No, not coconut,
Ella - you couldn't dunk the beignet if it was covered in coconut.
That's confectioner's sugar you see - it dissolves in the chicory coffee when you dunk it! The beignet is a square piece of dough, fried and covered with powdered sugar - they're served warm. Heavenly! Real diet breakers - you can't just have one! Maybe a cyber beignet has fewer calories, BUT I'm not even sure of that! t
They're served warm. Heavenly!
JoanK, you'll have to set your alarm in CA if you want to get in on these.
We went down to New Orleans two years after Katrina, stayed in Old Town right across the street from where Frances Parkinson Keyes lived and wrote her "Dinner at Antoine's" My father gave me that book many many years before and I've kept it. Of course we had dinner at the famous Antoine's - it had recently reopened, but not as many hours as before. Had a long talk with the waiter who told of moving his mother and family to Texas after the flood so he could work to support everyone. He had just returned the week before we arrived.
Frances P. Keyes home was open as a museum - this was a treasured memory - The caretaker lived in the museum - had known the author and continued to keep up her home after she left it.
Slowly things were coming back - in Old Town.
The fine homes on higher dry land all looked great - but oh, the abandonned houses es in the devastated areas needed so much work. So many of them! To me, they looked as if they ought to be razed, but the owners' whereabouts were unknown. There were markings on the homes where bodies had been found.
What gave hope was the number of volunteer crews working on the houses. So many young people... Jimmy Carter was there when we went through.
