The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - Mardi Gras Recipes

Sometimes we can't cook for every occasion. So today, we are featuring the best Mardi Gras Recipes we found. Please visit all these sites, as they have amazing recipes and ideas all around!

The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - Mardi Gras Recipes

The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - New Collaborations: Cocina y Gastronomia, Mundo de Mamá and NaviLoop

The Foodies' Kitchen is now collaborating in articles for Future Media Tech Content Network's sites for the Spanish speaking community.

The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - New Collaborations: Cocina y Gastronomia, Mundo de Mamá and NaviLoop

The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - Roasted Eggplant Soup

I had a couple of eggplants in my refrigerator's vegetable drawer. They had been there for week already, I didn't want them to spoil, but I didn't feel like making Eggplant Parmesan with them, which was the initial purpose of buying them. I didn't want to grill them either, because that meant cutting up other vegetables and taking out my griller, which is waaaaaaay at the back of one of my cabinets. I was too lazy. I found this eggplant recipe which seemed like a tasty alternative.

The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - Roasted Eggplant Soup

The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - Luscious Chocolate Beet Cake

This Chocolate Beet Cake is a perfect way to sneak in some veggies while indulging on the chocolaty goodness of the cake!

The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - Luscious Chocolate Beet Cake

The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - Cream Puffs (Choux Pastry)

You can fill your choux pastry puffs with whipped cream, as a variation use pastry cream or ice cream. You can dust them with confectioner's sugar, drizzle with melted chocolate or... my favorite, but I was too lazy to do it, with caramel.

The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - Cream Puffs (Choux Pastry)

The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - Guest Foodie: Iveth Bodensteiner de Villanueva’s Croque Monsieur

Our friends Iveth and Mario (her husband) just moved to Colombia, so we have been keeping in touch through Facebook. While checking my newsfeed one night, I saw Iveth had posted a photo of what she had made for dinner. It was this Croque Monsieur and I had to have it. I asked her for the recipe so she could be our next Guest Foodie. We really enjoy our friends collaborating on our blog by sharing their recipes and experiences in the kitchen!

The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - Guest Foodie: Iveth Bodensteiner de Villanueva’s Croque Monsieur

The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - Chocolate Cake Balls

This is the best chocolate dessert I have tried in a while. Really. I had already tried to make brownie balls before, which are extremely delicious and chocolatey. But this... this is just too much. You sink your teeth into the hard chocolate covering to find a rich, moist and decadent chocolate cake filling. I need to make more of these, with variations like... boozing them up.

The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - Chocolate Cake Balls

The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - How I Organized My Kitchen Cabinets (Tips for your own)

It can take months, or even years for messy kitchen cabinets to form before one day, you get hit in the head by a box of chicken consomme while you’re reaching for the pasta, and you decide that you can’t take it anymore. Take it from me, I know. As someone who spends most of her time in the kitchen, you’d think my cabinets are organized. They weren’t.

The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - How I Organized My Kitchen Cabinets (Tips for your own)

The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - Valentine Cupcakes for Two

You can bake just two cupcakes, for Valentine's Day, an Anniversary, or that special occasion when you are craving a sweet but not feel like baking a cake!

The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - Valentine Cupcakes for Two

The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - Foodies Freebie: February 2012 Desktop Calendar

February is a busy month: Super Bowl and Valentines’ Day! We geared up recipes for both, including some nice surprises for Valentine’s, like this Luscious Chocolate Cake. We will post the recipe to it soon, and we know it’s going to become a favorite soon. The cake is perfect! For the Desktop Calendar, you can [...]

The Foodies' Kitchen - Recipes and Tips for Foodies like you! - Foodies Freebie: February 2012 Desktop Calendar