Posted by Michael Stern
, November 19, 2008 18:19
There are few breakfast breadstuffs more delicious than hot-from-the-kettle beignets, not too heavy, but with enough avoirdupois to satisfy any appetite. They come three to an order along with lovely café au lait at the legendary Café du Monde in New Orleans' French Market; and what puts them over the top in my book is the mountain of powdered sugar that covers them. As you pick one up to eat, a lot of the powdered sugar falls into the plate, so you use the beignet as a shovel to pick up maximum amounts with every bite. Yum! Only one problem: I wore black slacks and a navy blue blazer to breakfast. Do I need to say that by the time I finished, the black and blue outfit looked like it had barely survived an explosion in a flour mill? There may be a way to neatly eat beignets without donning a hazmat suit, but I have yet to discover it.
