Disney Tiana Bayou Beignet will bring the Big Easy’s favorite dessert to your mug. This medium-roasted flavored coffee will transport you to the bayou with flavor notes of honey and powdered sugar. Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company Ryan’s Thoughts: It’s classified as a medium roast, and that’s how it should be brewed. The flavors are…
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French Quarter: A Game That Brings The Spirit Of New Orleans To Life
It’s Mardi Gras season, and what better way to keep the good times rolling than with a dice game set in the heart of New Orleans? As the newest installment in the Loaded Roll & Write series from Matt Riddle, Adam Hill, and Ben Pinchback, French Quarter allows players to get the chance to explore…
The Mardi Gras King Cake: A Delicious Tradition
What is a King Cake, you ask? I can best describe it as a celebratory confection that is similar to a coffee cake-cinnamon roll hybrid covered with sanding sugar in traditional Mardi Gras colors: green, purple, and yellow. There is much debate as to what, if anything, these delicious desserts should be filled with. The…
An Encore Performance of Big Easy Busking
Disclaimer: This review is both a modified version and an expanded upon revisit to a Kickstarter preview I originally wrote for The Geek Girl Project titled “Big Easy Busking: A Nightly Battle of the Bands.” It has been edited to include new photographs of the finished product, my thoughts after owning it for several years…
Join the Celebration: Feasting on Shrimp Gumbo for Mardi Gras!
Growing up, we had this recipe a lot – usually whenever we went to visit my grandmother (a.k.a. “MorMor”) in the D.C. area – and it is one of my favorites whenever I am a little homesick or, like now, when it is Carnival season! Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is next week so I’m…