Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/09

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Subject: [Leica] was Another PAW now RB's &R
From: SonC at aol.com (SonC@aol.com)
Date: Tue Jan 9 09:06:59 2007

 
In a message dated 1/8/2007 9:24:57 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
abridge@gmail.com writes:


Sounds great. How do you do your red beans?
 
Red Beans and Rice.
 
Rinse one pound of dry Camellia brand red beans,  put them under water  in a 
pot and boil until all the skins start to shrivel.  Then pour out the  
water, 
(this releases some of the less happy effects of beans.)
 
Cover beans with two cups of chicken stock and six cups of water,  
 
add one medium yellow onion chopped.  
 
one  cup of chopped celery
 
half cup of fresh parsley
 
One bay leaf.  If dried, just leave it in.  If you use a fresh  leaf, take 
it 
out after about ten minutes or that's all you'll be able to  taste.
 
a couple toes of garlic.  You don't have to mince it, just peel.
 
A  small smoked ham bone, or  some smoked ham; also good would be  any good  
smoked sausage.
 
Start with a table spoon of salt.  You can add more later.   You don't need 
much because your rice should be salted.
 
I also add a half teaspoon of cloves and a big pinch of allspice.
 
Late in the cooking, add cumin.  I think you have to be the judge of  how 
much.  It is quite aromatic, so  people's tastes vary.
 
Cook until the beans are tender, and they can be smushed against the side  
of 
the pot.  
 
Smush enough to make the stock creamy.  Serve over fresh hot  rice.  
 
Don't pour the rice into the bean pot and mix them up because people might  
think you are from Texas or something.
 
Needs a little hot sauce to finish.
 
Cooking Rice.  Any amount.
 
Pour rice into pan, add salt, and pour water until it is one digit of your  
finger over the rice.  stir, and bring to a boil.   stir again,  and cover 
and 
drop temp to low. cook for about 15 minutes.  All the water  should be 
absorbed.  Check with your spoon.  If the bottom is still  watery cook 
another five 
minutes.  
DO NOT RINSE.  People might think you are from up North, like  Shreveport or 
West Monroe, or maybe even Jackson,  Mississippi.
 
Enjoy
 

 

Regards,  
Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Oldest continuous  settlement in La Louisiane
?galit?, libert?,  crawfish



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