Hot Buttered Rum

A sweet and spicy yet elegant accompaniment to the bread pudding.

And for Dessert . . .

Creole Bread Pudding Soufflé,  "The Queen of Creole Desserts!"  Warm whiskey sauce added tableside.   Before and after photos.

Pecan Crusted Gulf Fish

A Commander's Palace Favorite - Prosecco poached Louisiana crabmeat, spiced pecans, and crushed corn sauce.  Once again, transcendent.

Cochon De Lait Eggs Benedict

Steve had this for his entree at Commander's.   12 hour barbecue shoulder of pork over cheddar and bacon biscuits with poached eggs, ripped herb salad, natural jus, and herb hollandaise.   Too good.

Bourbon Milk Punch

A brunch favorite!

Turtle soup

Wild snapping turtle with rich veal fond, crushed lemon, and aged sherry.  Excellent.

Sunday Jazz Brunch

Commander's Palace is a must in New Orleans.   They even have a dress code.   A jazz trio goes room to room throughout the restaurant playing classic jazz and requests.  Four star all the way.

Get out, Boxer! Get out!

They're taking you to your death!

Live Jazz Cruises

Four hours of live music, sceneic viewd, bad food and drunk people.  No thank you.  We have better things to do.

The Local Bubble Machine

Certainly an unusual sight to behold, but this photo of a bubble machine filling Bourbon Street in the French Quarter seemed completely normal here.  This place is a non stop party.

Royal House Oysters

Steve and I walked throughout the French Quarter (New Orleans) Saturday evening.   For now, all I want to say that it is one crazy scene.   Our top two choices for oysters having massive waiting lines, we ended up here.  Oysters were very large and meaty, but could have a stronger flavor.

Mississippi River

Old man river, keeps on rolling . . .

The Shed - More Photos

Bonus: The Shed was less than a half mile from I-10.

The Shed

Ocean Springs,  MS.  We split the sampler platter,  which had three pieces of seven different types of BBQ.  I thought the sausage was among the best of all of our travels.  Same for the potato salad.

Scarborough Rest Area

A rest area on I-10 with a 2 mile entrance ramp? Why yes, it does exist!  And the 2 mile exit ramp to reenter I-10 exists, too! 

Russ & Daughters

Smoked fish . . .  oh, smoked fish . . . forgive the Treasure Coast for its ignorance, and spread, spread your bliss!   Spread your bliss like cream cheese (non-whipped, of course) on a toasted split everything (preferably salt) New York bagel!  Fish and fish oil and material smokiness, spread your bliss, spread your bliss!   Oh, family, I will only return if I can spread this bliss, spread ths bliss!  No more time to sing; time to eat!

My first stop after deboarding at LGA on Friday morning was Russ & Daughters.  Check out the photos of their displays, diplays holding treasured goods, even treasured more than the over-looked herring.  This place is a g-dsend.  This will also be the last place I stop at Wednesday so I can spread, spread the bliss amongst mi familia.

Time Lapse Videos

I posted three time lapse videos in posts earlier this week.  I used an app named Lapse It. Next time I will get the professional version because the free one only permits 240 p resolution with very limited special effect.  The default period between photographs is five seconds.  I eventually settled upon 22 frames per second when I rendered the films into mp4 format (abandoning the default of 30 fps).  It was a pain uploading them from my tablet, but I eventually figured it out.

Del Posto Fixed Price Lunch

I discovered this incredible opportunity through my research.  Del Posto offers a $29 three course lunch.  Some of the selections, such as the beef and truffle carpaccio, cost extra ($15), and for $10 you can upgrde to a four course lunch.  That is what Darryn and I decided to do.  Being on vcation, one has to splurge.  Del Posto, if I remember my research, is the first Italian restaurant to receive four stars from the New York Times.  You truly need to experience a four-star restaurant to appreciate the level of service and the quality of the food.  The bitter herb and lettuces with truffle dressing that Darryn ordered for the anitpasti course is the best salad I have ever experienced (thanks, Darryn, for sharing!).  The lettuce ws incredible.  I never imagined that I would be extolling the virtues of a salad on this meat-fueled blog.  It was worthy.  One thing that I observed and commented upon throughout the meal (which lasted nearly two-and-a-half hours) was that every single dish served was at the perfect temperature for immediate enjoyment.   No item required a wait to cool down even slightly; no item needed even the slightest puff of breath to coool it down.  Del Posto served me one of my most memorable meals.  Bravo!

Our menu for Del Posto

Dessert course

I ordered Sfera di Caprino with celery and fig agrodolce and celery sorbet. The goat cheese cheesecake balls were transcedent, as was the palette-cleansing sorbet. Darryn enjoyed Tartufo al Caffe with dark chocolate, sant'Eustachio coffee and candied lemon. This meal was amazing every single step of the way. Oh, did I forget to mention the mini-donuts filled with cream and coated in cnnamon-sugar? Or the Chocolate fudge coated vanilla ice cream mini-lollipops? Or the candied graefruit? Or the heavily chocolate-dusted chocolate truffles, all complimentary? Check out the photos.