Today, for the next installment of Rafe and Juliet’s Anniversary Dinner, we’re serving serving another southern favorite filled with shrimp, sausage, potatoes, and corn-on-the-cob: Savannah Shrimp Boil. It’s a specialty at Boudreaux’s outdoor kitchen here on the Isle of Grace.
Rafe Montfort ~ “Juliet was so surprised when Father Quinn appeared to renew our vows, but not as surprised as I was when I saw that her friends Sarah and Samantha had set the tables.
You see, Boudreaux’s is an intensely casual place. It’s known for its picnic tables covered with brown paper, beer in coolers around the outdoor dance floor, Cajun band playing all night beneath massive oak trees, an outdoor kitchen that serves food on paper plates, and red Solo cups filled with sweet tea. But Juliet’s friends decided to dress up Boudreaux’s with tablecloths, place settings, linen napkins, flowers on the table, and actual crystal.
I know it seems silly, but seeing this run-down restaurant (I use the word lightly) deep in the woods on the Isle of Grace transformed with lights in the trees, china plates, and bottles of champagne in iced buckets means everything to me. It’s not the fact we’ll be eating elegantly, it’s the fact that these women–and my buddies who love them–put in all of this effort to make tonight extra special.
Now it’s time for one of my favorite meals–one of the meals I missed most while I’d been gone–Savannah Shrimp Boil. It’s a spicy, hands-on, messy meal eaten in community with friends and family. And I’m so grateful to have those friends and family–and especially my beautiful wife Juliet–to share it all with.”
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