When you yearn for a pecan praline, but can’t make a batch because it’s raining, and you’ve lived in New Orleans long enough to know what humidity does to a candy recipe, don’t despair. Turn to Chunky Pecan Praline Cookies. These are easy to make—in any weather. You’ll enjoy both the brown sugar taste and […]
Mary Reporting. My mother’s mother, called Grandy by her five grandchildren, loved hats, particularly wide-brimmed, plumed and variously ribboned ones. She rarely left the house without one. As the family story goes, when I was three, I eyed my grandmother in a wide-brimmed hat decorated with a stuffed bird nestled in a circle of tulle and […]
A cheese soufflé is a comfort food, perfect in the cold weather we’ve had in New Orleans lately. What’s more, the ingredients are probably in your refrigerator—milk, butter, sharp cheese, bread, and eggs—so you don’t need to venture out to the store. The word soufflé means breath, so named because it depends on the air […]
Mary Reporting. Tour any Victorian home and invariably there’s an elegant dining room, with every inch of the table’s surface covered with fine china and silver flatware. In the adjacent butler’s pantry, the guide never fails to note that the lady of the house generally washed her own dishes and put them away. She took […]
Mary Reporting. A coddled egg isn’t really the correct term for this dish, but it’s what we always called it in my family. A coddled egg generally refers to an egg in its shell carefully lowered by tablespoon into a pan of boiling water and cooked for six to eight minutes. This egg is baked […]
