what is it with Beans and Rice?

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Erakad

Red beans and rice...a family favorite and staple for years!!!

Holy Crap!!! I have 2 of those bowls (had 4, only 2 left)

We bought them when my family was in Japan and I was about 8 or 9 back in 1978 or 79.

I found a place online that still sells them and want to buy 4 new ones.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Tobra

Interestingly enough, beans and rice provides you with all the essential amino acids. Essential amino acids are the ones your body can't manufacture for you. Pasta and marinara sauce does the same thing for you. Upshot of this is, you can live on it and not ever have to eat meat to get your protein.

I was going to mention that. Beans by themselves don't give you everything. Rice by itself doesn't give you everything, but together, they have everything.

I think you can get the same thing from beans and corn (beans and cornbread, anyone?)

[dafischer]

Originally Posted by Gus Berges

Costa Rican version for breakfast is called Gallo Pinto whereby the beans and rice are all mixed together (usually black beans) and it's sort of dry.

Thanks for the refresher on the name. It's been a while, and I forgot that.

[dafischer]

Originally Posted by peteremsley

And what makes it uniquely Costa Rican:

Don't like the Salsa that much, it's too mild. This is what makes it for me.

[aigel]

Fond memories of "The Silver Moon" a shack close to LSU campus in Baton Rouge, on the side of a highway. Crescent silver moon painted on the side, dirt parking lot. Two very large women inside were cooking on a couple home kitchen ranges, big steaming pots of red beans and rice. Smoked hot sausage. Cash only. Folding chair furniture. I don't think a health inspector ever saw the place. It was awesome. The beans were spicy but the sausage knocked it out of the park.

The day to eat red beans is Monday. Traditionally the washing day, so the women put an extra pot on the stove with the fire already going. Long gone are the days of doing laundry by hand but restaurants still offer red beans and rice as the special on Monday.

The Silver Moon moved to Chimes St. and got more main stream, not as tasty and now is closed. I sure wish I had asked those ladies for the recipe at the time. I can cook up some respectable red beans and rice but have since wandered off to other beans, rarely making it back to red. My favorite beans are Peruvian beans followed by blackeyed peas.

May the gas be with you!

G

[Heel n Toe]

And always remember to add...

[Instrument 41]

Aigel, Silver Moon??? I ate there many times. What great food but never understood how the health dept didn't shut her down. I made MANY deals at that place over Red Bens and Rice!!

[Alan A]

Originally Posted by Tobra

Interestingly enough, beans and rice provides you with all the essential amino acids. Essential amino acids are the ones your body can't manufacture for you. Pasta and marinara sauce does the same thing for you. Upshot of this is, you can live on it and not ever have to eat meat to get your protein.

You can also (allegedly) go through life never having sex or alcohol.

But would you want to?

[javadog]

You may not have to have meat in your beans and rice but it makes it 1000% tastier if copious quantities of pork products are added.

[Evans, Marv]

Cliff. I've had this recipe since the early 80's.

[aigel]

Originally Posted by Instrument 41

Aigel, Silver Moon??? I ate there many times. What great food but never understood how the health dept didn't shut her down. I made MANY deals at that place over Red Bens and Rice!!

Awesome!!!

I was in BTR over the holidays - has come a long way. Good and bad. A beans and rice shack like that will never come back, unfortunately.

G

[vash]

Originally Posted by Evans, Marv

Cliff. I've had this recipe since the early 80's.

dang..that is cool looking. you should get it framed, with some fancy timming and hang it in the kitchen.

my friend did that with a few of grandmas old recipies. it looked super cool in modern kitchen.

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by Alan A

You can also (allegedly) go through life never having sex or alcohol.

But would you want to?

No, but you could and it would not kill you.

My wife makes damn good pinto beans, won a few times at cook offs in Texas with them. You want a big ass ham bone in there when the are cooking.

[jcommin]

Pigeon Peas and Rice - good eats

[ckelly78z]

Originally Posted by jcommin

Pigeon Peas and Rice - good eats

Does the "pigeon" mean squab (pigeon meat) ?

[masraum]

Originally Posted by ckelly78z

Does the "pigeon" mean squab (pigeon meat) ?

Nope, it's a kind of pea/bean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_pea

[jcommin]

Originally Posted by ckelly78z

Does the "pigeon" mean squab (pigeon meat) ?

Pigeon peas are a legume similar to a black eye bean.

[GH85Carrera]

At a former job the owner and his wife were born and raised in Louisiana. The got married and liven in New Orleans until they moved to Oklahoma for a better job in the early 1960s.

The wife made some red beans and rice that to paraphrase Jerry Clower, "It was so good it made ya wanna slap yer moma fer never having made something that good"

It had lots of Andouille sausage and Cajun spices. It made everyone start talking like a Cajun. WOOOOOEEEE it was lip smacking good.

[KFC911]

^^^^ How y'all are.....Wooooeeeeee

Jerry, Justin.....yup!

[Eric at Pelican Parts]

ARGH, I shouldn't have viewed this thread when I was hungry. Now my stomach is rumbling.

I really want some red beans and rice right now, but I don't have anywhere closeby to go to. Thanks guys.. Guess I'll be making rice and beans this weekend though!

Maybe I'll try out one of your guys' recipes!