"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[grambysfarm]

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That video is really something else! Got to love it!

 

[HHandbasket]

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Do you have ANY idea how hard it is to find king cake in California??? Thank goodness we have World Market out here where you can at least buy a mix for making king cake (and it's actually pretty good). There are a few places here where you can get Cafe DuMonde coffee and beignet mix, too. (And you can't say the word "beignet" out here without someone saying, "What's THAT?")

The only thing harder than finding king cake out here is finding anybody who actually knows what it is!!! I called all these fancy-schmancy big California Capital City bakeries and specialty shops all over Sacramento, and not one person... NOT ONE ... knew what King Cake was. Seriously? I mean, even I knew about King Cake before I met Farmer Lew! I miss Mardi Gras season SO bad. We still have a big bag of beads from the Spanish Town parade in Baton Rouge from 2005!! We are having some friends over next weekend for a pot of gumbo and some king cake, and yesterday a guy came into my husband's work with some boudin! That's the first time I've EVER seen boudin in California.

Probably the biggest thing, in all seriousness, keeping us from moving back there is the 2-1/2 inch long flying cockroaches. Yah, I can do without those for the remainder of my days & I'd be okay with that.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Atwood's Bakery here ships king cakes anywhere in the country -- they are pricey though-- still one of the best I've ever tasted.

http://www.bakingmemories.com/


Now you know a little roach or two shouldn't be enough to scare you off!

lol, my husband is from Wisconsin originally; came here when he was stationed here after his tours in Vietnam & decided this was home since nobody owned a snow shovel or even knew what one was. So when we first started dating, he lived in an old wood frame house in the older part of town, & I was over there & this huge roach ran up the living room wall. I screamed & ran for the broom & he said, "what? my neighbor said those were just water bugs"?

O good grief! The next day I took him out to my folks house down to the bayou & showed him what a real water bug looked like.

 

[farmer_lew]

Thanks, TerrLaChicks, for the link to Atwood's. Unfortunately, it looks like it will be out of our budget to have a King Cake shipped. Including shipping, it will be about $80. Think we'll stick to the mix from World Market. Besides, it's actually pretty good.

The boudin that guy brought in to my work wasn't bad. I was actually a little surprised. It was different than any I have had before, but not bad.

 

[BayouPoules]

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Water bug!! Waterbug!! then why did he think it was running on his wall and not in the water!

I hate them both,. man I can still hear those giant roaches running around in the feed room of the barn when I went out at night as a girl,.

well,. chickens LOVE roaches ,.. just come on back to LA and get more chickens!

Glad ya'll got a dose of boudin Farmer Lew and HHandbasket,.

what kind of gumbo are ya gonna make?

 

[NonnasBabies]

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I'm starting a new line. I got these eggs from one breeder and I have more coming in next month from another. I still want to find one more and then go from there!! I'm excited about this new adventure!!

 

[BayouPoules]

That's great! DD and I hope you keep us updated on how that goes,. and pics please!!!

DD would have a whole yard full of them,. if we didn't already have a yard full of other chickens.

I think they are next on her list,. (she is working on a line of really nice SQ Australorps),. so we will be watching your project with interest!

 

[BayouPoules]

Hey! one of our Dominiques hatched a day early! She looks fat and sassy,.... I never get tired of this,.

But poor thing ,. she's all alone with a bunch of eggs till tomorrow,. no other pips yet,.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Mardi Gras Chicken Run........

I did some investigating and researched the Mardi Gras Chicken Run and to my surprise, I found that "running"chickens is NOT considered cruelty to animals.

I have the link below.

http://qaec.lsuagcenter.com/CrueltyToAnimalsStatute.pdf


See Page 3 - Section - C #5

Am I reading this right???????

C. This Section shall not apply to any of the following:
(1) The lawful hunting or trapping of wildlife as provided by law.
(2) Herding of domestic animals.
(3) Accepted veterinary practices.
(4) Activities carried on for scientific or medical research governed by accepted standards.
(5) Traditional rural Mardi Gras parades, processions, or runs involving chickens.​

 

[grambysfarm]

Kuntrygirl, it seems to me that for it to be listed on there as #5 that someone must have already made an issue of it.