It's Fat Tuesday!

[liuzhou]

7 minutes ago, catdaddy said:

Han Mardi Gras tradition?

 

 

Every day!

[liuzhou]

19 minutes ago, Anna N said:

Much more interesting than stodgy, syrup laden disks. But I have a soft spot in my heart for the ones I remember being served on Shrove Tuesday. They were more like crepes and served with a sprinkling of sugar and a squeeze from a fresh orange.  

 

I remember fresh lemon. Never orange.

Edited February 27, 2020 by liuzhou (log)

[Anna N]

6 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

 

I remember fresl emon. Never orange.

We were a family of wusses.

[Margaret Pilgrim]

Crepes with sugar and lemon are an elegant dinner party dessert.     If you are feeling over the top, serve with a dollop of lemon curd...and a drizzle of softly whipped cream

[gfweb]

On 2/25/2020 at 7:38 PM, Tri2Cook said:

Laziness and persistence from the kid regarding her preference won out. That and I just had Cajun recently. So pancakes with sausage (homemade) it was. Picture is pre-maple syrup. Didn't want it soaking in and getting everything soggy while I did the photo thing. 

whats your sausage recipe?

[Tri2Cook]

2 hours ago, gfweb said:

whats your sausage recipe?

I use brown sugar, salt, pepper, cayenne, crushed red pepper, dried thyme, ground coriander, dried sage and the thing that finally brought it together. I kept messing with the proportions of the aforementioned ingredients and couldn't get exactly what I was looking for. The flavor was nice, it just wasn't really popping . So I tossed a little MSG in my next batch and that was the ticket. I'm not super careful with the measurements but for 1 pound ground pork I use about 1 tsp brown sugar, 1 tsp salt, 3/4 tsp pepper, 1/2 tsp crushed red pepper, 1/4 tsp thyme, 1/4 tsp coriander, 1/4 tsp MSG and anywhere from 1/2 to 1 tsp cayenne and sage depending on what I'm in the mood for at the moment. Sometimes I go even higher on both the cayenne and crushed red pepper and I've left the sage out completely a few times. I've also substituted a couple tbsp. maple syrup for the brown sugar. I've made a mild version by leaving out the cayenne and using less crushed red pepper. Basically, I got a base sausage I was happy with and I just play around with it now and then.

[heidih]

Needing distraction in Pandemic times I advocate a big run up to Mardi Gras.  Great ideas in this topic. It is early this year - 16 Feb - so just 2 weeks out. I am all in for being a piglet. Makes Lent almost a relief - ah I am so virtuous (not) So?????

[Shelby]

9 hours ago, heidih said:

Needing distraction in Pandemic times I advocate a big run up to Mardi Gras.  Great ideas in this topic. It is early this year - 16 Feb - so just 2 weeks out. I am all in for being a piglet. Makes Lent almost a relief - ah I am so virtuous (not) So?????

I always love reading this thread from the beginning.  Very strange to read last years posts...right before the shit hit the fan....

 

I've ordered a muffuletta sandwich kit to be delivered on Fat Tuesday.  Hopefully it gets here.  I have oysters.  I have cute little masks on toothpicks to poke in either a king cake or cinnamon rolls or something.  

[chromedome]

42 minutes ago, Shelby said:

I always love reading this thread from the beginning.  Very strange to read last years posts...right before the shit hit the fan....

 

IIRC, last year's Mardi Gras played a large role in facilitating the introduction of fan to feces.

[Shelby]

Just now, chromedome said:

IIRC, last year's Mardi Gras played a large role in facilitating the introduction of fan to feces.

You're very right.  I see there are no parades this year and, while I hate that it has to be this way,  that is a good thing.

[rotuts]

this should all be done on Zoom .

 

Period .

 

Ive never had a problem Personal-Beverage-ing @ home.

[blue_dolphin]

Seeing this pop up reminds me that there's a local place that's been offering New Orleans style take-out from their catering kitchen, which obviously isn't doing much catering these days.  

