Classic Beignets | "Cookin' it! With Kix"

Classic Beignets

Here's a great recipe to treat the special mother in your life with from Cookin' It! with Kix, adult supervision definitely required!

I'd melt if I were served this on a tray with a cup of tea, a link or two of sausage and some fresh raspberries, strawberries, or peaches... hopefully a dandylion or two as well.

Ingredients:

•         Vegetable oil, for deep frying

•         2 eggs

•         1 1/2 cups purpose flour

•         3/4 cup whole milk

•         1 tablespoon sugar

•         1 teaspoon

•         1/4 teaspoon salt

•         Pinch of cinnamon or nutmeg (optional)

•         1/2 cup powdered sugar

Instructions:

1. Pour enough oil to come halfway up the sides of a large, heavy deep pot. Heat the oil over high heat for 360 degrees.

2. Whisk the eggs in a large bowl.

3. Add the flour, milk, sugar, baking powder, and salt.

4. Whisk well to make a smooth batter.

5. Fry in batches, without crowding; drop heaping tablespoons of the batter into the pot of oil. Fry, turning the beignets occasionally, until evenly browned. This could take several minutes. The best test is to take one out, cut it in half, and see if it's done in the middle. Use a slotted metal spoon to transfer the beignets to paper towels to drain.

6. Sift the powdered sugar onto the beignets, and serve immediately for breakfast or brunch.

Deliver (in bed) to the mom in your life and you probably won't have to do laundry for a month (no promises!)
 

The Shack | February Book Club

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Buy the Book * Watch the Trailer * Buy the Soundtrack

Special Preview Showing March 2nd, hosted by Delilah! Get your tickets HERE!!!

My February Book Club pick is a New York Times best selling novel many of you may be familiar with, The Shack, by William P. Young.

It’s one of my FAVORITE books and has been adapted into a major motion picture coming out on March 3rd. Sam Worthington and Octavia Spencer star in the movie, which also features my friend Tim McGraw.

Since the movie will be here soon, I decided it was a great time to pick it up and give it another read. 

It was just as thought provoking and fantastic as the first (several) times I read it! Did I mention it was one of my favorite books, ever?!

At the center of the story is Mack Phillips who has experienced a tragic loss. A deep depression ensues and he finds himself questioning the very basis of his existence, his purpose, and experiencing a profound crisis of faith.

Led to an abandoned shack enveloped within the towering coniferous forests of Oregon’s Cascade wilderness by a letter that appears 4 years after the tragedy, Mack has doubts but decides to make the journey. There, he meets a woman with the odd name of “Papa” and two more strangers that initially leave him filled with even more confusion.

Yet through the experience Mack not only rediscovers himself, but takes to heart lessons of love, loss, and forgiveness, leaving with an understanding of how to live again after the unspeakable happened; walking out of the gloom and into the light.

Tim and Faith lend their voices to the soundtrack with “Keep Your Eyes On Me” written and performed by this beautiful couple. Listen to the song and watch the movie trailer HERE.

Pick it up, give it a read, then go see the movie when it comes out March 3rd!

Special Preview Showing March 2nd, hosted by Delilah! Get your tickets HERE!!!

Buy the Book * Watch the Trailer * Buy the Soundtrack