Anyone cooking up Mardi Gras?
Any serious eaters cooking up some Mardi Gras dishes this year? Or will you be eating out for it? Tell us what and where...Thanks!
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32 Comments:
I'm actually heading down to Mardi Gras on Friday for five whole days! My friend's parents have been kind enough to let us stay at their house and his dad will be cooking for us... Yum! I can't wait to get my hands on some of that jambalaya!
jmfors at 10:03AM on 02/18/09
We are going to attempt doughnuts I think, I'm excited.
annabanannas at 10:09AM on 02/18/09
I always go crazy since I'm from Mobile. I'll usually have a bunch of people over for gumbo, make muffalettas, ettouffe, king cake, etc
aimingforzero at 10:23AM on 02/18/09
The kids love helping with purple/yellow/green sugar cookies. We divide plain dough, colour each portion, and let everybody play. Clean hands, of course, and trying not to handle it too much so the colours remain clear. Interesting to see how the same three colours end up in many different designs, depending upon how the person puts them together.
We also like traditional King's Cake. The bakeries have it but it tends to be dry and boring. I do buy packzi because I don't want to have them in the house and no recipe makes fewer than 20 or more! So I buy one as a treat.
morgancain at 11:05AM on 02/18/09
We're doing Emeril's Gumbo on Saturday or Sunday...with some sticky rice and fried Okra with Mardi Gras in mind...
sammie at 11:07AM on 02/18/09
We're having a crawfish boil! Ordered some to be delivered from LA. Thinking of making some jambalaya or maybe mufalletas too.
jlbrach at 12:27PM on 02/18/09
Mardi Gras day I will be on the street. Saturday I will be cooking for my brother's open house for the Edymion parade. We will have Emeril's classic seafood Gumbo, lots of french bread and King Cake and lots of alcoholic beverages.
NO_Pam at 12:30PM on 02/18/09
I'm in Portland but I'll probably make some gumbo from a recipe I've adapted from Emeril's chicken & sausage gumbo. If I can find some decent shrimp that don't cost a fortune, I'll probably do a shrimp boil, too.
RegrettableFoodie at 5:19PM on 02/18/09
I'll be taking advantage of IHOP's free pancake day. Granted, once you factor in tip and charity donation it ends up not really being free, but it's the Children's Miracle Network, so it's a good cause.
cycorider at 5:46PM on 02/18/09
So glad to hear that some of you will be traveling down here! Mardi Gras is in full swing already (there are people parking in my neighborhood for a parade right now) and I've already had my share of king cake. Last year I tried to make one, but homemade ones don't compare to bakery-made magic. Besides king cake, not much Mardi Gras-themed food going on here. Still too early for crawfish, and the early-season ones are apparently very small this year, so we nixed our Lundi Gras crawfish boil plans.
pearl at 6:11PM on 02/18/09
More then likely going to go out. But I will avoid the area where they have the Mardi Gras itself. It just gets too crazy here plus "been there, done that", when i was younger it was a playground for me, so it is out of my system. Now I like to hang more low key. I forgot that it was coming up. Too busy moving.
pjracz10 at 6:54PM on 02/18/09
Gonna eat Shrimp Creole at Spanky's Sports Bar & Grill in Jacksonville, North Carolina!
fontman at 8:42PM on 02/18/09
Friday I am making jambalaya for a small dinner party. I think over the weekend I will be making mufalletas. I am making a King Cake tonight for Friday as well.
JerzeeTomato at 2:18AM on 02/19/09
Going to a Mardi Gras themed party on the 28th. At the moment I think I'm going to make bourbon spiced pecans.
Rottenmom at 8:27AM on 02/19/09
"Laissez le bontemps rouler!
1stmakearoux at 12:04PM on 02/19/09
I always bake a King Cake. Hmmm looks like this year I just forgot....
Pointy at 1:16PM on 02/19/09
I'll be making Paul Prudhomme's chicken and tasso ham jambalaya (and probably adding some small Maine shrimp in at the very end), with french bread served on the side. Possibly a big green salad. And we'll be drinking Champagne!
Junie at 2:25PM on 02/19/09
It's pancakes at my place! (scratch, of course) But I guess that's more Shrove Tuesday than Mardi Gras...
AliceBlue at 6:50PM on 02/19/09
Our chicken is soaking in buttermilk as I write. It shall be fried and eaten cold while waiting for my favorite parade Saturday.
I also haven't had a king cake yet this year because I can't find one that actually has the baby inside the cake.
schmoosey at 8:51PM on 02/19/09
Yup, we're having neighbors over for red beans and rice, gumbo, gumbo z'herbes, shrimp and grits, boudin platter, and crawfish bread. I've already baked a few king cakes (http://makearoux.blogspot.com/2009/02/king-cake.html), but those are now eaten and I'll be baking a couple more. :)
MakeARoux at 12:08AM on 02/20/09
3 for 1 Bud Light and Handgrenades?
joeqboo at 12:50PM on 02/20/09
Oh yes ma'am! Maque choux and cheese grits, I just whipped them up last night. Deee-lish-us!
Pointy at 1:48PM on 02/20/09
We're going out for Cajun food at either Yat's in Indianapolis or Zydeco's in Mooresville, IN. I'll also be attempting my first king cake. The boyfriend scored a crown at Burger King, so we're set, I think.
Rebecca F. at 4:48PM on 02/20/09
I was hoping to go to NoNo Cafe in Park Slope, Brooklyn, but sadly they've closed.
Looks like I might have to make beignets for myself.
butterface at 5:48PM on 02/20/09
I'm doing the pancakes, which is definitely more Shrove Tuesday, but I'm a high-church Protestant and that's just how we roll. ;) But they will be damn good pancakes. Might do something involving rum and bananas. We shall see.
missmanders at 10:53AM on 02/21/09
We had a big Mardi Gras party here last night in Chengdu - I cooked gumbo for about a 100 people (with the help of a true coon-ass of course), and we boiled 100kg of crawfish. I still have a hangover, great night!
covenofovens at 8:23AM on 02/22/09
I hosted a Mardi Gras party last night here in Indiana (my husband and I recently moved from New Orleans). I cooked up some red beans and rice, shrimp po'boys and a dear friend sent us a king cake. I also made some pecan lace cookies.
Frozen hurricanes and Abita Amber, special ordered from our local liquor store, kept everyone happy!
labcab at 10:19PM on 02/22/09
A good friend has invited me and mine to a Mardi Gras potluck dinner: I'm bringing jambalaya, and contemplating also possibly making a king cake. (So a thank you @MakeARoux for the link -- Now I've got somewhere to start!)
bansidhe at 5:23PM on 02/23/09
Chicken and sausage gumbo here.
I got the recipe from Food Network. I think it's Emeril's. (not really sure)
Involves the whole 45 minute roux thing and is really good!
I'm off tomorrow so will start at about 2:00.
I really want to attempt a king cake but I don't think that will be feasible.
Next year, I hope.
Happy Mardi Gras!
soozm32 at 1:13AM on 02/24/09
@sooz--funny I made that same ( I think) recipe Sunday night and am about to have the leftovers for lunch
Barbecued shrimp and a baguette for us tonight. And some bourbon I'm sure.
negativetouch at 12:03PM on 02/24/09
I would love a king cake!
@schmoosey - And that fried chicken would be nice, too. Mm!
Cabot_Jen at 12:32PM on 02/24/09
Labcab, +5 for the Abita Amber!!!
pearl at 1:09PM on 02/24/09