Ordering for one doesn't allow for much variety but I'm thinking I could start with a Po Boy with some slaw for lunch and at the same time pick up an order of seafood jambalaya to warm up for dinner. 

I'll give them a try and report back.  

[chileheadmike]

My wife was out running errands this afternoon and stopped by Jason's Deli for a 1/2 of a muffuletta. 

Pretty tasty. 

[heidih]

7 hours ago, blue_dolphin said:

Ordering for one doesn't allow for much variety but I'm thinking I could start with a Po Boy with some slaw for lunch and at the same time pick up an order of seafood jambalaya to warm up for dinner. 

 

As long as your freezer is not suffering from Pandemic "Freshman 15" I think the dishes like jambalaya and gumbo are excellent candidates for a now & later feast. 

 

I am linking our dear late @Pierogi eG blog which she did during Mardi Gras 2011. Roberta did King Cake early on and jambalaya later in the week If time permits a fun read overall sprinkled with her special humor.   https://forums.egullet.org/topic/137499-eg-foodblog-pierogi-2011-rollin-the-bon-temps-on-the-left-co/

 

[kayb]

The first of this year's King cakes. Made two last night, glazed and sprinkled this morning.

 

Edited February 6, 2021 by kayb (log)

[Smithy]

1 hour ago, kayb said:

The first of this year's King cakes. Made two last night, glazed and sprinkled this morning.

 

 

That's beautiful! The gold charger plate under it is the perfect complement.

[kayb]

Love these chargers. Plastic, a buck apiece at Dollar Tree. I get a dozen or so every Christmas.

[blue_dolphin]

In training for the actual event, I sampled a couple of items from the local place I mentioned above. 

A sautéed shrimp Po'boy:

Very messy to eat but the shrimp were perfectly cooked and aside from the sorry winter tomatoes, this was delicious

 

An order of seafood jambalaya:

This was a bit salty for my taste but everything was nicely cooked.  I ate about half and put the rest in the freezer.  I could pull it out for Tuesday or order something else. The seafood étouffée keeps calling my name!

 

[Allura]

Our church is having a Zoom Mardi Gras party, so I've ordered from them. Expecting red beans & rice (with sausage), pancakes, and king cake. Yes, I know, pancakes?!? But the church had a long tradition of a pancake supper for Shrove Tuesday, and then the current priest came and she's originally from the south. So Mardi Gras AND pancakes now. We're supposed to pick up and then get online to eat together. I'll probably make SOMETHING on the side bc it sounds like a bit more of a carb fest than is healthy for me. 

[liuzhou]

Fancy some pancakes? Here’s a 16th century recipe which uses “two or three spoonefuls of ale” — (from The Good Huswifes Jewell, an English cookery book from 1585)

 

Image and text is Public Domain via the British Library.

[Anna N]

2 hours ago, liuzhou said:

Fancy some pancakes?

I just love the use of that very technical culinary term “stuffe”. Do you know what “Creame a pine” means?

[liuzhou]

1 minute ago, Anna N said:

I just love the use of that very technical culinary term “stuffe”. Do you know what “Creame a pine” means?

 

A pint of cream.

[Anna N]

Just now, liuzhou said:

 

A pint of cream.

Ah. Thanks. 

[liuzhou]

26 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

I just love the use of that very technical culinary term “stuffe”.

 

It was culinary term, meaning "stock or provision of food" or simply "food". Alternatively, it could mean foodstuffs used to stuff a fowl, a pie etc.

[Shelby]

Happy Mardi Gras!

 

I'm bummed.  My muffuletta was supposed to be here today.  UPS tells me a shipping label was created, but it's never shipped.  Sigh.  I'm going to scrounge around to see what I can find here.  I think I have some andouille sausage.  I know I have some crawfish tails.  Internet has been down for me....dunno if it's because it feels like -30 or what, but it needs to stay up 'cause I have some googling to do!