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Toast Tuesday: New Orleans style Barbeque Shrimp

28 Tuesday Feb 2017

Posted by Lula Harp in just a thought, recipes, Toast Tuesday

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barbeque shrimp, butter, fresh herbs, Mardi Gras, New Orleans, pascale manale

When I was a kid, my favorite foods were mac and cheese and shrimp scampi. The first time I was served scampi with the heads on, I didn’t eat shrimp for a year. I was a little horrified
Fast forward a few years and a trip to New Orleans. We went to Pascal Manale’s, home of Barbeque Shrimp. There is no grill involved in this BBQ, just lots of butter, garlic, and bread to dip. This was a hedonistic mess of goodness sautéed and served family style. This recipe was developed in 1953 and is one of the city’s most copied creations.

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. There are dozens of variation and takes on this recipe. My favorite was one we had a few years later at Slice Pizzeria on Magazine St. It was the garlic and butter plus a huge amount of herbs that reminded me of a chimichurri sauce. The herbs really brightened up the heaviness of the butter and took this dish to a whole new level.

This Sunday we had a Mardi Gras dinner with a bunch of friends with everyone making their Nola favorites. I’m happy to report my barbeque shrimp were divine, and the dish was scraped, sopped, and mopped clean. I will definitely be making this again, and very soon!

Here’s what I did:

New Orleans Style Barbecue Shrimp Recipe

1 Sticks of Unsalted Butter
2 Tbsp Garlic, minced
1-2 Tbsp Fresh Thyme, chopped, plus more for finish
1-2 Tbsp Fresh Oregano, chopped, plus more for finish
1-2 Tbsp Flat leaf parsley, chopped, plus more for finish
Juice of 1 Lemon
about ¼ cup Louisiana Hot Sauce
about ¼ cup Worcestershire sauce
generous dusting of white pepper (I’m allergic to black pepper)
generous dusting of Tony Chachere’s
1 Tbsp Kosher Salt)
2 lbs tails on shrimp
½ cup Abita Amber Beer (optional for deglazing. I didn’t have any)

Start with 2 tablespoons butter in a medium hot skillet. Add the garlic and sauté until slightly browned. Add the fresh herbs and cook for 2 minutes. Deglaze with the beer if you have it, otherwise add lemon juice and reduce by half.

Add Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, pepper, salt, Tony’s and shrimp. Toss to coat. Put lid on skillet and sauté shrimp for about 5 minutes or until done. Do not over-cook!

Chop up thyme, oregano, and parsley so you have about a cup of herbs combined. When Shrimp are done, add remaining stick of butter and stir in, followed by cup of fresh herbs. Serve with good crusty French bread or dinner rolls for sopping.

Laissez les bon temps rouler!

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Toast Tuesday: Ginger Beer

29 Tuesday Nov 2016

Posted by Lula Harp in Toast Tuesday

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ginger beer, Lazy Magnolia, New Orleans, sweet potato beer, The Year of Drinking Adventurously

I’m going slightly off book this week in our Year of Drinking Adventurously.  I did not even crack the book, but will be revisiting this topic in the next few weeks.

I just got back from an awesome eat-a-thon trip to New Orleans. One of the members of our party, had never been with us on of our eating trips.  The uninitiated are always horrified and delighted with the amount we consume and the places we go.  Truly a gastronomic delight.

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On our way down to Nola, we stopped for a tasting at Lazy Magnolia Brewing in Kiln, Mississippi.  There are only two reasons why you would have ever heard of Kiln.
1.  Home of Brett Favre.
2.  Lazy Magnolia Brewing.
There is nothing else in this town.  When we missed one tour and the girl told us we had to wait an hour, I asked what else was in town for us to do.  She told us to go to the animal shelter and adopt a pet.

So, we hung out and played corn hole until we got to do the tour and tasting.  Mississippi has some messed up, ridiculous laws that say unless you see the production facility, you cannot do a tasting.  WTF?!  Once we finally got to do our tasting, we were not disappointed.  We got 6 generous tastings of beer and a tiny tasty of mead.  We shared and swapped samples, so we really got to try anything and everything we wanted.

Last week was sweet potato beer, and I was certain I had found one, but have no idea where it ended up.  Sure enough, as soon as I saw the label for Jefferson Stout, I knew I had gotten it.  Now to dig in the fridge to find it.  (how embarrassing)  It was a lovely stout, but I don’t think the sweet potato adds anything noticeable.  Mississippi grows a lot of them, so I can only guess the goal of using sweet potatoes was to use local products. 


