Pictured above from left: Ron Fry (BBAM president), parents of Jay Karen, Jay Karen (PAII president), Janice DeLerno (LBBA president), Lois Rodrigue and Paul Worrell (LBBA members)

Pictured above: members of the Mississippi and Louisiana Bed and Breakfast Associations.

Pictured above: Mr. Jay Karen

Pictured above from left: LBBA president Janice DeLerno, and LBBA members Paul and Lori Worrell, and Lois Rodrigue

Great street party with lots of art, food, beverage and entertainment.  Baton Rouge knows how to support the arts and Forum 35 knows how to support Baton Rouge.

All artwork accepted to the competition will hang in the Shaw Center downtown gallery and remain up and open to the public for 4 weeks following the event.

Stay at The Stockade Bed & Breakfast when you come to see the art. All guest rooms, as well as the common areas, feature original Louisiana art.

Thanks Forum 35!

So, if you can’t spend it in Gay Paris, celebrate right here in Baton Rouge at one of our French Creole restaurants. Or, if you prefer to immerse yourself in a French community celebration, try Breaux Bridge and the fun-loving Cafe des Amis restaurant.

Ask for the special Bastille Day Package at The Stockade in Baton Rouge, and spend a relaxing night in one of the charming guest rooms.

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Travel west from New Orleans for approximately 120 miles and you arrive in the center of French Louisiana, also called Acadiana, or Cajun country.  Lafayette sits at its core, where I-10 intersects with I-49, and Cajun culture meets the 21^stCentury. Stop at Dwyer’s Café for some of the best gumbo in the area, and at the Blue Dog Café for the étouffée and a look at works by artist George Rodrigue.

Throughout the region – at cafes, gas stations, grocery stores, and restaurants – you’ll see signs advertising fresh boudin, a sausage traditionally made with pork, liver, long grain rice, and spices. The Southwest Louisiana Convention and Visitors Bureau in Lake Charles offers a  “Boudin Trail” guide that lists places to find the delicacy. Among the stops are Abe’s Grocery in Lake Charles, Brown’s Grocery in Hackberry, Comeaux’s Cajun Gold in DeQuincy, Poche’s Market and Restaurant in Breaux Bridge, Rabideaux’s Sausage Kitchen in Iowa, and Richard’s Boudin and Seafood Market in Sulphur.

You need only to ask your Innkeeper with help on where to go and what to do in Cajun country. Let your Bed and Breakfast lodging hosts be your guides.

Order Like a Local

If you want to get local treatment, you need to speak the language. Louisiana has a language of its own, derived from the French speaking populations that settled here hundreds of years ago.

Practice these few colloquial words and you’ll be treated like a pro.

Ètouffée (ay-too-FAY): Spicy Cajun stew traditionally made with crawfish and vegetables, served over rice.

Boudin (Boo-dan): Sausage usually made from a blend of pork, rice, onion, parsley, and green onion.

Crawfish (Craw-fish): Small freshwater relative of the lobster.

Jambalaya (Jum-ba-li-ya): Combination of cooked meats (seafood, wild game, etc.) cooked in a broth with rice and spices. The Creole version adds tomatos, the Cajun version is usually prepared without them.

Maque Choux (Mock-shoe): Creamy stewed corn dish made with corn, onion, celery, green pepper, tomato, and spices.

Muffuletta (Moof-a-lotta): sandwich stuffed with ham, salami, cheese, and a mixture of chopped olives, garlic, onions, celery, and olive oil.

Bon Appetit!

On Monday, March 5th from 5:30 in the evening until 7:00 at The Stockade on Highland Road, the YWCA invites the public to enjoy the Annual Book Exchange.

Midst food and spirits and good company, you can buy or exchange books for as little as 50 cents or 1 dollar.

Proceeds benefit the programs of the YWCA, including Early-Head Start, Center for Family Empowerment, Encoreplus, Racial Justice Dialogues, and Youth and Teen Services

100,000 visitors consisting of 60,000 bowlers and their guests will roll into the Baton Rouge area February 11 through July 9, 2012: an average of 900 bowlers plus guests every day for 151 days!

This is the second time that the United States Bowling Congress has sponsored the annual bowling tournament in Baton Rouge.  They enjoyed it so much in 2005 that they’ve come back to sample our fabulous Southern hospitality again.  They will be bowling in the River Center in Downtown Baton Rouge on one of the 48 newly constructed professional bowling lanes.  The competition runs 7 days a week from 7am til 3am and is open to the public.  Come check it out!

The Stockade Bed & Breakfast welcomes back some of our guests from the 2005 tournament and looks forward to greeting new friends as they come to Baton Rouge for this event.  Let us help you plan your total vacation get-away with visits to nearby plantations, swamp tours, golfing, restaurants and more.

Many bed and breakfast innkeepers are constantly looking for breakfast recipes that will “wow” their guests. After all, “breakfast” is half the name of a bed and breakfast! Here is a recipe that will make your guests feel like royalty.

The Caldwell House in Abbeville, Louisiana is fortunate to have on its staff cookbook author Gretchen Frith. This is one of the recipes in Gretchen’s cookbook, The “Bleep” My Family Eats, which contains not only breakfasts but other foods, as well. Gretchen has kindly shared her recipe with us:

Ingredients:

3 1/4 cups flour

1 3/4 cups sugar

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon salt (optional)

 1 teaspoon baking soda

3 large eggs-slightly beaten

1 cup plus 2 tablespoons vegetable oil

20 oz. frozen sliced strawberries with sugar, thawed (including juice)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix first 5 ingredients in a large bowl. In a medium bowl, mix eggs, oil and strawberries. Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix well by hand. Pour into two greased 9x5x3 inch loaf pans. Bake for 50 -55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the middle come out clean. Cool. Remove bread from pans. Slice and serve.
Enjoy!

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