The Babcocks will also have red bell peppers and okra. They grow the pumpkins in Picayune, MS., and run the business themselves. Satsumas are a variety of mandarin orange that was developed in Japan in the 16th century. The fruit is seedless, bright orange, and less acidic than other mandarins-great in a spinach salad with red onions, roasted pecans, and a ginger vinaigrette. The LaRues have incredible baby spinach with soft, delicate leaves and pleasant spinach taste-absolutely the best for salads.
LA has approximately one million acres of state-owned oyster reefs open during the season.
So eat them 'ersters and live longer and love better. In addition to the wonderful Des Allemandes catfish that Jeannie Fonseca normally brings she will also have a brand new fish kind of fish, Channel Mullet. This fish is called a mullet, but in reality it is a whiting, and a member of the drum and redfish family. The filets are supposed to be firm, sweet and freeze well. Any fish in the redfish family sounds like a great one to blacken to me.