Moving on down the road, to New Orleans.  We usually have lunch at Cochon Butcher just before we leave town so we can stock up on awesome charcuterie.  It was here I  attempted to make up another missed week of drinking and had Nola Tart of Steel.  According to the beer board, it is a Berliner Weisse, but now reading Nola Brewing’s website, I’m not convinced.  I’m still calling that week unfinished.


Now, onto ginger beer.  As I have started doing when I am in a different city, and certainly state that has liquor laws like Louisiana, I had to hit a few stores to check out the offerings.  I grabbed a couple different ginger beverages just for this week’s adventure.  I only cracked one open in time for the write-up.  I tried Hitachino Nest.

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The back of the label says they use real ginger root in the brewing process for some spice and balance with the sweet malt.  None of the ginger came through for me.  While this beer is good, it’s not one I will get again.  Slight hint of hops, with lots of malt and maybe some molasses.

Let’s see how Meg did with this week’s challenge.  We are on the home stretch in our adventure.  I’ll have to figure out what to do with the new year.  I’ve enjoyed having this weekly challenge to keep me on task.  There have certainly been weeks I did not want to write, and weeks my writing showed that, but overall, this has been great fun.

Have a Toasty Tuesday and a wonderful week y’all!

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who (da hell is) dat?!

01 Thursday Dec 2011

Posted by Lula Harp in vacation

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New Orleans, New Orleans Saints, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis

Enter earlier promised vacation rewind.  We’ve decided that our annual eat-drink-NOLA needs to be biannual.  

Monday night the New Orleans Saints kicked the ass of the NY Giants.  and I got the pleasure of being there.  Thanks Brother for letting me invite myself to enjoy this.  Brother totally spoiled me by starting off the evening with dinner in the stadium and a walk on the field.  We got to see the ESPN guys doing pregame interviews and eat the cutest football cookies.

Things got really interesting when we got to our box.  The box next door is a visitors box.  So, they never know who’s going to be next door.  This fine evening our neighbors are the owner’s of the Giants.  While this in itself is an interesting nugget.  It got really exciting when their guests showed up.

Jason Sudeikis is at the top of the picture with Zach.  All very nice guys.  It’s just a darn shame that we had someone in our box who was so annoying and ran them off.

So, WHO DAT!  What a great night!  I’m not sure it could have been any better.  Thank you Brother and the Normal family for an always awesome eat-drink-nola 2011!

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Chef Donald Link Day

29 Tuesday Nov 2011

Posted by Lula Harp in restaurants, vacation

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Butcher, charcuterie, Chef Donald Link, fresh fruit, Herbsaint, New Orleans, pastrami, pork belly, pork cheeks, short ribs

I’m out of order and I’ll catch y’all up sooner or later, but I’m kinda tipsy and high on life.  I met a culinary hero tonight and I’m just giddy!

We had a lazy, slow morning because we stayed out way too late last night.  And this is where I’ll rewind to when I get back to reality.  But this morning started with a fruit plate to balance the fat and meat I’ve been eating non-stop.

Then we started off walking with a goal in mind. Like the mothership calling me home we went to Butcher for lunch.  Beer, a carcuterie plate, pastrami sandich and a pork belly sandwich and I’m in heaven.  I might as well go home now.

As if the day wasn’t perfect after eating that goodness. We walked off a bit of the lunchtime pork buzz and napped before embarking on dinner… (dah, dah, dah…)

We walked to Herbsaint for a 7:30 reservation.  We walked out of there 2.5 HOURS later and I cannot say a bad thing.  Our server Joe was exceptional, darling fella who took great care of us.  We ate our way through the small plate section so we could sample it all!  and it was ALL GOOD!  My top picks were the spaghetti with guanciale (pork cheeks) and the beef short ribs.

Now, I am not one to fawn over celebrities and I generally leave people alone unless they are thrown in my face.  But when SIL said, Chef is in the kichen tonight, I nearly wet myself.  The next time sweet Joe made his rounds, I prefaced my request with No is an acceptable answer, but I would LOVE to meet Chef.  I’ll see what I can do, he said.  Brother said, she came all the way from Oregon and I added it is Donald Link Day, we had lunch at Butcher.  He’s really shy, I’ll see what I can do. 

We’d nibbled more and I’d just so happened to have freshened my lip gloss, when I get the HE’S COMING from across the table (my back was to the kitchen).  Chef walks to the man of the table and I love my brother, he directs Chef to me.  He talked to us for a good 5 minutes.  I told him he inspred me to make bacon.  He told us about the book he’s working on now (I can’t wait!).  Chef Link was delightful and charming.  The rest of the evening people in the restaurant and the wait staff kept looking out to see who Chef had gone to talk to.  Brother looks like Bob Villa so that always a good rumor.

I’ll sleep a good sleep now and have dreams of pork bellies dancing through my head.  ahhhh…

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