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Canned Biscuit Dough Donuts
Canned Biscuit Donuts Have you ever made canned biscuit donuts? It’s a fun, semi-homemade way to make donuts. We’re planning on making them tomorrow morning for Christmas breakfast. I’ll probably...
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Brabant Potatoes
Brabant Potatoes Brabant Potatoes are a popular New Orleans side dish. They are diced potatoes cooked crispy tender and tossed in a pungent butter sauce. Sort of like garlicky, cubed French fries....
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Grillades and Grits (Smoked Gouda Grits)
Grillades and Grits According to the turn of the century cookbook, The Picayune Creole Cook Book, a grillade (pronounced “gree-yahd”) is a square of fried meat cooked down with onions, tomatoes,...
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Andouille, Spinach-Mushroom and Brie Bread Pudding
Andouille, Spinach-Mushroom and Brie Bread Pudding Do you all realize there are only two Thursdays between now and Thanksgiving? How did that happen? Why isn’t Thanksgiving on November 29, instead...
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Pumpkin Pound Cake with Praline Glaze
Pumpkin Pound Cake with Praline Glaze Every year around this time, I get the urge to experiment with canned pumpkin. I like working it into both savory and sweet dishes. This year, I took the dessert...
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Finger Food Friday: Egg Salad Toasts
Egg Salad Toasts I have certain simple finger foods I adore. Simple in that they require little to no cooking. Let me tell you about three of them. The first is canned sardines on Triscuits (Garden...
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Blueberry Gateau
Blueberry Gateau A Blueberry Gateau (or gâteau if you choose to write it as the French would with a circumflex accent, not unlike the one over the second “e” in my name) is simply a blueberry cake. In...
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Lost Bread
Lost Bread Pain Perdu is French for “lost bread.” In New Orleans, the two terms are used interchangeably to describe the City’s decadent take on French toast. Our version reflects one of many ways we...
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Chewy Oatmeal Cookies
Chewy Oatmeal Cookies My kids have been back in school for only a month now and I’m already struggling with school snacks. Mind you, all three are beyond designated snack times. But to get them...
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Finger Food Friday: Creole Candied Bacon
Creole Candied Bacon I’m sharing another sweet, well savory-sweet, finger food recipe with you all today since we’re in full holiday mode and I’m sure plenty of you are either hosting parties or...
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