Never heard of it. What is it Glenda? Ingredients?

I've only had a vegetarian version and it was delicious, made with sauteed mushrooms and an olive relish.

I can eat it but not my favorite. And I LOVE olive burgers.

I love muffalettas.........but they are not easy to find in Seattle, although the ingredients pretty much are.

Your link also has Boudin Balls? It explains what's in the sandwich, but not the wet, creamy look it has. ?? Glenda?

It's just melted cheese - muffs can be served hot or cold :-) And those oysters on the website look divine! I could eat oysters 7 days a week but only if cooked....raw oysters I can only handle now and again.

Full disclosure, I am not a big sandwich fan at any time. But that looks great. And I have had a muffuletta and enjoyed it very much. The ingredients usually include an olive tapenade and Italian spices plus the cheeses, often provolone and mozzarella.

I had my first one in New Orleans at Central Grocery in the mid 1970s, but also make my own now. It's important to have ham, Mortadella, salami, and Provolone in them. When I make the olive salad, I add some minced giardiniera salad to it as well, plus dried oregano and olive oil, unless the olives have oil. I've never had one that was heated or had melted cheese, however. I generally use ciabatta bread to make them. I used to go to New Orleans every year in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Recipe is in this thread from the cooking forum.

Love them when they are made right.

My favorite lunch

I'm a wine club member at the Francis Ford Coppola Winery in Geyserville, CA. There is a restaurant at the winery, named Rustic, Francis's Favorites, that serves many of his favorite dishes. A Muffaletta sandwich is on the menu. I've never had it, but I'm guessing a whole sandwich must be huge. The description (and prices) of it is as follows:

I love them, although I can never eat a whole one.

Gardengal, I love oysters too. My all time favorite food! I need to remind my husband to bring a quart home. When I have them, I eat them every meal until gone. A quart doesn't last but a couple of days though.

marilyn, I also live where fresh oysters are plentiful and of very high quality. Unfortunately, with no fisherman in my life, I have to pay for them - and they are not necessarily cheap - so cannot indulge myself as often as I like :-) And pan fried with a very light breading are my favorites! By themselves or in a po'boy. A local pub just down the street does oyster sliders and I have been known to put quite a few of those away!!

I ordered half a sandwich plus a cup of chicken and andiouille sausage gumbo. Ate half of the half sandwich, took the rest home along with the gumbo. Now in the freezer.

Mine was heated. The bread is delicious!

nicole, have had the boudin balls, not my favorite.

Their oysters are the best. Fried, I love plus the grilled smoked oysters are outstanding.

There were 18 of us that went for lunch, the other day, and not one person had a complaint about anything.

Glenda, do you know a barbecue place in B'ham named Shaw's? If so...is it good?

Oops...I think it is Saw's.

Saw's is what you are referring to

saws

Andrew Zimmerman was here back in the fall and went to SAW'sJuke Joint, which is in Crestline. Taylor Hicks, winner of America's Got Talent, is there.

There are 3 here, but SAW's Soul Food is the best They are known for their grits with collard greens served with pork on top. I like their Carolina burgers.

My son's office is right across the street from this SAWS., in Avondale.

Never had one, but I clicked on the link to that restaurant and boy, did it make me hungry!!! I've never had grilled oysters but may try some on the Vineyard next summer. When we lived in LA, the old Hamburger Hamlet was still in Brentwood and they had a burger that was topped with fried oysters and peanuts and a bit of hot sauce. OMG that was good!!!

Requirements for any trip to New Orleans

Muffuletta from Central's Grocery - check

Beignets from Café du Monde - check

I've been to two Saw's in Birmingham, the one in Avondale and the one in Homewood. I'd describe them as good, not great. Very busy all the same

If in Avondale, right next door (but for a small alleyway) is Post Office Pies. I think that place is quite good. It's pizza pies, not pies. I would call them simple but carefully handmade in front of you and very tasty. The owner apparently "went north" to study cooking and came back after a time with the idea for this restaurant. (He may also own another, I don't remember). It can also be quite busy.

The Cajun Boys that opened closest to me serves beignets all week, but on Saturday's they open at 7 for beignets and chicory coffee, plus reg coffee.

When I would buy a muffuletta at Central Grocery, I would cut it into fourths, as that was as much as I could eat at one time. It made a very economic meal for meal at a time when I did not have much money. I also went to a soul food restaurant in the 1970s where you could get beans and rice for 60¢, and that included all the French bread you could eat with it.

