Gonna be spending the weekend baking King Cakes.
Got my beads all ready (we went to 6 parades last weekend in Nawlins and brought home a ton of them!).
Gonna cook up some jambalya with andoile.
There’s a market here in Ohio that actually carries Dixie Blackened Voodoo beer, so will be making a run up there.
Anyone else ready to:
“Laissez Faire Les Bonne Temp Roulez”??? 
Missy
SHOW US YOUR [insert pertinent (or impertinent) anatomical bits here]!!!
Okay, now. Where’re my beads?
Big toe?
Baby monkeys are soooo cute. 
We have a friend in LA, as we call it. Her family runs a bakery and sends us a king cake every year. We used to live in New Iberia and go Mardi Gras in Lafayette. Not as big as New Orleans but a good party. And more survivable. Still managed to lose a camera one time. Let the good times roll, cher.
Dixie beer and crawfish…chank a chank
Um, thanks, but my tastes lie elsewhere.
No foot fetish for Nano, I guess.
I was willing to take a picture of my big toe and everything. Oh well…
Alright, alright, then…
SHOW US YOUR BIG TOE!!!
Monkeys are cute if they don’t bite.
Whew! Now I have 14 posts.
I want some king cake! Got a recipe? And where do I get that plastic baby?
Justine
Okay:
Midnight blue nail polish and all.
UPS just delivered our king cake straight from Louisiana. Half is blueberry cream cheese and half is raspberry cream cheese. It is sooo good.
Nice toe.
Oh, we get ours from New Orleans! A good friend of ours sends one to us every year. We didn’t get the fruity one this year though. And I didn’t get the baby, so no queen for the day (or principessa for that matter) for me this year
a King Cake, for those who may not know:
and here’s a brief history:
History of the Mardi Gras King Cake
All over the world, people gather for festive twelfth
night celebrations.Twelfth Night is when the coming of the wise men
bearing gifts to the Christ Child is celebrated.
This celebration is called Ephipany, Little
Christmas, or the Twelfth Night. One of the most
popular customs in this celebration of giving gifts is the
baking of a special cake in honor of the three kings -
a King’s Cake.Hidden inside the cake is either a bean or plastic baby.
The tiny plastic baby represents the Christ Child.
The person receiving it must portray one of the kings.It was originally served only on January 6th (Twelfth
Night), but is now celebrated here starting on the
twelfth night after Christmas and continues through Mardi Gras,
the day before Ash Wednesday (when the Lenten season begins)
which is throughout the entire carnival season.It is said that the lucky person who gets the baby will
have good fortune for the year. The recipient then
continues the festivities by having another party or
bringing another cake. In the U.S., cakes are brought
to offices, school, meetings and parties, and
the person finding the baby in their piece must bring a
king cake the next day.The first cakes were a simple ring of dough with little
decoration. The New Orleans-style cake is brightly
decorated with Mardi Gras colored sugars and icing and
pieces of fruit with cinnamon inside, pecans,
cream cheese, or any assortment of fruit fillings.
Thanks Beoracha, I’m rather attached to it.
In our tradition, it’s Shrove Tuesday, and we do pancakes rather than king cakes (though several people in the area do have king cakes on Epiphany).
Redwolf
Oh my. I have to fan myself…
I know how you feel, I felt the same way when I saw those shoes… it was a happy day when they came home with me.