HAVE A BANANA HANNAH

"Everybody eats when they come to my house."

I love that old song and all things Fats Waller

Anyway after Katrina everything in my yard died.

The bananas just sort of took a break. They are back.

 The  Old Avocado had just made it's first crop (they take about seven years from seed to fruit). The New Avocado is doing nicely as are the New Citrus.

I tried some Tiny Eggplants this year for the first time and they are quit yummy.

 As allways Click on the pics if you wanna see some sub-tropical porn close up.

P.S.  I should mention that these  bananas get about half the size of the ones you see in the store and have a banana /strawberry / and citrus flavor.

They take a year and a half to mature so if we get a hard freeze there are no bananas that next fall. 

A lot of people down here hate bananas in their land scape because they can take over your yard.

The trick is to have a place to compost the old trees after they make fruit as they only make fruit once. Also have a place to compost the guys that get killed in the freeze.

The other trick is to just mow any tiny shoots you don't want just like grass.

I hear the same is true of bamboo.

As long as you got a spot in your yard to compost your good plus you dont have to buy potting soil after a year or two of composting.

MORE GENTILLY WILDLIFE

The Wild Parrots Of Gentilly Have Finally Returned.

I Missed You Guys and Gals.

Sorry The First Pic In The Wisteria Didn't Come Out Better.

As Allways Click On The Pics.

P.J. Brown and Big Baby Davis are gonna get a ring

Hornets didn't get there this year.

So root for the celtics this year yall.

Hail the Big Mon

This post goes out to Ashley Morris.

I never met the man but his blog was a big part of my post Katrina therapy.

right after the storm he dogged gentilly as a whole and i wrote him about the diversity of our neighborhood.

he digested the info and changed his mind.

the cat was a thinker and  a man.

I sent him these pics  many  months ago of  us  cooks making hogshead cheese at work on the sly because I knew he would like them and we are'nt supposed  to show things that are for cook's consumption only.

I figured he would like to see the inner workings of how cooks and chefs amuse them selves.

i hope all who were touched by ash will think of his wife and his kids and at least by a t-shirt or hit the paypal fund for his fam.

thats all i could afford to do but at least it adds up.

god speed prof.

as allways. click on the pics for some swineish  biggness yall

SHORT STOP

So back in the day in the 70's we used to skip out  from school and smoke weed and prowl for munchies.

Back than the high schools were segregated by sex to dodge the integration laws.

The fact that our high school was all boys made skipping out pretty easy.

The men in charge looked the other way while tetestorone left the building

To this day i  still kid my little brother for going to Grace King i.e. a girls school.

One of our favorite skip out joints was the Short Stop on  the corner of Airline and "Transcon".

They had the  sloppyest  roastbeef  plus 

"swimps" po-boys that were over flowing with "swimps" on the butcher paper.

A Cheech and Chong munchie wet dream.

They were all  drenched in blue plate mayo like a bunny mathews cartoon in the old figaro paper.

So now  i'm middle aged i'm tooling down airline to get some cheap gas at sams club and lo and behold.

the old short stop has moved and they have striped it's skin to reveal an even older joint with signs of cabins and package booze.

i thought i was old school only to learn there was an older school.

anybody with info on this joints earlier life please write about it.

included in the pics are the new short stop a block down the street.

enjoy and click on the pics if you want to see bigger images