Category: Acadiana Life
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5 Tips to Make your home cooked Cajun Meals even tastier
We’re Cajun. We cook. We feed people and we love it…it’s what we do. In Cajun country, cooking for others is one way we show them love. What better way to show someone you love them than to cook tasty, healthy meals for them? Now, some of us are better than others in the kitchen,…
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Painting with Mrs. Pearl
During the years when we lived in Washington, we’d have art lessons on most Saturday mornings. Our instructor was a friend of my mother’s who would teach us various painting techniques – usually acrylic on wood. Our classroom was in the attic of a gift shop my family owned. The gift shop was an old Acadian style house…
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Meeting Darth Vader
I met Darth Vader. In real life. When I was a kid. As I explained in an earlier post, my family owned a video store. This means that the stores received posters and other promotional materials when new movies were released. Movie posters were a dime a dozen and as store employees, we’d call dibs…
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Donut lovers unite! Meche’s in Lafayette is calling your name
If you love donuts (and who doesn’t love donuts) – then you need to head to Meche’s in Lafayette. Trust me, they’re better than those KK doughnuts and galaxies better than the ones that supposedly “America runs on…”. Trust me on this, people – I have friends who have taken my taste test challenge and…
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What being Cajun means to me: Joie de Vivre
As I outlined in last Monday’s post, I’ve started to ponder what being Cajun means to me – the traits typically found people who identify with the Cajun culture. Last week, I blogged about resourcefulness. This week, I’m going to blog about how Cajuns like to have fun. Cajuns are usually described as having “Joie…
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Meeting the Landry’s from Swamp People – A dream come true
We’ve waited YEARS for a Cabela’s store to open in Georgia. My husband and I have always been big fans of Cabela’s and we’ve visited their flagship store in Sidney, NE on road trips out west to see his family. Their products are top notch and their stores are like a giant toy store for…
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Video Store Galore – The story of our family business
In the early 1980’s, my Uncle Bob had a great idea for a business – we’ll rent videos to individuals to watch at their home on this awesome new technology – a VCR. Folks, this was back in the days of the BetaMax vs. VHS format wars – I mean old school video store stuff.…
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A community market – Corner Pantry
I’ll never forget the small neighborhood grocery market just up the street from our house on Sunny Lane in Lafayette. The name was simple – “Corner Pantry” and they carried all of the grocery essentials, plus the market featured a restaurant tucked just inside the store’s front door. We’d stop in there frequently with my…
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Dinner at the Steamboat Warehouse – A family tradition
When my family lived in the tiny out of the way town of Washington, LA, we’d frequently eat at the Steamboat Warehouse – it was one of the few restaurants in town. It was also convenient because it was just down the street from our house. As you can guess from the name, the restaurant is…
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The Ragin’ Cajun
The expression “A Ragin’ Cajun” is something most people have heard. After all, it’s the mascot of ULL (that still sounds funny – to me it’s still USL). Did you ever KNOW a Ragin’ Cajun? Well, we did. He was a family friend all throughout my childhood. Recently, I found some vintage photos when going…