Old recipes can be like french fries and potato chips. One leads to another, then another and then another, and so on. Until you look up and find yourself in the bottom of a rabbit hole surrounded by ...

Enough already with the beignets! Eat some calas. In bowl, combine rice, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and nutmeg and mix well. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well. Heat vegetable oil for ...

Chef Frank Brigtsen's notes: BBQ Shrimp was created at Pascal's Manale Restaurant in New Orleans. It has nothing to do with a BBQ pit or BBQ sauce. The main ingredients are jumbo Louisiana shrimp, ...

Good Food Calas for Mardi Gras Gisele Perez is a caterer ( Small Pleasures Catering ) and food blogger in LA. Her hometown is New Orleans where her grandmother made calas, like beignets, but made with ...

Finally, today is Mardi Gras, the last day of celebration before the solemn season of Lent, which starts tomorrow in the Western or Catholic calendar. Of course, we must speak of food because the day ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA– There are few things ...

calas (African rice fritters) :A Baker’s Odyssey: Celebrating Time-Honored Recipes Fro America’s Rich Immigrant Heritage,” by Greg Patent; Wiley; $34.95 Kelly Gorham Makes about 36 fritters This ...

Today, many Mardi Gras tables will be filled with good food, including beignets. But there's another Creole treat that's lesser known. Chef Gisele Perez shares a recipe and history of Calas. Finally, ...