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Collette crosses cooking cultures

Some people just love to cook. Collette Weaver of Slidell is like that.

She cooks Italian (red sauces and veal parmesan), country (white gravy, and chicken and dumplings), Cajun (white beans, rice dressing and brown jambalaya) and New Orleans (red jambalaya and stuffed mirlitons).[…]

Fishing

Phone-in boat control

There seems to be no end to the number of ways smartphones and tablets can help us. Just about the time I thought I couldn’t be surprised by another smart-electronics revelation, I discovered that they can now operate a bow-mounted trolling motor.[…]

Hunting

LDWF closes roads at Richard K. Yancey WMA

Due to backwater flooding, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has closed several on Richard K. Yancey Wildlife Management area, including Goose Lake Road, Lac-A-Sostien Road, Ross Road, Catfish Bayou Road, Dobbs Bay Road, Blount Road at the Patton Lake Loop trail and all roads on the east side of the Mississippi River levee.[…]