Red Beans

Our friends Steve and Jan are hosting a fish fry tomorrow. It's an annual tradition, with Steve supplying fish caught on his outings to South Padre on fishing boats. It's a tough job, but someone has to do it!

This year, the meal has a Cajun theme. Our contribution is New Orleans style red beans and rice. First you have to find dried kidney beans, ham hocks, andouille sausage, and good long grain white rice. None of these are stock items in our kitchen, so off to HEB on a shopping trip.


We walked along the levee today, our first time this season. When we first arrived, there were way too many mosquitoes swarming around the water, and later the levee was muddy from the rain. Today it was very pleasant, since we both like water, even if it's in a ditch, as Ken says.

Tonight we watched The King's Speech. We both thought it was a powerful movie, with stellar performances by Colin Firth as the king and Geoffrey Rush as his unconventional speech therapist and friend. We were disappointed to find that the film is not historically accurate, particularly as regards the question of Nazism.