BIRD FARM SOUTHFood For a Lucky New Year.
Hope my luck lasts all of this year. I'm not even sure where I read that red beans and rice were lucky on New Year's Day.
My sister in law and I worked at a - two heads are better than one - dinner last night. I don't think any of us were too terribly excited by red beans and rice, but oh my, was it good when we got the two together.
I knew that Cathy had a left over ham bone w/ meat; I had a ton of rice and the makings for spicy sausage. It just seemed to me that good luck was in the making. Cathy agreed to run out and find some little bitty red beans. I don't like kidney beans. The skin on 'em seem tough and icky.
Here is what I did for the Zippy Dirty Rice.
4 strips of bacon - chopped
1 lb. Spicy sausage
I used 1/2 and 1/2 pork & elk w/1 tsp. salt, 2 tsp. crazy Jane's mixed up pepper, 1/2 tsp ea. thyme and sage, 1/2 ground up bay leaf, 1 tsp. medium smoked chili powder. Get your hands in this and mix it all up together.
1/2 C butter 1 red bell pepper - chopped
1 onion - diced 2 celery ribs- chopped
2 cloves of garlic - diced 1 bunch green onion - chopped
21/2 C basmati or other long grain rice and 1 tsp. salt.
4 cups chicken or turkey stock
1 cups of water.
Brown bacon in heavy skillet. Remove from skillet and set aside. Brown sausage in the bacon grease and remove and put w/ bacon. Turn heat to med/low and put onion and the butter in the skillet. After a couple minutes add the garlic. After a couple minutes add the pepper and celery. After a couple minutes add the green onion. Now dump the meat back in the skillet and add 1 cup of stock. When it starts to bubble, turn heat to low.
Cook rice with salt using the 5 cups of stock and the 2 c. water. I put liquid and salty rice into a big pan, brought it to a boil and then slapped a lid on it and turned the heat to low for 11 minutes. I pulled it off the heat, stirred it up and slapped the lid back on for a couple or 4 or 5 minutes. You can then add the rice to the meat mix or vice versa and mix gently or fold even. Oh My God is it good. Even better w/ Cathy's Red Beans! I wanted to just stand at the stove and eat it out of the pan w/ my wooden spoon. I didn't - wouldn't be proper. But I wanted to.
DG was my test taster. He HATES rice so I figured he was the best to taste it. He said he'd had worse so I figured it was ok. I'll see if Cathy will guest post her red bean recipe for later this week.
Good Luck to Ya'll for the whole year!
My sister in law and I worked at a - two heads are better than one - dinner last night. I don't think any of us were too terribly excited by red beans and rice, but oh my, was it good when we got the two together.
I knew that Cathy had a left over ham bone w/ meat; I had a ton of rice and the makings for spicy sausage. It just seemed to me that good luck was in the making. Cathy agreed to run out and find some little bitty red beans. I don't like kidney beans. The skin on 'em seem tough and icky.
Here is what I did for the Zippy Dirty Rice.
4 strips of bacon - chopped
1 lb. Spicy sausage
I used 1/2 and 1/2 pork & elk w/1 tsp. salt, 2 tsp. crazy Jane's mixed up pepper, 1/2 tsp ea. thyme and sage, 1/2 ground up bay leaf, 1 tsp. medium smoked chili powder. Get your hands in this and mix it all up together.
1/2 C butter 1 red bell pepper - chopped
1 onion - diced 2 celery ribs- chopped
2 cloves of garlic - diced 1 bunch green onion - chopped
21/2 C basmati or other long grain rice and 1 tsp. salt.
4 cups chicken or turkey stock
1 cups of water.
Brown bacon in heavy skillet. Remove from skillet and set aside. Brown sausage in the bacon grease and remove and put w/ bacon. Turn heat to med/low and put onion and the butter in the skillet. After a couple minutes add the garlic. After a couple minutes add the pepper and celery. After a couple minutes add the green onion. Now dump the meat back in the skillet and add 1 cup of stock. When it starts to bubble, turn heat to low.
Cook rice with salt using the 5 cups of stock and the 2 c. water. I put liquid and salty rice into a big pan, brought it to a boil and then slapped a lid on it and turned the heat to low for 11 minutes. I pulled it off the heat, stirred it up and slapped the lid back on for a couple or 4 or 5 minutes. You can then add the rice to the meat mix or vice versa and mix gently or fold even. Oh My God is it good. Even better w/ Cathy's Red Beans! I wanted to just stand at the stove and eat it out of the pan w/ my wooden spoon. I didn't - wouldn't be proper. But I wanted to.
DG was my test taster. He HATES rice so I figured he was the best to taste it. He said he'd had worse so I figured it was ok. I'll see if Cathy will guest post her red bean recipe for later this week.
Good Luck to Ya'll for the whole year!
hi lisa,
thanks for stopping by and checking out my blog post on meeting pw. your story is more outrageous than mine.
the recipe looks great by the way!
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