Does anyone have a recommended recipe for Red beans and Rice?

11 responses total.

yes, i do!!!  i'll grab it someother time, and put it in, but if you want
to look it up, it's in the frugel gormet cook book...very good stuff!!!

Great.  If you have a chance, we'd appreciate it.  If it's not convenient,
we will get a copy and look it up.  Thanks.

well, here it is.  *HINT* do NOT use sweet or vidalia onions...turns out 
icky!  :)

1/2 lb small red beans
1/2 lb ham hocks or smoked ham
1 large yellow onion, peeled and chopped
3 stalks celery, chopped
1 tbsp parsley, chopped
1/2 green pepper, chopped  (actuall better without it i've found)
1-2 bay leaves
2 large cloves of garlic, crushed  (can be easily skipped)
1/8 lb margarine  (figure out the measurements for yourself...i have no clue)
pepper to taste
1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
tabasco to taste
salt to taste
3 cups cooked white rice

soak beans overnight.  drain them the next day, and put into heavy kettle.
add ham, onion, celery, parsley, bay leaves, and garlic, and add water to the
pot to barely cover the contents.  simmer, uncovered, for 2 hours, being
careful that the bdans don't stick or become too dry.  you may have to add
a little water.  after the first 2 hours cooking, add margarine, pepper, 
worstershire, and tabasco to pot.  continue cooking for 1 more hour, this
time with a lid on the pot, and the heat quite low.  correct the seasonings.
add salt if necessary, but don't do it before this point, because of the
amount of salt in the ham and such.  searve over white rice with a nice
green salad and a good white wine or beer.

over the years, my parents have done things to this recipe...you saw the above
notes.  we have honestly never made it with garlic (due to alergies), and
we have found that the peppers just don't belong.

i hope that this is what your looking for!  good eating!!!!  :)

Thanks a LOT!  I'll let you know how it turns out.  

 The fod, or the copyright infringement lawsuit?

you know, i hadn't thought about that last one...but oh well!  we'll survive
unless jeff smith actually decides to logon one of these days...and then
(hopefully) he might be impressed that somebody decided to post it.  :)

Since a quarter pound of margarine (or butter) is one stick
(assuming you buy it in stick form), one eighth of a pound would
be half a stick.

look at the time i wrote tht at...i wasn't awake enough to be thinking!!!

No garlic in your family?!  Poor Meg!   :(  You have my sympathies.

well, my father has massive problems, and i can't have raw garlic, although
roasted garlic doesn't cause me too many problems...

I've been enjoying some red beans and rice again [I got into it a few years
ago but then didn't for a long time]. I've never made it from scratch and the
recipe above sounds good, response 3], rather, I've tried a couple different
brands at the store where you just add water [optional butter or margerine
I do without].  There was one brand that I didn't like much [it might of been
Zanareds, maybe not] but the by Viro [sp?] that comes in a packet I really
like.  Since they were on sale this past week [around $1.19 that makes 4
servings] I brought an extra one to make for lunch at my parents place today.
They seemed to like it, too. 

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