This And That and Creole Catfish...

Okay I'm back at the ready at the keyboard here on a Saturday evening with YouTube playing some of my favorites I think randomly. First up on the player is a live version of Asia's "Heat Of The Moment" from the Live in Japan DVD. This version actually has the the four original members of the band so it's pretty darn authentic. While this band was touring back in 2008, there was an offshoot band touring at the same time called Asia Featuring John Payne. LOL. John Payne joined the band after some original band members left back in the late 80s and somehow he got the rights to the name Asia and is allowed to tour with the Asia Featuring JP name. Okay my theory is that Asia is Steve Howe of Yes on electric, Geoff Downes of the Buggles on keyboards, Carl Palmer of ELP on drums and John Wetton of whatever band he was in on bass and vocals. That's the band. They're the ones that had the hits.

It kind of makes me think of the version of the Little River Band (LRB) that is doing tours now and then in this area. Recently LRB was at Harrah's Cherokee and I wanted to go up there and see them. So I googled the showtime, the location, the travel time etc. etc. only to discover that this version of the Little River Band didn't have a single original member from their heyday back in the late 70s. It would be weird paying top dollar to see a cover band playing LRB songs claiming to LRB. Sorry not biting at that lure.

LOL. I used the lure line to segue effortlessly into the success of one my recent supper dishes. A year or two ago when at J's old house her mother was in town and prepared this creole catfish dish that I found to be excellent and quite low maintenance to make.

From start to finish including prep time it took less than an hour to make and that's only because the brown rice I prefer to use takes 50 minutes to be properly prepared. It got a good review from H as I was rather liberal (imagine that me being liberal rather than conservative) with the cayenne and fresh ground black pepper.

Instead of using the native catfish found here which I found to be overpriced considering I wasn't sure if I was going to be successful with this dish I used swai which is like catfish' fraternal twin as opposed to indentical twin. Swai is cultivated in southeast Asia as a food fish and it's cost here is half of the native catfish.

Usually I mess up fish dishes either by overcooking them or making something that I really don't like eating. I didn't even know that swai was similar to catfish until I googled it when I got home after buying it. My thought process was that it's a white fish; it can't be all that bad. LOL. I know a rather scientific approach employed by me. LOL.

Anyways the end result was that it was great dish and I will add it to my cooking arsenal. I really like cooking it turns out.

Okay that's it for now. I actually started this blog a couple of weeks ago and it had been sitting in draft form and I finally said that I would finish it up before starting on some other topics or blogs.