Red Beans and Rice

Typically on laundry day (Monday) in New Orleans the ladies would take the leftover meat from Sunday dinner, toss it in a pot with red beans, celery, onion, bell pepper (the holy trinity) some good spices and let it cook all day into yummy goodness.  Today I'm doing the sheets so it smells wonderful in here!  I know, it's not Monday but any day is good for red beans and rice.

I do make them from scratch, sometimes using canned beans, but this time I soaked my red beans a few days ago.  And they are red beans not kidney beans.  I like the smaller beans for this dish.  I also make my own Cajun seasoning so I can avoid the salt.  Just do a search for a recipe and you'll find quite a few!

Let me tell you, I think this was my best pot of beans ever!  Even Jim commented on them...now if I can only remember what all I put in that pot...it's different every time I make them.

This afternoon I also made some peaches and cream scones from King Arthur Flour.  Easy to do, just add an egg, some milk and butter.

Had a 'storm' roll through this afternoon, we didn't get much rain but it sure cooled off.  The house is open because it's in the 70's outside.  I can feel the humidity creeping in so I'll close it up soon.

All is right in our world

Expensive Lesson

As some of you know our fridge died Easter weekend.  Jim ordered a cooling unit from Nucold Refrigeration Inc in Morrilton, Arkansas.  We waited and waited and waited for the shipping information and Jim called and was told it was sent etcetera etcetera etcetera.

They couldn't find it and they sent another one.   Well it arrived in a timely manner and our son in law arranged for some men to come help install it.  Muscles were required to get the fridge out of its stall.  All went well until they tried to install the cooling unit.  It didn't fit.  A call to Nucold resulted in pictures being sent and they said to just bend the part that didn't quite fit.  All the guys combined couldn't do it.

Nucold won't reply to calls and emails and we're out the money we paid.  Jim has sent letters to the Governor and Better Business Bureau.  After some more research Jim discovered others have had problems with this company.

Please avoid all contact with them!

Today we ordered another cooling unit from a different company.

Hopefully soon we'll have a working refrigerator.

We're enjoying our stay here. It's been wonderful seeing Sonsearae and Chris on a daily basis. They are a very loving, giving couple and the love they share is visible to any who spends time with them.

All is right in our world