Last Saturday Top Girl and I went shopping where at some point we decided to get a bite to eat. We drove to our favorite sit-down place to eat on Saturday only to be told the wait would be almost an hour! We left, walking across the parking lot to one of the chain steak…
Mardi Gras
Prejean’s Gumbo
October 12 was national gumbo day, giving me an excuse to make the warm comforting dish. I began making it at the request of Lawyer Boy after he spent one summer in Lafayette, La for an internship. His dad and I visited him while he was there and had the pleasure of eating dinner at…
Mardi Gras Round-Up
Can you tell that I’m a little bit fanatical about Mardi Gras? I thought I would share all my New Orleans influenced and Mardi Gras recipes in one post! Just click on the links below to take you to my favorite recipes. Laissez les bon temps rouler!! From the top right hand corner – Bacon…
Let The Good Times Roll!
This is more of a tip than a recipe. If you have a Mardi Gras party this week and don’t have time to make a King Cake – although here is a really easy one – you can still be the hit of the party. Make some cupcakes with white icing (or buy some) and…
Daube Glace’
Follow my blog with Bloglovin It is so cold here! How about where you live? Tomorrow morning, they tell me it will be about 9F when I leave for work. I hope I don’t have car trouble because I will probably freeze to death. My work clothes are not made for this kind of weather….
Crock Pot Hot Rolls
Nearly every Sunday night, we have “dinner”. I usually cook something that takes more time and effort than either of us prepare during the week. On those nights, we have Rhodes Rolls. At least on those nights that I remember to put them out to rise in the early afternoon. Sometimes we get busy and…
Prejean’s Gumbo
When our oldest son was still an undergrad, he did a summer internship in Lafayette, LA. The hubs and I went to visit him during that summer and had the great privilege of eating at Prejean’s Restaurant. While there, I purchased their cookbook and every fall, that son requests I make gumbo during football season. I…