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The Cities: I could have sworn we had this thread but I guess not

I know the national Dems are ineffective (narrator: they are actually very effective; they are merely corrupt) but not every state Dem party can be trash. Right?
 
Proud2baLaker said:
This is very true especially in the French Quarter area. There are some great places there to be sure. Ones that have been around for decades. But there are a lot of imitators that take advantage of the tourists. I've only ever been to New Orleans for business which always placed us in that area and have managed to find good food I was happy with. I found some great little hole in the wall places that served tasty meals. And I found a very tasty duck dish when I went the other way across Canal down Magazine St and happened across a French place that was very good. And not that busy.

But I have wanted to go back with friends and look into getting out into other neighborhoods where the locals would actually eat. That is where the best of the best will be.
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Go to Elizabeth's in the Bywater neighborhood and eat yourself stupid. A former coworker of mine who lives across Lake Pontchartrain recommended it, and he was spot on. Probably the best red beans and rice I've ever had - served with a whole link of andoullie.

Adolfo's on Frenchman St. for Italian in a city where you wouldn't expect to find good Italian, though with a hint of Cajun/Creole of course.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Go to Elizabeth's in the Bywater neighborhood and eat yourself stupid. A former coworker of mine who lives across Lake Pontchartrain recommended it, and he was spot on. Probably the best red beans and rice I've ever had - served with a whole link of andoullie.
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Great, now I'm nauseous from being sick AND ravenously hungry. Can't say I've ever paired those two up before.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Go to Elizabeth's in the Bywater neighborhood and eat yourself stupid. A former coworker of mine who lives across Lake Pontchartrain recommended it, and he was spot on. Probably the best red beans and rice I've ever had - served with a whole link of andoullie.

Adolfo's on Frenchman St. for Italian in a city where you wouldn't expect to find good Italian, though with a hint of Cajun/Creole of course.
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Living in Idaho with my favorite cuisine being Cajun/Creole is a chore, at best. I can find some andoullie usually that is passable. Never seen boudin out here though. Seafood is slim pickins. I have this book and have been wanting to make more recipes from it. Might have to just force myself into it and make substitutions where I have to.
 
Yeah, seafood usually isn’t hard to keep nice. It comes back from frozen better than a lot of meat in my experience. (Anecdotal, I’m sure)
 
Firmer, steak-y fish like tuna, sword, salmon, etc. comes back from frozen pretty well. Shellfish not so much.

I took a paella cooking class around here last year, and the instructor lamented having to use frozen shrimp & mussels to demo the seafood version. She said she usually sticks to chicken and sausage unless she's near a coast.
 
Kepler said:
I am genuinely surprised. Close enough to the best salmon and crab in the world to have it easily shipped. Great trout and sturgeon fishing year round locally.
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Salmon and trout no problem. Tilapia and cod all over. Heck I grow rainbow trout (if you see Idaho rainbow trout at the store or on a menu, probably an 80%+ chance it came from my company and we are considered a best choice). Shrimp yes. Crab maybe. But after that, it gets iffy. Nothing interesting. Boise and sometimes the sun valley area can have some good and different stuff but that's 1.5-2 hr drive from me. The sturgeon in Idaho is endangered. Can fish for them but cannot remove from water at all.
 
Sturgeon are also threatened in Michigan and fishing is limited. C&R only except for a few lakes that have short seasons with a large minimum length and a maximum of 1 per angler per year.

They're showing signs a comeback after years of work, so just in time for a change of power in Lansing to gut the DNR and fuck it up.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Firmer, steak-y fish like tuna, sword, salmon, etc. comes back from frozen pretty well. Shellfish not so much.

I took a paella cooking class around here last year, and the instructor lamented having to use frozen shrimp & mussels to demo the seafood version. She said she usually sticks to chicken and sausage unless she's near a coast.
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This is a really interesting observation, thanks.
 
Reality TV....star? Spencer Pratt posted this weekend that he doesn't understand how votes are counted.

If he doesn't understand how counting works, maybe he should go back to elementary school and not run for mayor.

Oh, and he's dropped to third. It's all but over. It will be incumbent Karen Bass vs Councilwoman Nithya Raman.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Firmer, steak-y fish like tuna, sword, salmon, etc. comes back from frozen pretty well. Shellfish not so much.

I took a paella cooking class around here last year, and the instructor lamented having to use frozen shrimp & mussels to demo the seafood version. She said she usually sticks to chicken and sausage unless she's near a coast.
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I know someone who's rule is to never order seafood if he is more than 100 (maybe it's 200) miles from a body of water. His belief is if it's that far, it can never be good. (And yes, he's a food snob...)
 
I had no idea sturgeon even could be overfished. I thought they were one of those things that is essentially infinite, free supply, like pretty girls after you get west of the Mississippi River.

Or is it climate change / pollution that's endangered them?

The fish, I mean.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
I know someone who's rule is to never order seafood if he is more than 100 (maybe it's 200) miles from a body of water. His belief is if it's that far, it can never be good. (And yes, he's a food snob...)
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I’m far from a food snob, but having lived in flyover country my whole life, I hate frozen seafood. Fresh seafood, on the other hand, is absolutely delicious.
My last meal on death row would have to include a fresh Maine lobster roll or six.
 
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