Today is Mardi Gras!!!  Hurray!  (Mardi Gras has been a part of New Orleans life since the 1730s–amazing).  I am actually on deadline (due end of week–ugh), and it’s a cold, rainy, dreary day here so I don’t have much choice to stay in and write.  But in my dreams I will be…

Eating king cake…

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A recipe for king cake

Drinking hurricanes…

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Cocktails recipes for Mardi Gras (I do love a good Sazerac!)

Wearing fab ballgowns…

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And dancing the night away…for tomorrow it’s Lent!

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A history of Mardi Gras…

Some detox smoothies for Wednesday…

What will you be doing this Mardi Gras???