Enough already with the beignets! Eat some calas. In bowl, combine rice, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and nutmeg and mix well. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well. Heat vegetable oil for ...

Old recipes can be like french fries and potato chips. One leads to another, then another and then another, and so on. Until you look up and find yourself in the bottom of a rabbit hole surrounded by ...

Today, many Mardi Gras tables will be filled with good food, including beignets. But there's another Creole treat that's lesser known. Chef Gisele Perez shares a recipe and history of Calas. Finally, ...

Good Food Calas for Mardi Gras Gisele Perez is a caterer ( Small Pleasures Catering ) and food blogger in LA. Her hometown is New Orleans where her grandmother made calas, like beignets, but made with ...

calas (African rice fritters) :A Baker’s Odyssey: Celebrating Time-Honored Recipes Fro America’s Rich Immigrant Heritage,” by Greg Patent; Wiley; $34.95 Kelly Gorham Makes about 36 fritters This ...