The Mardi Gras season is here! For this week’s chocolate dish, I have elected to bake a king cake with chocolate filling, a traditional Mardi Gras dessert. For most of the rest of the country, the seasonal party-energy build up is around the Christmas and New Year holiday, but for New Orleans, Yuletide is but […]
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Happy Mardi Gras Red Beans and Rice
Happy Mardi Gras! Maybe next year I can convince Rochester to hold a second line parade on this important New Orleans feast day. Otherwise I gotta get me back to my Mondo Kayo. A wonderful friend sent me a post card with a quotation from Chris Rose on what Mardi Gras means… …”It is annual […]
Happy Mardi Gras!
It was a foggy morning in Jackson Square, and although it is raining now, it did not rain on our parade! We started marching at 7:30am, right out before Zulu. My costume was a bit cerebral in retrospect. Here I am as an anatomical heart, which seemed appropriate due to this year’s Mardi Gras’s proximity […]
Cinnamon Swirl Bread
Do not be daunted by what appears to be a very very long recipe. It is worth every step. The delayed gratification in this baking endeavor is analogous to the very very long drive KP and I are about to make to New Orleans, worth every mile, worth each second of 18 hours. Izzy has […]
King Cake
Amid weekend travel and a looming thesis deadline, last night I did not bake bread but I heartily enjoyed a fantastic king cake made by Kim and her Wheaten Terrier Max, the latter a handsome potential suitor for Izzy. Perhaps we could have a short Mardi Gras parade here in Rochester, Barkus, and crown King […]