grits

Dig into tamale waffles, topped with shredded beef and two eggs or rich, cheesy shrimp and grits.

The aroma of Mississippi-style gumbo, shrimp and grits, and peach cobbler cinnamon rolls is enough to make me hungry too, but JP doesn’t seem to care about food.

You’ll want clamps of various sizes to hold pieces together while drilling or assembling, along with sandpaper in a range of grits.

During the festival, food available on site includes crawfish bread, pecan catfish meuniere and catfish almondine, cochon de lait and turducken po-boys, boudin, crawfish étouffée, jambalaya, crawfish Monica and shrimp and grits.

In Kirkland, Donnelly will unveil his biggest restaurant yet on Monday: a massive two-story, 5,000-square-foot RockCreek Seafood & Spirits that includes all the hits from his Fremont stomping grounds, like the shrimp and grits, the Chilean sea bass and the grilled octopus.