A Friday Afternoon Treat

Most of the time, we like to eat homegrown food raised right here on Our Maker's Acres Family Farm.  It is good stuff and we enjoy growing it and cooking it and especially eating it.  On some Fridays, however, we bend the rules a little bit.  Our family jumps in the car and heads due west.  The paved road soon turns to a gravel road and the dust billows up in big clouds behind us, making me glad that the car hasn't been recently washed.  We slow down as a mama duck and her ducklings cross the road and enter a ditch and hide in the grass.

We drive over the small bridge that brings us over Bayou Chene.  A family is standing on the edge of the bridge peering into the water below.  Several young boys take aim with their BB guns at a turtle or a stump or perhaps a snake.  We wave and continue westward, coming to a stop sign where the washboard road makes us bounce a bit.   After a minute or two, we turn onto a paved road and drive due south for about 3 miles, reaching our destination.

We get out of the car and go inside.  Right behind the glass case under a heat lamp, we see our prize - Boudin Balls!  Boudin that has been battered and deep fried!  Sometimes we get the plain spicy boudin balls.  Other times we get the boudin balls stuffed with jalapenos and cheese!

We climb back inside the car with the box of boudin balls and dole out napkins for everyone.  We can never wait until we get home to eat them.  Boudin balls are quite tricky to eat in the car.  As you bite into them, the napkin doesn't quite catch the pieces of rice and meat that fall onto your shirt and into the cracks of the car seat. 

We drive back home full of boudin and turn back in our driveway.  The sun is now setting as we disembark.  It is a nice little treat that we enjoy.  Boudin balls are hard to beat!