Love them. Have had them from many places including of course Central Grocery. Some better than others but I enjoyed them all.

Never heard of it. If it's spicy, I wouldn't like it.

DH and I met up with my brother Mike and his family and another sister and her family in New Orleans several years ago. Just after Mardi Gras. We were told you MUST get a muffaletta, a beignet and a hand grenade. Loved all 3!!!

What is a hand grenade....is it a drink?

I love muffalettas. Well, I mainly love olive salad. I once got some olive salad and French bread from Jason's deli. Then I took it home and made a provolone and olive salad grilled cheese. Mmmmmmm

Now I am not eating bread...I want one more than ever.....

My WalMart carries the olive salad. You can order it from Amazon as well.

Sorry, Glenda, but I don't like olives, so I don't think I would care for the sandwich unless I could order it without the olive salad. I'm thinking if I did that, I'd be missing the whole point of the sandwich. It looks delicious though!

Now, hubby. He would adore it. Olives are one of his favorite foods in the whole wide world!

It's not a spicy thing but it definitely is an olive thing lol. I love Olives! I buy it in the jar some time. It's good on Crackers.

Not cheap, the olive salad.

I love them. For years one of my occasional summer jobs was working at a faire next door to a bakery, and I helped out the lady in the back get stuff set up for baking sometimes. She made all sorts of pressed rounds filled with good stuff for sharing with her helpers. All cold versions, including a cold cut version of muffuletta. What made it was indeed that olive stuff, mmmm. She gave me a love for big rounds meant to be shared.

I make my own sometimes in the summer, a local place has a great olive salad. Never tried it with oysters though, that sounds yummy.

One of my all time favorite sandwiches is a grilled cream cheese and olive sandwich! Yummy! Might have to see if my Walmart carries that olive salad to use with cream cheese...

Glenda....never had a Mufflaletta or Boudin Balls....what's in a Boudin Ball?

(I fix DH a sandwich every day for his lunch...so I try not to eat them any other time, but he might like a Muffaletta)

I've heard of them but haven't ever had one ... yet. Sounds really good to me.

Regarding raw oysters, I absolutely love them (if briny). But .... and I'm a bit embarrassed to say this, I cannot eat them now, ever since I learned that they die when I bite into them. I thought they died when opened and released from the shell .... but no. I simply cannot bite into a living thing .... even an oyster.

Yeah, I know. I'm giving up something I find delicious because I'm a bleeding heart. Oh well!

nicole, I'm not a fan of boudin balls, but many enjoy them.

Cajun boudin sausage contains a seasoned mixture of pork and rice similar to a dirty rice dressing. Deep fried and served with romoulade sauce.

LOVE! A favorite memory is when I was on a tour and we were in NO and had a free afternoon, I left my traveling companion (Mom) in the room to rest and I went out and walked around in the heat and humidity. I had a great walk around in the beautiful city and stopped into a small cafe for a sandwich and first of all the a/c was such a treat LOL and then I had a glass of wine and a muffaletta sitting at a small table at the front window watching the people go by - nothing better than people watching in NO and great food and wine didn't hurt either.

I love olives. I would probably like it, then.

Nicole inside a boudin ball is boudin lol. Boudin is a mix of cooked rice onions and green onions lots of spices and herbs and Chopped up cooked Meats. It can be organ Meats, ground beef or pork and some even use ground chicken. Normally the mixture is put in a sausage skin and sold in links. The balls use the mixture rolled into a ball, put in batter and deep fried.

My doctors won't allow me to eat raw Oysters any more. I love them in any form.

I don't eat raw oysters. We have friends in the oyster business, so I get them in quarts. I don't think they have a very highly developed nervous system, so I wouldn't think they suffer very much....but I understand...

I have had it both ways, fried in balls and like the one raven shared. Cajun Boys, here, serves them fried and SAW's serves it like raven's. Not a fan either way.

marilyn, yes it's a drink. a whopper of a drink haha. Here's the website of the place that sells them. We were told to only go to this place to get it. Walked for blocks and blocks haha.

http://tropicalisle.com/home-of-the-hand-grenade-new/the-hand-grenade/

I've never had one.

I've been to New Orleans several times, haven't found the local dishes to be much to my liking. I won't be looking for deep fried sausage balls anytime soon.

Those who like olive concoctions may like French tapinade. It's chopped up olives and capers, with a fruity olive oil. Other things are sometimes added. Delicious on crusty bread or crackers, or as a condiment. Available in jars in grocery stores but also easy to make at home.