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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 136: Can There Be a Po'Boy Diet?

We're headed all over the country for the book, but I feel compelled to tell you about our day in New Orleans on Tuesday, not because I'm looking for excuses, but just so you'll know what I am up against in my Serious Diet. We had a very specific eating agenda in New Orleans that day: to fully explore New Orleans' po'boy culture. Which means we ended up eating 23 sandwiches.

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7 Comments | Posted by Ed Levine, September 10, 2010 at 10:00 AM
Tagged: beignets, Ed Levine's Serious Diet, fried chicken, Morning Call, New Orleans, po boys, sandwiches, Serious Eats book

La Chandeleur Et Crêpes

Bea of La Tartine Gourmand has a beautiful recipe for buckwheat herb galettes and mixed salad and a story about a festival that sounds right up my alley: "Earlier this month, I was reminded, once more too late, that on February 2nd, we celebrated la chandeleur. I wonder how comes that I simply can forget since it happens every year. In France, this originally Catholic festivity calls for cooks to prepare crêpes and beignets (doughnuts). Indeed, on the day of la chandeleur, the customs is to eat crêpes !"...

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Post a Comment | Posted by Lia Bulaong, February 19, 2007 at 3:33 PM
Tagged: beignets, crepes, doughnuts, France, galettes, holiday foods, La Chandeleur, recipes

Wafu Beignets

If you enjoyed Roadfood Roundup: Doughnuts and have the means to deep-fry at home, you might want to try making Nordljus' Wafu Beignets—oh how I love the idea of twenty small freshly-made cream-filled sesame-coated doughnuts, made just for me. Keiko also makes them with azuki red bean paste inside or with raspberry jam filling and a cinnamon sugar coating for her boyfriend, so tweak the recipe as you will....

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Post a Comment | Posted by Lia Bulaong, February 5, 2007 at 3:55 PM
Tagged: beignets, dessert, doughnuts, pastry, recipes