Inspired?

I guess I don't get inspired very often to blog and I'm not sure I am now but I have either had too much coffee or too much work and I feel wound tighter than a drum. I will try to channel that energy.

As I write this entry in my on/off blog (I guess you would call it that when I go 7 months ignoring it) it is snowing beautifully outside. Let it be said that we have had an awesome winter so this snow can count as beautiful. Not an awesome winter if you sell snow mobiles or if you ice skate but if you are a mover of snow and you like to take walks in decent weather, it has been awesome. Anyway, whenever it snows and I'm home and I have a fire I get to thinking ... about lots of things but mostly about food, and coffee, and reading, and knitting, and good movies, and good friends. I need more of all 6 but I am pretty blessed over-all.

This week is my Mardis Gras week of cooking. I have made chicken gumbo, beignets, and am set up to make Louisana Red Beans and Rice this weekend. Why Mardi Gras inspired me I have no idea. I have never been to Mardi Gras but it sounds pretty fun. Anyway it just takes one little idea to launch me on some tangent and I am entertained for a whole week. Never let it me said that I am high maintenance!

The one time I was in New Orleans with a few hours to sneak out of meetings I went with acquaintenances to Cafe Du Monde and we had beignets. You cannot eat these without being covered in powdered sugar. Try it. Pictured are the ones I made this week. They are heavy on the powdered sugar. So just to be safe, I eat them with lots of coffee.