicken!" She was never very specific with the seasonings, though.
She left LSU because they raised the rents to drive she and her Chimes Street neighbors out. The land sold to condos and national chains for more $$$. She set up a restaurant in St Gabriel (??!?) for a time, but it burned down. A Chinese joint now sits where the Chimes Street location used to be. The original 'Moon' off Nicholson is still standing, though unused.
I remember for breakfast, she would give you: 2 pcs Fried Chicken, 3 eggs, grits, a biscuit floating in Momma's 'Love Gravy,'and something to drink. For 6 bucks. And that old jukebox was filled with 45s, not a CD in sight.
Gotta love any cookbook where the Fried Chicken recipe says 'start with 50 lbs of chicken!" She was never very specific with the seasonings, though.
This post was edited on 10/12/14 at 6:35 am
Posted on 10/12/14 at 8:17 am to AscensionTiger
Seabell Thomas, Mama, I worked there with my buddy and shot pool with Andrew....good times
Posted on 12/11/14 at 1:50 pm to robchand58
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Momma is still around and cooking. She mostly caters out of her house in North Baton Rouge mainly to small groups, but she still remembers and loves all her 'babies.'
I'm gonna need more intel on this. How does one arrange to get fed by Momma?
Posted on 12/11/14 at 4:52 pm to theantiquetiger
I do, it was there during my years at LSU
Posted on 12/12/14 at 5:28 am to OTIS2
I just ordered the cookbook. Even if none of the recipes come close to the amazing food I used to eat there it is a treasure to have that cookbook as a keepsake.
I remember that there was gravy on literally everything, except maybe the spaghetti.
I remember that there was gravy on literally everything, except maybe the spaghetti.
Posted on 12/12/14 at 7:42 am to grayson88
Anyone have a review on the cookbook?
I went there in the late 80s. Like someone said, you were worthless for the afternoon after getting a belly full at the Moon.
I went there in the late 80s. Like someone said, you were worthless for the afternoon after getting a belly full at the Moon.
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