Laissez les bons temps rouler (at home): How to celebrate Mardi Gras this year - The Reveille, LSU's student newspaper
As a result of the ongoing pandemic and all the restrictions that come with it, Mardi Gras parades have been indefinitely cancelled all across Louisiana. However, the holiday as a whole is not cancelled, it will just be different.
Whether you are a native Louisianian like me or just still trying to enjoy the holiday, you must be wondering how you are going to celebrate Mardi Gras this year with no planned parades or celebrations to look forward to. Thankfully, there are quite a few ways you can still safely celebrate at home just as if you were catching beads and watching the floats go by in New Orleans on Fat Tuesday.
1. Buy or bake a king cake
Seriously, where would Mardi Gras be without king cakes? These delicious circular pastry cakes are a staple of the Carnival season which can be found at a number of grocery stores and bakeries throughout Baton Rouge. By bringing one of these mighty cakes home, you can bring the feeling of the holidays to your friends and family for a delectably good time.
Best King Cakes in BR:
- Gambino’s Bakery, 5778 Essen Lane
- The Ambrosia Bakery, 8546 Siegen Lane
- Thee Heavenly Donut, 17732 Highland Road
Conversely, you can test your own culinary skills with by baking your own king cake. There are a variety of different recipes that you can find online with a multitude of flavors. So, give baking a king cake the old college try with this simple recipe.
Mardi Maigre. Tuesday, November 17, 2020. The City of New Orleans canceled all Mardi Gras parades for 2021.
2. Watch a Mardi Gras-themed movie
Granted, there is an unfortunately short supply of the holiday represented in movies and television, but there are a few cinematic gems that feature the holiday for those of you who prefer a more low-key way of celebrating. While some of these are not what one would call “good movies,” each film contains a Mardi Gras backdrop. So, if you want to celebrate without all the noise and fuss of the holiday, make sure to put on "The Princess and the Frog" and not miss a beat of it, so you don’t have to rewind to watch all of your favorite scenes.
Mardi Gras movies:
- "The Princess and the Frog (2009)"
- "Easy Rider (1969)"
- "Déjà Vu (2006)"
- "Now You See Me (2013)"
- "Thunderball (1965)"
- "Hatchet (2006)"
3. Deck the halls with boughs of Mardi Gras
One of the only ways to truly celebrate the Mardi Gras holidays is with decorations. That means it is time to pull out all of your purple, green and gold colored decorations and beads to beautify your home just in time for the Carnival season. Anything of those three aforementioned colors will work. Even pulling out your colorful Christmas lights, glittery New Year’s decorations or your LSU themed items.
4. Get jazzy with it
New Orleans is famously referred to as the “Jazz Capital of America,” so it would be sacrilegious to not play some classic jazz or zydeco music for your at-home celebrations. By putting on some Earl King, Louis Armstrong and Professor Longhair on shuffle, your household will surely sound like downtown New Orleans at the peak of Mardi Gras festivities.
Click here for an extensive Mardi Gras music playlist on Spotify. Also, check out our Media Monday Mardi Gras themed playlist.
It’s Mardi Gras break and no one does Mardi Gras like New Orleans.
2021-01-23 18:30:00Z
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