Yesterday I was finally able to get away for a quick trip up to Pineville Louisiana and made some stops along the way for boudin and some hogshead cheese, I don't if it's like it was yesterday morning in Baton Rouge but the traffic on the Interstate was horrible. Left Metairie at 6:30 and spent at least an hour in creeping traffic on the I-10 in Baton Rouge.

We stopped at Bergeron's in Lobdell for a bathroom stop and boudin balls, cracklins which were delicious and the son got a BBQ Beef sandwich that was pretty darn delicious. Got on 190 and next stop was Soprano's Suppermarket. There I picked up some jalapeno sausage, pork boudin and their hog's head cheese which looks really good.
Next stop was Kartchner's in Krotz Springs. I really like the variety of stuff they have there! Grabbed some Jalapeno and pepperjack cheese boudin and regular Pork boudin there.
Back on the road and further down I stopped in Port Barre' at Bourque's Supermarket. Only got some pork boudin there as well as their rice dressing mix which is pretty darn good and a pan of their jalapeno cheese bread. Didn't get their HH cheese this trip as I've had it and there really is only so much hogs head cheese you can eat without it going bad.

Just an FYI I overheard someone talking about the Cracklin Festival in Port Barre' this weekend for anyone interested.

After Port Barre' I took a back road to 71 up to Bunkie then Evergreen. No stops for boudin there and it may have been a while since I've been to Evergreen but it's changed so much that I blinked and missed some things I wanted to show my son. I had to may a u-turn and backtrack a little bit to show him where family used to live there and the bayou I used to fish in. So taking another back road we get on 115 heading toward Hessmer. This mission was to find the road where the farmer lived that we used to buy boxes of sweet potatoes from. Luckily they have a sign on 114 directing to the house. Got there and bought two boxes of nice looking Orleans and Beauregard sweet potatoes on the honor system. I'm really happy now! 80 lbs should last a little while huh? Lol..... I'll probably give some away here.

Heading toward Pineville now I decide "What the heck?" let's stop at Juneau's in Marksville for some more cracklins! Got some cracklins but no boudin there as I've had a lot of theirs and it's really good stuff too. Oh, Juneau's sell pork skins I assume they make themselves by the way it packaged and they are fantastic. Not talking about cracklins but light airy pork skins that are nicely seasoned with a bbq like flavor.

That was it for buying specialties as we had to get up to Pineville. Had a great yet short visit and headed back to the house.

The weather was a perfect dreary wintery looking day for this trip and it got cooler as the day passed. Unfortunately as we got closer to home the temps rose. Nice cool breeze this morning though. So we made five stops and got some nice looking goodies. I'll split the packages of boudin up this morning and probably do a grilled comparison and a steamed/simmered link comparison later. The steamed batch will most likely be another day. as I'll probably Foodsaver that batch. Baked sweet potatoes will most likely be on this evening's menu for dinner.

This post was edited on 11/9/17 at 8:39 am