Technically Mardi Gras had already passed, but I figured I should let you, my dear readers, know what I made for Mardi Gras. Being Mardi Gras is a Tuesday, the Pre-Mardi Gras party actually hosted by Brian from Louisiana in New York this past Saturday. I got 1 bead without flashing (great news for everyone!). Party features King Cake, seafood gumbo, saute collard greens/watercress, corn bread and beignets!
Many thanks to Andreas for letting me stink up his house with shrimpy smell mixed with burnt flour, Evan and Christine for crab and shrimp cleaning, Alex for killing those succulent crabs, Sinziana for lots of contribution around the kitchen, and Brian for hosting and tolerating our wanton ways in his kitchen. By the way, the smoke alarm at Brian's house went off 2 times within a 2-3 hour period. I bet this had never happened to him before. Also, he has a really nice stove-- I'm very jealous. Pictures on the food after the jump!
Many thanks to Andreas for letting me stink up his house with shrimpy smell mixed with burnt flour, Evan and Christine for crab and shrimp cleaning, Alex for killing those succulent crabs, Sinziana for lots of contribution around the kitchen, and Brian for hosting and tolerating our wanton ways in his kitchen. By the way, the smoke alarm at Brian's house went off 2 times within a 2-3 hour period. I bet this had never happened to him before. Also, he has a really nice stove-- I'm very jealous. Pictures on the food after the jump!
Saute collard greens/watercress, corn bread, seafood gumbo
Just the greens
Seafood gumbo in serving bowl.
This thing is homemade all the way down to the seafood stock!
Beignets-- finished product.
I'm that green monster on the right hand side with the vat of frying oil. I need to scare people away from the beignets!
Bonus gallery:
Close-up shot of just the seafood gumbo! Look at those chunky crab meat... Thanks for picking them out!
Beignets frying-- look at how happy they are bathing in oil...
Beignets getting their trademark powder sugar dusting. Hand model: Sinziana
No pictures of the King Cake, but I can tell you 1 person got both babies in the cake! Also, thanks Andreas for providing color-readjustment to some of the pictures. You can tell which are his and which are mine....
Feast on this over your dusty monitors...
Sorry to disappoint you, but last year when we cooked huge steaks over there his alarm went off at least 5 times :p
ReplyDeleteLooks like I need to beat your record! I'm sure I'll come up with something that would make the smoke alarm go off more than 5 times... within an hour I assume?
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