For the last leg of our two week road trip to see the MotoGP races in Austin and then a tour of the Texas Hill Country we got an invite to Conn Ass Country in Baton Rouge to visit one of my favorite cousins down there Stevie and his wife Cindy.

Stevie has a cabinet building business and is an avid hunter and fisherman. He's a member of a corporation that owns 2000 acres or hunting land on the Mississippi river and does some very high end cabinetry and construction for some billionaire owned hunting lodges in Louisiana, so he does very well for himself.

There's a word in Louisiana called Lagniappe and it basically means: Getting more than you expected. Well our visit with Stevie and Cindy was way more than we expected. First off we got there after driving all day from Fredericksburg, Texas to Baton Rouge and They had a bar spread for us and ice cold beer. Stevie cooked "Bambi Bites" and bacon wrapped shrimp, potato salad and baked beans and beef. It was a trip to Flavor Town, USA...






Next morning he made us some sausage, biscuits and his tomato gravy. his tomato gravy has made me completely rethink my life so far. I've made tomato gravy several times, but this has redefined tomato gravy for both me and Mrs. Irish...




After coffee and breakfast on Friday we hung out in the carport drank Micheladas, told stories to the girls about us growing up on the farm and doing stupid chit together when we were kids. Well just so happens, this being Cajun country and all that a buddy of Stevie's a couple of doors down sells seafood and was cooking up 100 pounds of crawdads on Friday and 800 pounds on Saturday for a church social, so we went down to see how it all was done...








We brought a mess of them back and chowed down...




After more day drinkin', story tellin' and all around fun, Stevie decided we needed to eat again and decided on fresh fried butterflied shrimp and farm raise catfish...