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March 29, 1986 : I sneaked in a 6-pack for a few beers and a cigar in tribute to the Tigers while sitting out in the left field bleachers ... not the baseball Tigers, though ... it was to toast the Final Four team that had just lost to Louisville that day after one of the wildest rides we ever had ...

re: Steen's syrup

Posted by apacheba on 1/14/10 at 3:38 pm
[quote]Would appreciate if you would post how to make those popcorn balls with Steen's.[/quote] [link=(http://www.steensyrup.com/recipes175.html)]Steen's Popcorn Balls[/link] [img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2184/1867074300_513ca29aee.jpg?v=0[/img]...

re: Best place for salads in Lafayette

Posted by apacheba on 12/8/09 at 1:47 pm
Salads are good at Taco Sisters downtown on Johnston St, inexpensive food-to-go shack. All their food is frikkn delicious but theyre only open for lunch ... definitely worth a try. [link=(http://www.yelp.com/biz/taco-sisters-lafayette)]LINK[/link] ...

Catahoula's in Grand Coteau closed

Posted by apacheba on 7/4/09 at 9:09 am
Lost a good one last weekend : [quote]Acadiana has one less dining destination. Catahoula’s in Grand Coteau has closed its doors. A victim of the economy and the drive to the historic town in St. Landry Parish, chef and owner Jude Tauzin extinguished his flames for the last time after dinner on S...

re: An American football story

Posted by apacheba on 7/4/09 at 8:52 am
4th of July bump...

re: Lunch in Lafayette

Posted by apacheba on 7/3/09 at 4:31 pm
[quote]Soops in Maurice is only about 4-5 miles down Johnston. [/quote] That's a pretty ambitious shot for lunchtime traffic on Ambassador. Better take the scenic route down Kaliste to E. Broussard take a left down to 92 then a right thru Milton to Maurice ... or just go right on EB to Johnston. ...
Here's one dish for your list : [link=(http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art12846.asp)]Corn Maque Choux Recipe[/link] You might already have a maque choux recipe, I just picked that example randomly. Stuffed merlitons also popped into my head but I have no idea if these dishes appeal to you...

re: hog head cheese

Posted by apacheba on 7/3/09 at 2:57 pm
[quote]I wouldn't call it sausage, more like a type of jambalaya in a casing.[/quote] I wouldn't call it sausage either, but it is ... its blood sausage but we all mostly eat the unbloody white boudin and never call it sausage. If you wanna call it something in a casing it's more like dirty rice...
[quote]...the corn and crab bisque from [b]Bourgues[/b] (sp?) was the best I have ever had[/quote] [link=(http://www.bourquespecialties.com/)]Bourque's Super Store - Port Barre[/link] Good boudin and jalapeno sausage bread ... and cast iron pots. [img]http://www.bourquespecialties.com/si...
[quote]change the face of this country and everything we do [/quote] That's the general idea, amigo. For me, old cheap charcoal is the way to go. All the better if it's wet and sandy and the mosquitoes are eating you alive, with WWL on the radio. ...

re: Grocery Stores - Where do you shop?

Posted by apacheba on 6/30/09 at 12:43 pm
[quote]Where do you shop?[/quote] Joe D's & the Little BR Store back in the day ... now Piggly or Bourque's or the Sureway. [quote]make groceries / save groceries[/quote] I get down instead of out at the store. I tump over instead of spill the salt. I step in an ant pile instead of an ant h...
To everything, there is a season. That was the season for ... 'Our hitting coach sucks' and 'WTF is up with all the baserunning errors?' and 'Bench (Dean-Ochinko-Helenihi-Mitchell)NOW!! ... threads. This is the season for ... 'JJ vs JL' and 'Jai vs Hawkins' and 'JaMarcus vs Flynn' ... threads...

re: LSU PLAYERS IN CAPE COD

Posted by apacheba on 6/30/09 at 11:04 am
[link=(http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/messagetopic.asp?p=13995876)]Two LSU signees in the Cape[/link]...
He definitely will not start midweek games ... because he will start all Friday & Sunday games during the season and every single postseason game thru the CWS ... his record in 2010 will be 44-0 (all complete games) with 731 Ks. Also, this fall he'll go both ways starting all 14 games at QB besides...
Yeah, seems like it might have been produced by one of the public stations in New Orleans. Good idea, I'll try it. Thanks....
[quote]*********** I once saw a documentary called "Men of LSU," which dealt with the intensity of LSU fans' loyalty to their Tigers. I remember a scene in which two guys driving to an LSU game ran off the road and into a canal; after escaping from the car and swimming ...

An American football story

Posted by apacheba on 6/29/09 at 9:39 am
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1a/Holleder.jpg[/img] [b]Don Holleder - Army 1956 [/b] (Classmate of Norman Schwartzkopf) [link=(http://www.coachwyatt.com/HOLLEDER.html)]DON HOLLEDER, ALL-AMERICAN[/link] [quote]On October 17, 1967, as the West Point team prepared to meet Rut...

re: Two LSU signees in the Cape

Posted by apacheba on 6/29/09 at 7:01 am
[link=(http://www.nomaas.org/draft/?tag=brett-bruening)]Yankees draftee news[/link] [quote]Standing 6'6 and weighing 210 lbs, RHP Brett Bruening of Grayson County College in Texas has noticeable size and projection. His talent is also evident (bumping 95 and 96 mph), as hehas committed to play ...
[quote]Check out this ladies blog & recipes[/quote] That chick definitely has her crock together and that link is end-of-thready worthy ... OP needs to bookmark it....

re: gumbo

Posted by apacheba on 6/28/09 at 5:34 pm
[quote]I love celery in my gumbo[/quote] LSUGUMBO oughtta know. When I make the sign of the cross I say in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. You can't leave out the Holy Ghost - or the celery - from the Holy Trinity....