Farmer's Market

I went to the Crescent City Farmer’s Market this morning. I love farmer’s market’s, you support the local economy and get better food. They tend to be filled with hard working farmers with tips for cooking their products. I do my best to chat them up because they know of what they speak. This morning I had a wonderful conversation with the sausage lady. She grows, feeds, slaughters and makes her own sausages and other meats here in Louisiana.

I asked her, “What’s the best meat to add to Jambalaya?”

Sausage lady responds, “You’re not from here are you?”

“No ma’m, I am from Atlanta, Georgia. Why?’

“Because if you lived here you would have a recipe, but I can tell you my Andouille sausage is fantastic.”

“Fantastic, I’ll take enough to feed 12 people.”

“Bye they way if no one has said it to you yet, thank you for spending your money in New Orleans. Thank you for visiting and I hope you come back.”

Well, what’s interesting is that several people have thanked me for coming and spending my money. I went on a walking tour of the Garden District yesterday, if you need to know anything about the garden district I will gladly share my knowledge, and we were stopped by no less then 10 people on our tour and thanked for spending our money in New Orleans. I’ve been all over the world and have never been stopped in the street and thanked for spending my money.

Bye the way I bought local and organic Andouille sausage, shrimp caught this morning, peppers, onions, lettuces, crab apple jam and a cantaloupe. We will be enjoying the Jambalaya on Thursday night as a group. Jealous?

Posted by Alexis Chase – who is a tourist.