
Cajun and Creole
:Red beans and rice, jambalaya, sauce piquant, shrimp Creole, chicken and sausage gumbo, hot boudin, boiled crawfish, fried seafood platters, crawfish bisque and ettoufee and catfish court bouillon – in Louisiana we take our food seriously. No other regional cuisine in this country is more complex, varied, or elegant as ours. Or near as well Continuing reading…

Louisiana Lifestyle
:After mid-morning Mass and a late lunch, my daughter and I walked to our backyard pond. Already there fishing were my brothers and a sister-in-law. My little girl picked up a pink Disney Princess fishing pole and I picked up a very cold Corona and wrapped it up in a tight fitting, new koozie. Yep, Continuing reading…

Beer Drinker’s Paradise
:Red beans and rice, jambalaya, sauce piquant, shrimp Creole, chicken and sausage gumbo, hot boudin, boiled crawfish, fried seafood platters, crawfish bisque and ettoufee and catfish court bouillon – in Louisiana we take our food seriously. No other regional cuisine in this country is more complex, varied, or elegant as ours. Or near as well Continuing reading…
Blog Updates
LA 31 Oddessy, Part 1
:Slightly across from our home’s side door is a small grove of bald cypress trees that we planted about thirteen years ago. Along with the live oak trees, crepe myrtles, and Southern Magnolias we transplanted, and a few very old native pecans, our yard is taking on the appearance of a Louisiana themed arboretum. In Continuing reading…
What Our Friends Are Up To
:You know I’d have to say that the biggest blessing for my family since we started Bayou Teche Brewing is all of the cool new friends we have made in the last two years. Though many of these new friends are in the beer industry, most are involved in wonderful things that have very little Continuing reading…
Undisputed Dance Champions
:Don’t blame me if you were injured on the dance floor at Pat’s Atchafalaya Club last Sunday. You were warned several months ago that I am not the world’s best Cajun dancer. Last Sunday afternoon Dorsey and Laurin, Byron, Lucius Fontenot, Brandon Broussard, Mona Oglesby, Stephanie and I drove out to the levee inHenderson. Lucius Continuing reading…
Before Lent
:Stephanie and I had been working all morning in separate rooms in our house. She was cloistered upstairs in our office toiling on some year-end reports going to the numerous officials in the states we are distributed in. I was downstairs answering the one hundred and seven emails I had let pile up during the Continuing reading…
Karlos’ Aha Moment
:We don’t drink wine with Gumbo, we drink beer!



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