Monday, May 2, 2011

Easter Dinner in the South


Had a wonderful week of family visitors for my birthday. That was nice. I’ve missed the fam. We went to Poogan’s Porch on Thursday and it was AMAZING. Duck breast with collard greens and cheese grits. So good I almost died. It literally melted in my mouth. Nick had bbq hanger steak, mother dearest had shrimp and grits and Annie and Trellis had various forms of fried chicken. It was all tasty – but nothing compared to the duck breast. It was, in a word – DaBomb.

I really want to learn to cook grits and collards. They are two of my favorite things here but I cannot fathom how they are prepared. I’ll have to look it up I suppose, and then probably give up on the idea entirely because there will be so much butter involved in the recipe that I’ll never be able to bring myself to actually cook them so they taste half as good as they do in restaurants. I tried to make gumbo once without making a rouĂ©. It was terrible.

Easter was the day after my birthday and consisted of early morning bloody mary's, pool parties, fried chicken (great success), cheese balls, colored eggs (some cooked and some not) and an easter egg hunt with mini bottles of booze. It was easily one of the most laid back and drunken easter's in the history of my easter extravaganzas to date. I think I will repeat the experience every year for the rest of time.