Helen Reporting, These pretty orange muffins are low in fat and so delicious they can be eaten without butter. Sweet potato muffins are more like sweet potato bread; they are sweetened mostly by the potatoes rather than with a lot of sugar. A real treat without the morning sugar rush you get from other breakfast […]
Helen Reporting, This handwritten recipe also has, as a subtitle, (Tea cakes / Aunt Mary Campbell). Not sure who she was but if she had a hand in these cookies, her distant descendants are grateful. We know these cookies come from Virginia and the relatives there raved over them. They are delicious, faintly sophisticated, […]
Helen Reporting, This year I made my own King Cakes from scratch. Between January 6 and Mardi Gras, New Orleanians eat King Cake. As Rouses Grocery says, “a tiny, plastic baby representing the infant Jesus is inserted into the cake. Tradition holds that the person who gets the piece with the baby in it is […]
Helen Reporting: While many people are getting ready for the Super Bowl later this week, if you live in New Orleans, another exciting event is Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras comes once a year in New Orleans and includes food, fun, beads, and of course, huge parades. These parades feature floats that are not only amazing to […]
Helen Reporting Macaroons are pale gold coconut confections, half-cookie, half-cake. No one knows exactly who made the first one or in what country, but French bakers were praised for these confections as early as the17th century. Creole Cookery, printed in New Orleans in 1885, calls for two ounces of almonds pounded in a mortar […]
