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While Kathleen is comfortable cooking any dish, they host a dinner party for over 93 people at the drop of a hat. Recently they had one with wildlife entrees. She made eight gallons of turtle soup. She cooked two large venison roasts that Burton?s friend gave him in exchange for some ducks. She barbecued 80 ducks and also made alligator sauce picante.
I had to get the recipe for that: Saute eight pounds of boneless alligator meat. Take it out of pan and brown chopped onion, bell pepper and celery and take it out. Add flour to oil and made a roux and then put all back in with tomato and Tabasco sauce (depending on how hot you want it). Season with thyme and other spices to flavor, cook until tender and serve over rice.
She served with wild rice and other side dishes and for dessert made Amaretto cake, chocolate cake with cherry and rum and two kinds of bread pudding.
The Kemps maintain an efficiency apartment in New Orleans on the parade route and find it convenient for when they go to events in New Orleans. They go down for four days of Mardi Gras and have open house each evening for up to 100 people with Kathleen preparing red beans and rice, gumbo and other dishes.
They have four children. Burton IV lives in Slidell with his wife Beth and two children: Burt V, who is into computers, and Stephanie, who competes in rodeo events and has recently won a belt buckle.
Daughter Kay Gannon has two children and lives in New Orleans. At 14, son Christopher is on the Argentina Youth Polo Team and competes all over the world. Kathleen rides show horses. Daughter Gretchen Kemp is a kindergarten teacher at Washington Elementary School on St. Claude in New Orleans.
Kathleen goes over once a week to do special projects for the students. The first week in February, they made Valentine cookies and decorated them. The second week, they made king cakes.	----
Sew good
Kathleen learned to do French embroidery and hand sewing when she was in high school. When the children came along, she made all the girls? nice clothes with smocking and French handsewing and embroidery. She has taught several people. She and a friend made clothes for Lord and Taylor department store in New Orleans.
She seldom uses a pattern. She made her three daughters? confirmation dresses and most recently made one for her youngest granddaughter, Mallory.
Mallory helped her design the dress and it was sewn in tiers from imported Swiss batiste with insets using entredeaux to join the pieces together. She made the dress with enough material that it can be converted into a wedding skirt when Mallory is ready for marriage. She made eight handmade bridesmaid?s dresses with smocking and embroidery for one daughter?s garden wedding where they entertained 800 guests.
Do-it-herself	i
When the Kemps decided to build an addition to their home, Kathleen was dissatisfied with the contractor and fired him and finished the addition herself, with the help of a friend.
She had to straighten out the walls and windows and finish the rooms, even paint and put down the parquet floors.
She used a unique method to select the color for the formal dining room walls. Rising at sunrise each day, she would put a swatch of paint on the wall until she matched the color of the sun on the wall. She calls it Sunrise, and it is between a light peach or light coral with white trim.
She had Kitchens by Cameron build her cabinets and install them. She also added a bath and laundry and storage room. She remodeled the existing kitchen and added an icemaker machine, a small dishwasher and cabinets where doors and windows, the refrigerator and the stove had been. She took the cabinets that she moved' from that kitchen and built a wall of cabinets and shelves in the living , room and then cabinet and shelves beside the fireplace where windows had been.