> wrote:

>I made this for dinner last night. Very yummy!
[snip]
> * 1/4 cup cooking oil, like canola (lard if you have it)
> * 1 chicken cut up or the equivalent chicken parts, skin on.
> * 1 large onion peeled and chopped
> * 2 cups of brown rice, washed in cold water and drained
> * 1/2 t Paprika

What form of paprika is best?

> * 1/2 t cayenne pepper
> * 1/2 t salt
> * 1/1 t black pepper
> * 1 Bay leaf
> * 1 1/2 cups water
>
> * 1 small green or banana pepper chopped (optional)
> * 6 peeled and seeded fresh tomatoes chopped -OR- 1 can of whole
>tomatoes, not drained but pulled
> apart

>I used 1/2 of a 14.5 oz can of diced tomatoes instead of the pepper
>and fresh tomato - it was very good, but I would have preferred to use
>stewed tomatoes.

Completely tangentially, dry-farmed early girl tomatoes are
appearing in the markets. They're probably a week or so
away from their flavor peak, and a few weeks away from their
season-low price.

We failed to use up all the ones we froze last year! Bad planning.

Steve