Pralines

Today we were supposed to film another batch of recipes, but we had to cancel.  :(  Arielle and I decided to get together anyway to test her praline recipes.  She had two recipes.  One is "old school" and must be constantly stirred for ~45 minutes.  It is way better than the other quicker version.  So, "old school" it is.

We've taken mental notes concerning brand loyalty.  Down here in Louisiana we have this thing called brand loyalty.  Most of our recipes call for brand name ingredients, i.e. Zatarain's this, or Karo that, or PET milk.  And we are guilty of this loyalty as well.  We say things like pass me the Season All or hand me a Coke (and all we have is Sprite).  These companies don't pay us to say these things, but we do because it's part of the culture here.  By the way, if any of these companies would like to pay us, we could step up the mentioning of your products instead of censoring ourselves as we are attempting to do now.

Tangent over; sorry.  The pralines came good.  Well the first, "old school" batch did anyway.  The 2nd batch was too runny and had a strong flavor we found less pleasant than the smooth first batch.  They are really light because we forgot to put the vanilla in...oops! Hence the misadventures part! But they taste good all the same!  I can't give you the recipe for these.  Arielle would kill me.  We will eventually produce these delectable morsels of creamy, sugary goodness for sale, but that's going to have to wait till we get the business up and running.

 stirring batch 1

 Batch 1

 Batch 2-so runny...:(

 batch 2

Batch 2

After stirring for 45mins and cooking the 2nd batch of pralines for another 30mins we were feeling hungry, yet extremely lazy.  Arielle sauteed some shrimp in her usual spices: garlic powder, season all, cayenne pepper, and a little salt.  She made some macaroni and cheese too.  We then decided to douse the shrimp in bbq sauce.  Our dinner consisted of one of life's guilty pleasures! 

Dinner!