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WWTKW Happy Easter

It’s been a long time since I’ve done much with the blog, so I thought I’d jump back in with one of my fave linkys, courtesy of Mamarazzi and Crazymama .

Crazymama is asking the questions this week and this is what she wants to know:

{1} What is your favorite Easter tradition?

We get with the extended family at MIL’s, share good food, good times and have a big egg hunt for the kiddos.

{2} Tell us about your Easter meal.

We have an easy potluck at MIL’s, our dinner here later will be ham, deviled eggs and ?

{3} Do you decorate for Easter?

Some years, this year- not so much.

{4} Your Easter basket is not complete without….

Peanut butter eggs- love to eat them frozen.

{5} Are you getting an Easter dress?

No, we’re all about casual.

Are you playing along? If so let me know and I’ll stop by and visit.

Happy St. Patrick’s day

WWTKW early holiday edition.

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Hosted by Mamarazzi and Alicia aka Queso

6 questions this week- here we go:

1. What is your favorite holiday?
2. Do you have any fun holiday traditions? What are they?
3. When do you start Christmas shopping?
4. What is your favorite holiday food?5. Share a favorite childhood holiday memory?
6. Have you ever actually tried fruitcake?

1: All of them. What can I say, I don’t play favorites. Oh wait, yes, I do.

2: Fave traditions are that Santa comes early on Christmas Eve and leaves us jammies or blankets and a game or movie and some yummies to eat. Because he likes us best and we’re cute.

3: This year I am winning Christmas, most years I start shopping right after the new year all the kick butt clearance deals.

4. Fudge. And stuffing – I can give up everything else but the stuffing. I often do so I can overeat stuffing and not be sick for days.

5. I don’t really remember much as a kid- when my dad was drunk the holidays were ruined cuz mom tried too hard to make it up to us. Fail. I have a great one from when Dawn was little though- Santa had tacked up a couple of sheets over the living room to hide her dollhouse and possibly a bike or something I don’t remember- I woke up when it was still dark and went to make coffee and saw a little butt sticking up in the air and feet sticking out from the sheet- sure enough Dawn fell fast asleep looking at the tree and the presents that were unwrapped.

6. No. And if I ever get one I WILL use it as a doorstop.

Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez – Mardi Gras, King Cake, Tradition

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While cleaning up the blog we came across this and thought it would be fun to do a repost and move the recipe for King Cake over to our food blog, Divas Cuisine. If you get a chance to make them, do so and let us know what you think- they are delicious and traditional for a reason.

This year, (2011) Mardi Gras falls on Tuesday, March 8. Mardi Gras, “Fat Tuesday”, is the last day of the carnival season as it always falls the day before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent.
Three of the four little divas were born in Louisiana, so King Cake and Mardi Gras are something we are very familiar with.

You can get a version of King Cake in the markets here but you really shouldn’t, they don’t taste anything like what you get in Louisiana.

Devon had a Mardi Gras Party with her French Club, and when she found out that no-one else was bringing one (you can order them online but they are pretty pricey) she kinda sorta told her teacher she’d see what we could do meaning she’d get Kyra to agree and I’d somehow be dragged along for the fun.

After much, much searching we found this recipe and changed it up a teeny tiny bit- they used colored icings, we NEVER got a cake with colored icing in LA, just the white icing with colored sugars so that’s what we did.

Kyra went crazy looking hither and yon for the plastic babies to tuck inside and she finally found them in a very out of the way place in Hobby Lobby (they are ugly and not quite the same and she had to take the blankets they were wrapped in off, but they will work.

These were the only beads we could find anywhere in town- they still have leftover Valentines stuff, go figure. At least we had a few to decorate the cakes with.

The recipe we used makes two smallish King Cakes so we sent them both in for the party but we did manage a wee little taste and man oh man they are good like we remember real king cakes tasting- I really LOVE the sour cream in the dough.

They are obviously homemade, but were very much enjoyed by all despite not being perfect.

The King Cake Story (The Sun Herald)
The King Cake is believed to have been brought to New Orleans, Louisiana, from France in the 1870′s. It evolved from the Twelfth Night or Epiphany pastry made by those early settlers. They added their own touches with the Spanish custom of choosing Twelfth Night royalty.
A King Cake is shaped like a crown to represent the kings.
A dried bean or pea was hidden inside the cake and whoever found it received a year of good luck and was treated as royalty for that day. Starting around the 1930s, a tiny naked baby was used instead of the bean or pea. The baby can be pink, brown, or golden. Some people believe that the baby represents the baby Jesus because Twelfth Night was when the three kings found the baby in Bethlehem.
The payback for being king or queen for the day is that person has to buy the king cake for the next day
King Cake season lasts throughout Mardi Gras from Epiphany until Mardi Gras Day. (Fat Tuesday)
The royal colors of purple, green and gold on the cake honors the three kings who visited the Christ child on Epiphany.
Purple represents Justice.Green stands for Faith.Gold signifies Power.
The three colors appeared in 1872 on a Krewe of Rex carnival flag especially designed for the visiting Grand Duke of Russia. He came to New Orleans just for the carnival, and the universal colors remain his legacy.

XOXOX The Divas

If you try out the King Cake recipe, let us know how you liked it.

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Wordless Wednesday Christmas 2010 Poor sick baby dragon w/linky

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Ian was really sick for Christmas and missed some of the fun, and we didn’t get to everything we wanted to do- he pretty much wanted to lay around for most of the week, but he still managed to storm the castle with his Toothless dragon and have a good time. Sorry the pics are so awful, we really need a) better lighting in the house and a really great camera.