*** UPDATE*** – moving this post back up to the top for greater King Cake awareness. *grins* +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ It’s January again, Epiphany has passed and it’s King Cake, sorry, Mardi Gras season. *grins* Though I do tend to think if it more as King Cake season. The end of the season – Mardi Gras day [...]

Back in February last year, before I was blogging regularly on here, I made a mention of king cake. Well, that time of year has rolled round again, it’s the season for parades and partying, and throwing beads and cups at people, Mardi Gras! I’ll direct you back to last years post for the history [...]

It’s Fourth of July weekend, everyone’s out celebrating, fireworks and bbqs a-plenty.Fete and Feast has a survival guide, with recipes and ideas to help you along. Epicurious has their favourite chilled foods to help you survive the summer weather. Way Out West, Austin, has a list of events happening this weekend in the area, and [...]

A complete mish-mash of cuisines! I love making risotto, it’s so much fun, it tastes delicious. I get all excited about it and enthusiastic. That lasts right up until about halfway through the stock adding part of the process, I’ve been stirring near constantly for 10 minutes and have at least another 10 to go [...]

We’ll start off this week with some Cinco de Mayo recipes from Timeless Gourmet. It’s a holiday I don’t know much about yet, but if there’s good food involved then I’m up for it! Serious Eats appeared twice on our list this week, firstly for a quick guide to grilling (this is part 3, there [...]

An emblematic dish from Louisiana red beans are traditionally made on Mondays. Some quick research (though I can’t comment on the veracity of  the pages I found the information on, they didn’t cite references!) tells me that this stems from Sundays being pork roast day and Mondays being wash day. While the washing and other [...]

Mardi Gras is in the air, Fat Tuesday is nearly upon us, it truly is time to let the good times roll. Come celebrate this time of year with a New Orleans favourite, the King Cake. An enriched coffee cake style dough rolled up with cinnamon sugar and braided into a round. Topped with icing [...]