We still eat food (red beans and rice)

The original intent of sharing our food stories with all of our loyal readers was to selfishly keep a record of what we eat so that there was one canonical place to find out what it is exactly that we eat ourselves.  We have failed to keep up with this and are again in a quandary, not knowing where to find the foods that we have liked in the past.  So some more links are coming this way as we try to document foods once again.  To start, red beans and rice is an amazing food.  We use this recipe:  https://www.budgetbytes.com/2014/02/vegan-red-beans-rice/  (lots of wonderful foods there).  I think it was red beans and rice that introduced us to smoked paprika, now a staple in our house and often requested as a topping at the table by both Judah and Junia.  We omit the celery (Rebekah doesn't like it) and often garnish with thinly chopped kale (another staple in our house these days).  I can't recall now if we do a crock-pot version, but we certainly do it with the fast bean soak method.  Also, we probably double the amount of spices.  More about kale later, as we have some right now.

Edit: We're abandoning the fast bean soak method after some semi-negative consequences and some research. Overnight soaking for the win!