Happy Good Friday to you! Lent is almost over (we should all have given up pandemics…) and the resurrection is upon us, so time for a warming, homey, traditional holiday recipe. Hot cross buns are typically British. A wonderful nautical bit of lore: The Widow’s Son pub in Bromley-by-Bow had a Royal Navy sailor hang…
I alluded ever so vaguely to it two weeks ago … Caroline brushed up closer last week with making bread, because there is none to buy. But this week we have to acknowledge full-on: things are a MESS for those not already sequestered in a floating home where non-cohabitants have at least an anchor line-and-chain’s…
Or as they call it colloquially, “Gumbo Z’herbes” or just green gumbo. Sure, it’s the Friday before Superbowl Sunday and we would normally be serving up a recipe for your game day snacking: something like our bourbon shrimp pops, crab stuffed mushroom caps, jalapeno poppers or — if the Saints were playing — oysters rocketfeller…
This pirate is not much of a sports fan. I like sports … just don’t have the time or bandwidth to follow them fanatically*. But Louisiana has this fabulous tradition of cooking the opposing team’s mascot — mostly a college football thing, they roast a Cochon de Lait when they play the Razorbacks, alligator when…
Happy Dia de Los Muertos, Skallywags! We decided on a slight twist to the traditional cookie for the Mexican holiday, adding cardamom to the mix and … well … eye patches to a few of the mateys, because how can you have a bunch of skulls and not a few eye patches on Galley Pirates. …
Welcome to National Soup Month! In the annals of made-up, commercially-exploitable holidays, this one’s pretty obvious. It’s cold, you’re plum tuckered out with the challenge of packing a single buffet plate from a choice of twenty holiday dishes on offer, and maybe you’ve got a resolution to eat in a mildly more healthful manner. Something…