After church on Sunday, the family and I went to Taste de la Louisiane, an annual Mardi Gras event at the Civic Center, essentially a nice reasonably-priced buffet of some of Louisiana's finest cuisine. Crawfish etoufee and rice. Dirty rice. Shrimp creole and rice. Sauce piquante and rice. Chicken and sausage gumbo. And rice. Yes, it's all about the rice down here. But it's good! Oddly, they don't make rice pudding here. Which I love.
A highlight of any Mardi Gras season is the oodles of parades, especially during the few days leading up to Fat Tuesday. A few parades had to be cancelled on Saturday due to the deluge of rain. Including one of my favorites; the Kewe of Barkus. What could be cuter than dozens of dogs dressed up in glittery gold, green, and purple costumes? I've seen a number of Mardi Gras parades over the past five years, but never the big daddy of them all, the Krewe of Krewes Parade. So I made a point this year of attending this Lake Charles tradition. We passed a good time. Laissez les bons temps rouler!
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I passed a good time with you and Jess at lunch yesterday. Wish we could have visited longer. Somewhere less busy next time, where we can linger. My dad used to farm rice, and I grew up in the middle of a rice field, and we had rice every day--dinner, supper, and sometimes breakfast!
What, no pancakes?
Thanks for the photos of the parade. It looks like a noisy good time!
Jan, I enjoyed lunch yesterday, too.
CHM, yes, it's a very noisy good time. And no, they really don't consider pancakes much on Fat Tuesday here.
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