The CHFF New Orleans tailgate

This is our plan:

 

The 225 Club, the Cold, Hard Football Facts girthy test-kitchen crew, is going to throw a New Orleans-style tailgate Sunday in the cardboard-box world headquarters to celebrate the Saints' first trip to the conference title game.

 

There are plenty of reasons for the celebration:

If you're not familiar with Louisiana Cookin', check it out. The magazine is filled with tons of great feature stories and recipes representing the best of the state's amazing cuisines.

 

They're also fighting to recover, just like everyone else in New Orleans. The Chief Troll had dinner with the publisher, Romney Richard, and her family down in New Orleans just a few days before Katrina rolled into town.

 

They got out of town, but their home and offices were wiped out. They immediately moved back to New Orleans and began rebuilding their lives – and their magazine. When we talked to them this week, they were still running everything out of a trailer – 17 months after the hurricane.

 

They hope to be back in a real office and a real home real soon. In the meantime, they continue to turn out a great friggin' magazine, and sent us tons of recipes for our New Orleans tailgate when we asked for them.

 

Here's some of the recipes we've pulled together courtesy of Richard and the crew at Louisiana Cookin':

By Kerry Byrne