This Slow Cooker Creole Chicken and Sausage comes together easily with chicken, Andouille sausage, a variety of vegetables, and creole seasoning. You are ten minutes of prep and three hours on high heat (or 6-8 hours on low heat) away from a comforting and spicy meal. I recently had a request to share more slow…
#SundaySupper Easy Mardi Gras Recipes: New Orleans Brandy Milk Punch
With Mardi Gras on Tuesday, #SundaySupper is getting together with a collection of easy recipes to celebrate. Marion of Life Tastes Good is hosting this week and I am sharing a recipe for New Orleans Brandy Milk Punch. This cocktail originated at Brennan’s in New Orleans and is now popular throughout the city (and even the…
Tagliatelle Dolci di Carnevale (Italian Carnival Sweet Tagliatelle) and Mardi Gras/Carnival Round-Up
Tagliatelle Dolci di Carnevale is a delicious Carnival snack from the Emilia Romagna region of Italy. A sheet of pasta dough is sprinkled with sugar and orange zest, rolled up cinnamon roll-style, and sliced into spirals. These sweet pasta spirals are fried until crisp and golden before serving with a dusting of powdered sugar. I…
Cinnamon Cream Cheese Ice Cream
Happy Shrove Tuesday! Today I am sharing with you a Cinnamon Cream Cheese Ice Cream filled with the flavors of a King Cake. A sweetened milk and cream base is thickened with eggs, then mixed with cream cheese, vanilla, and cinnamon. I paired the ice cream with a cinnamon brown sugar syrup. I originally planned…
Cajun Spice Mix
I generally make my own spice mixes because 1) I can make a certain amount so I don’t have half a bottle hanging around until it passes its expiration date and 2) I can control the amount of the different spices added for my own tastes. This Cajun Spice Mix has a combination of kosher salt,…
Authentic Portuguese Cooking Review and Filhós à Alentejana (Portuguese Crispy Orange-Flavored Alentejo Pastries)
Authentic Portuguese Cooking, written by Ana Patuleia Ortins, is a delicious introduction to the mild in spice, but rich in flavor Portuguese cuisine with a collection of over 185 authentic, homestyle dishes from Portugal, the Azores, and Madeira. It is the follow-up to Ortins’ first book: Portuguese Homestyle Cooking. While a few featured recipes may be familiar to…
Mardi Gras/Carnival Round-Up 2016
Mardi Gras/Carnival/Carnevale/Carnaval/Karneval is the last day of the Carnival season that starts after the Epiphany. The first Mardi Gras celebration in the United States took place in present day Mobile in 1703. Other areas famous for their Carnival celebrations include Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Europe, and the United States (Louisiana). Here is a round-up…
Spritzkuchen (German Crullers)
Spritzkuchen are German Crullers popular during the Karneval season and other festivals. They are said to have originated in Eberswalde (Eberswalder Spritzkuchen), a town northeast of Berlin near the Polish border, in 1832. The base is made from a choux dough, then piped into circles and fried until golden. They are topped with a sugar…
Waffle Pão de Queijo (Brazilian Cheese Bread Waffles)
It is Carnaval time in Brazil! During the pre-Lenten celebrations, parties, parades, costumes, dancing, and food are everywhere- especially street food. Two years ago, I posted a recipe for Pão de Queijo (Brazilian Cheese Bread). An increasingly popular variation of this in Brazil is Waffle Pão de Queijo. This is an incredibly easy recipe to…
Mardi Gras/Carnival Round-Up
I usually like to post a week of recipes for holidays, but February is definitely a popular month this year. Valentine’s Day is next Saturday on the 14th. The week after is also Mardi Gras and Lunar New Year. I’m only adding a couple of new recipes for Mardi Gras/Carnival this year, but here is…
