Tag: Red Beans and Rice

• Book Review: The Essential Instant Pot Cookbook by Coco Morante

  At what point when reading a cookbook do you make the decision to just go ahead and purchase a copy for yourself? Wait, you don’t read cookbooks? I do. I check out bags of them from the library and read them cover to cover like my favorite mysteries or biographies. Sometimes I jot down a…

  michardillo

  July 20, 2022

  books, Essay, food

  Coco Morante, cookbook, Instant Pot, New Orleans, Red Beans and Rice

• À bientôt

  On Thursday, May 14, 2015, I said my final goodbye to my dad or at least my final goodbye in this life. Being a faithful Catholic, however, I truly believe that I will see him again in eternal life, so perhaps Thursday’s goodbye was merely à bientôt. His funeral was beautiful. My brothers and I…

  michardillo

  May 17, 2015

  Essay

  Catholic, death, faith, funeral, grief, Gumbo, Hallmark, Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana, Mass, Plaquemines Parish, Port Sulphur, Red Beans and Rice, smothered chicken

• A Narrow Sliver of Land

  We all have our Proust moments: the singular bite of something that we loved and cherished in our childhood, re-tasted later as an adult, transporting us back in time to a particularly fond memory. Truman Capote, in his semi-autobiographical short story “A Christmas Memory”, describes in great detail the food of his childhood in the…

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  February 15, 2015

  Essay

  Bayou, Bread Pudding, Catholic, Cherry Bounce, Citrus, Freeport, Gumbo, Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana, Mississippi River, New Orleans, Old Fashioned, Peanut Butter Fudge, Plaquemines Parish, Port Sulphur, Proust, Red Beans and Rice, Shrimp and Crab Stew, Truman Capote