This is our biggest Fat Tuesday/Mardi Gras celebration yet!
Though in all fairness, the most we did to celebrate in the past was eat on Mardi Gras paper plates!
This year, aside from the decorating, and the King Cake and watching Disney’s The Princess and the Frog (set in New Orleans and gorgeous!) we also had a yummy Fat Tuesday dinner!
Peggo made AMAZING Monte Cristo sandwiches, and we all loved them!
She followed the recipe from the Blue Bayou restaurant in New Orleans Square in Disneyland (recipe below) and it was seriously dee-lish!
Though I wasn’t able to capture the entire process/recipe in pictures, I did get a few!
The Monte Cristo is basically just a turkey, ham, and swiss sandwich dipped in batter and fried. It’s served with powdered sugar and some fresh raspberry jam/preserves.
It really doesn’t sound like flavors that would go together, but somehow it really does work!
Here is one in all it’s deep fried glory, fresh out of the pan…
…before Peggo so artfully cut it on the diagonal, plated it, sprinkled it with powdered sugar and put a little raspberry jam/preserves on the side.
It looked and smelled and tasted divine!
This is all quite a departure from our usually healthy meals — not a steamed veggie to be found here!
Tomorrow we’ll have something extra healthy and nutritious for dinner balance it out…if we can resist that left-over King Cake!
Read more about our Mardi Gras decorating fun HERE!
Read more about our Mardi Gras King Cake HERE!