The Roux Thickens

If my dear friend and neighbor ,

Karen from Ladybug Creek ,

had not had this cookbook and spoken so highly of it,

I never would have initiated

Quest # 3 million and two.

She first wrote about it here.


I am Pavlov’s dog:

easily influenced and copy catting prone.


I am also a sucker for a food story/history.

I always have been.

And so when Karen raved about this cookbook,

Who’s Your Mama, Are You Catholic,

and Can You Make a Roux?,

and knowing what a good cook and historian

 she is,

I ordered it. 

Compiled by New Orleans Picayune food editor Marcelle Bienvenue,

(and aside from the fact that I wish my name

were

Marcelle Bienvenue-

which sounds so exotic

a la New Orleans- )

this cookbook is an

‘authentic look at the cuisine and culture of South Louisiana’.


Be still my wanna be Louisianan yet also love being a Texan heart.


But then of course as it always does,


 the roux thickened.

I also discovered on Amazon that Ms. Bienvenu,

along with Judy Walker and the Times Picayune staff of

New Orleans,

worked at compiling over 225 important family and historical recipes that

were lost during Hurricane Katrina,

in order to create a cookbook titled

Cooking Up a Storm.


Well, by that point, I was a goner.

And so I ordered both, and they arrived yesterday.




And even though I may not be an official food editor,

I too have a family food history to tell.


I am dragging that long overdue family cookbook project out of the

archives known as my office/guest bedroom closet

to attack in earnest.


For those of you who know me well,

who might be thinking…

”Oh no! Laura’s starting

ANOTHER project,

and she hasn’t finished the others she has blogged about

here!”

“And what about that mirror she left propped against her den wall?”


Well, that’s how I roll.


I have to latch onto a project idea when the idea visits,

and besides,

it will all work out. 


Signed,

Laura Belle Bienvenu
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