Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Happy Mardi Gras!

Stacy in a very nice voicemail pointed out that I've been neglecting the blog. It is true. I've been a little uninspired in the cooking department because I'm between kitchens. My version of cooking has been carrots and hummus or apples and peanut butter. But I have been dreaming up my next project (veggie burgers.)

Anyway Stacy suggested this post. I'm leaving for a conference tomorrow morning, but if I weren't I'd be making red beans and rice and king cake and trying to coax my coworkers to come over for dinner. I'm still going to devote a solid hour of packing/butt shaking in honor of my hometown.

Here's a recipe for king cake. (The only thing that is tricky is that this is basically a sweet yeast bread. So the yeast has to be alive (it will react to hot sugar water) and, like a bowl of goldfish, it doesn't like to be left anywhere drafty or sunny or cold or hot.