Harvest the Music Adventure

October is an awesome month.  Both Arielle and I have birthday's this month.  Her's was first and we had various birthday shenanigans throughout the day.  We had a picnic with the picnic basket I got her for her birthday.  It was interesting.  Arielle, our friend Doug, and I went to Rouses to pick up some cheese, salami, apples (because they are in season NOW!), grapes, drinks and bread for the picnic.  Arielle then decided we had to go to Coliseum Square for our picnic because it was close to the Harvest Music Festival spot.  However, she had us go there through Albuquerque.  I felt like bugs bunny was giving me directions!  We finally got there and had a lovely picnic.

After our lunch outing, we met another of Arielle's friends, Kristin, at Sucre.  We love Sucre.  They have the best cupcakes and pastries around.  However, their chocolates and gelato leave much to be desired.  In fact, they are down right nasty.  But the pastries and cupcakes, as I stated before, are divine!  Arielle had her usual chocolate cupcake with chocolate icing, Kristin had the red velvet cake, Doug had the chocolate mousse thing, and I had the Tiffany-a dark chocolate raspberry piece of diabetes waiting to happen.  Sucre is rather fru-fru, but we like to go for our guilty pleasures a few times a year.



We left to get a beer at Lucy's Retired Surfer's Bar, and to meander our way to Lafayette Square--beers and lawn chairs in tow.  The Harvest the Music Festival is every Wednesday for the next few weeks and the food and drink monies help the Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana.  The food at the FREE concert (with Irma Thomas by the way!) was really good and not at all expensive.  The beer was pricey at $4 for a plastic cup of Abita, but what do you expect at such events?  We all acquired 3 dishes from 3 different booths.  There was Mac'n cheese from Ms. Linda's Soul Food Catering,  pulled pork over roasted corn cheese grits from Squeal, and spring rolls with dragon sauce from the Second Harvest Food Bank Community Kitchen. 

The Mac'n Cheese was so creamy and so cheesy and so delicious.  We all reveled in its wonderful greasy, cheesy goodness for a moment, maybe two!  Food for the soul, no false advertising there.






Squeal's pulled pork was nothing to write home about.  It was pulled pork, plain and simple.  Honestly, looked better than it tasted.  There was no imagination in the creation of the sauce.  It was what it was, ok pulled pork-a tad on the dry stringy side.  The corn grits however were pretty tasty.  We had to dig under the massive pile of mediocre pulled pork to get it, but it was pleasant none-the-less.  I'd rather a bowl of just the grits myself.



The spring rolls were just your average spring rolls.  Flaky, crispy, salty,  goodness.  But, the dragon sauce was surprisingly good.  We grooved on this sauce.  It had a bite from the pepper flakes and maybe even some sriracha hot sauce was in there.  There was also a nice tangy, sweet taste too.  It was just darn good!  Arielle is going to try to recreate it!