Everything You Need to Be Mardi Gras Ready

 

Remy dropped by one afternoon wearing Hugo Boss and gold beads. He took the

beads off, tossed them over Declan's head. "When you coming into town?"

"I thought I might join the insanity over the weekend."

"Cher, it's Mardi Gras. Every night's the weekend."

Midnight Bayou

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Anyone can join in and capture a flavor of Louisiana from wherever you are. 

So, get ready to turn up the music, shake the cocktail and stir the roux—

for however long as it takes.

 

It’s Carnival time. Laissez les bon temps rouler!

Better Homes and Gardens

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The celebrational Mardi Gras-style party to celebrate 

the journey was populated with fresh faces and familiar ones. 

The music was loud, the drinks colorful, the mood high.

Duncan 

@ MacGregor Grooms

🎭 Mardi Gras

"Cher, it's Mardi Gras. Every night's the weekend."

Midnight Bayou 

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What is it, and how do people celebrate every year

Break out your beads, Mardi Gras is upon us.

Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday," also called Shrove Tuesday. It is the day before Ash Wednesday, which marks the start of Christian Lent season leading up to Easter.

USA TODAY

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There was a madness about Mardi Gras. The music, the masks, the mayhem all crashing together into a desperate sort of celebration 
managed to create a tone that was both gleefully innocent and rawly sexual. 
He doubted the majority of the tourists who flocked here for the event understood or cared 
about the purpose of it. 
That rush to gorge on pleasures before the forty days of fasting. 

Midnight Bayou

“It’s the story that matters.”

The Real Men Who Read Romance

Dear husband isn't (fully) into Midnight Bayou... yet... he says I sent him from Laura (Templeton), whom he seems to have a crush on, to the middle of the jungle... no idea why he says this... I'll have to reread MB to learn what he's talking about.

Midnight Bayou's a book in the maybe-some-day-when-I-grow-up-shelf for years. I couldn't go beyond the first pages. Too intense for me. So I put it aside;  besides at the time I still had dozens of Nora books to go through. One day I put my grown-up-and-face-the-life's pants and in two days I read it. And Loved it. 

I was a bit afraid to give it to my husband, bearing in mind my own reaction to the first read of it. But I'm running out of Portuguese versions of Nora Novels and it was  either Midnight Bayou or Homeport. 

I'm planning to give him books on Christmas. 

I'm thinking of Key trilogy which I still don't have in Portuguese. 

Win win situation:  a Christmas Gift that he'll really like and enjoy and my collection keeps growing.

I've created a monster

Dear Husband is still reading Finding the Dream - one chapter to go - and he's already  begging for another book.

Midnight Bayou is next.

Beans & Rice

"They're wrong. You know that, Dec. You're not tossing anything aside. 
You're just picking up something different. Relax and enjoy it. 

You're in New Orleans now, or close enough. We take things easy here. 

We'll wear some of that Yankee off you soon enough. 
Have you doing the Cajun two-step and 

stirring up some red beans and rice on wash day."

Midnight Bayou

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New Orleans Red Beans And Rice

This classic New Orleans dish is easy and delicious. Sliced andouille sausage adds another dimension of flavor to the standard red beans and rice.

MY RECIPES