Imagine a cinnamon babka topped with sweet icing and decorated with sprinkles in classic Mardi Gras colors of green, gold and purple. It's a King Cake Babka! Are you a fan of King Cake? My daughter has a friend whose mother is from New Orleans and every February when the girls were in elementary school, this mother would bring in an ...
Chicken Gumbo for Mardi Gras
When you're Jewish, Mardi Gras isn't exactly your holiday. But I am not one to pass up a celebration with fun and good food even if I am not beginning Lent the next day. (Sorry!) So I am marking the arrival of Fat Tuesday next week with a delicious gumbo. And, as is fitting for a Jewish food blogger, this gumbo is free of both pork and shrimp -- ...