Butte La Rose

Bonjour!
Mais la, I’ve been writing about our Hunter Hayes. But now I read in the Teche News we also have another Breaux Bridge native, River Gibson, also a singer/songwriter. We know plenty about Hunter and we have followed him. And now we find God has blessed as again with another gifted local artist.
River will make his national debut on American Idol Thursday, January 22. Can you imagine the many contestants he’s had to face up against to make it to get to the Idol stage? If he wins a golden ticket that will mean a trip to Hollywood to compete and hopefully become one of the 25 semifinalist. That is wonderful to know. Opening that door to the American Idol could be a big break for him.
It’s been a long time since I’ve cooked an old fashioned home made roux which I made with flour and hog lard. I mean it’s been forever. And I cooked it in an iron pot. Delicious! I don’t believe a roux should be cooked in the non-stick pot. That grease gets too hot and the material is not heat resistant like an iron pot is. But that is my opinion.
I went to Dr. Cordova for a follow up visit recently. And he gave me a prescription for my annual blood test. I told him I have been cooking with hog lard for a couple of months. He understood I was talking about gratons. I told him no and that the hog lard was what we cooked with long ago. There was no fancy cooking oil back then. I do remember the Crisco white lard. I explained to him that gratons were cooked in a big iron pot out in the back yard when we’d butcher a hog and that water was filled almost to the brim of the pot to cook the gratons and voila, results, the lard. These were our customs. Well he’d never heard of that and surely never eaten anything cooked in lard. I told him it’s delicious.
He asked me if I ever cook with olive oil and I said yes and still do that to now and then. He handed me the prescription and said well we’ll see how much hog lard you eat when the results come in. I know it’s no worst then eating fried cured bacon with all it’s chemicals.
I gotta tell y’all a few weeks ago I asked Dennis Courville where could I get my hands on moss to decorate my porch. He brought me a crawfish sack stuffed full that he’d picked from a pasture where he lives in Lake Dautrieve. I was so happy for it. I spread some here and there around the porch and even spread it across the screen giving it that haunting look. I wanted it to have that atmosphere like I live in the woods. And I do. I told him when people will come over seeing all the moss draped across looking like spider webs they’re gonna think I don’t clean my porch because it is full of cobwebs.
Got a good one for you. To lose weight take a glass of water, two teaspoons lemon juice and one tablespoon honey to drink on an empty stomach in the morning.
And to curb your appetite take one cup hot water, one teaspoon cinnamon, one tablespoon honey, drink one half cup on empty stomach and the rest forty five minutes after meal. Guilty of holiday over eating?
Thank you God for His guidance! This week I was able to fix my water softener and a water leak in my bathroom on my own.
Bonsoir,

Cousine Hélène
337-280-1988.
helenboudreaux@juno.com.