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Originally Posted by Tobra

My wife makes red beans that are as good as I ever had, gumbo, fried chicken, ribs, all that down home stuff, good enough to win at cook offs, more than once.

Red beans and rice are good, but if she can make gumbo, !!!!! For a while I worked at a company that had a lot of employees from Louisiana. Every fall we had a chili cookoff and every spring we had a gumbo cookoff. Two best days of the year.

Originally Posted by javadog

I like the meat to be in the dish, not just flavor the dish, so I have started using smoked pork neck bones.

Yes, meat in the dish, flavor and to eat. It may be amazing peasant food, but thankfully, I’m not that kind of peasant so I like meat in the dish.

The Cuban black beans and yellow rice don’t need meat, but I do prefer a good red beans and rice with some meat in it.