Cabbage Fritters

So some of you are not from New Orleans.
So you may think that Mardi Gras is the only time people throw things off of parades.
You would be wrong.

On St. Patricks day it is traditional to throw all the ingredients for Irish cabbage stew off of the floats.
Both Courtney and Jessy were visiting me and we all attended the parade, me teaching them the finer points of begging for worthless throws, Courtney representing the Irish with her red hair and Jessy providing sardonic comic relief.

It is also traditional for girls to kiss the guys marching in the parade in exchange for the beads or small silk flowers they carry.....

So we came home with about a thousands cabbages, two little bags of carrots, no potatoes and plenty of beads and silk flowers.

Once we had put a whole cabbage into the soup it became clear that we needed something to do with the rest of the cabbages.So I found a recipe for cabbage veda. I fussed with it by using regular flour instead of the kind called for, adding in a whole bunch of sweet corn and a bunch of egg to make the whole thing stay together and some zatar and Tony Chacheres for taste. The end result was basically a latke with cabbage instead of potato.
It sounds horrible but it was actually really yummy especially with the sweet corn.

Crawfish pie

I made this with a lovely wholewheat crust so that Gail and I could
eat it during Tuesday club while watching dancing with the stars.
Got to love an Emeril Lagasse recipe

Honeydew lime popsicle

This is so pretty I thought it didn't need a recipe.

No chicken pot pie

Okay so this is a fancy recipe from a book but here is the scuttle butt.

Chop up some veggies (fresh)  boil them in about two cups of water with a bullion cube for like ten minutes.
Now add in the frozen veggies.
Last stir in a 1/4 cup of flour with some chicken flavoring mixed into a cup of milk.
Cook for about 5 min.

Now pour it into a dish, cover with pie crust or frozen puff pastry dough.
Bake at 400 degrees for half an hour or until the crust looks done.
Eat.
I think this might be the last pie for a bit
I do love pies but I'm trying to broaden my pallet.

YUMMY PIE!!

Don't kill Gail Quiche

So the last two weeks I have been taking my leftover pies to "Tuesday club"
The trouble is that the most faithful member and host of the club is Gail
The trouble is Gail has blood sugar issues so she can't have sugar.
thus I found a recipe for quiche which she can eat.
I bought whole wheat pastry flour too.
Jess mixed up the crust and we worked together to make the thing turn out.

It is an aussie recipe which made it a bit more complicated
Oh and we used an onion and a half since I like sweet onion
here is the link.

Chocolate silk pie

So this recipe is from chocolatepie.net
I did some weird stuff with this recipe
Jess is visiting so we went to Whole Foods to get some groceries.
The recipe calls for "chocolate wafers' but the store only sells chocolate coated vegan wafers so that is what we went with.
Then it called for Walnuts which we subbed out for crystallized ginger.


So basically we are ignoring the recipe....
It was labor day weekend so I made the crust at home, packed it and all the ingredients up and headed out
to visit the Longman clan. When I got there they were arrayed outside, the men clustered around Christopher's ailing Volkswagen beetle, the women are arrayed in chairs ... watching the men.
I stole some of the watchers to help me make pie.
It was a good time with Olivia pouring chocolate and Jess whipping cream while I chop up the pears.
The pie is/was super yummy

oops forgot the link for the recipe Here

Shoo Fly Pie

So in all my restless jetlaggednes
 I decided I should bake a pie.
I googled best pie ever and found this you tube video.
It features a woman making Quaker shoo fly pie.
So I was like what the hell?
I could not find the turkey syrup called for in the recipe. Actually at first I had no idea what it was however a quick look at yahoo answers says that it is a sugar syrup used to glaze turkeys. At any rate they don't sell it in Rouses. Thankfully the thoughtful video mentioned that you can sub in half cornsyrup and half molasses.
The recipe makes two pies and I also made a home made pie crust to put it in.
It came out great a deep brown from the molasses, crunchy on top and gooey on bottom. YUM.