sf > wrote:
>On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:15:28 -0600, Melba's Jammin'
> wrote:
>> In article >,
>> (Steve Pope) wrote:
>>
>> > Melba's Jammin' > wrote:
>> >
>> > >I'm not all that familiar with the dish‹educate me.
>> > >Is that the main course? What's a typical side?
>> > >What are the critical components?
>> >
>> > There's been some discussion here before... does google work for you?
>> >
>> > Steve
>>
>> There's been discussion of most everything here before, Steve. Sorry to
>> have bothered you.
>I'm usually the one who is posing that question. Find a bag of dry
>beans that are called "small red beans". Those are what you want to
>use, not kidney. Anyway, I finally made red beans & rice and it
>turned out to be much ado about nothing.
Well, for me, it's my favorite bean-and-rice dish. I can't quite explain
why other than that the small red beans, the holy trinity, and the
seasonings combine in a unique way. For me.
>The good news is that I now
>prefer the small red beans over kidney beans in chili (if you ever
>make your chili with beans). So the conclusion is that I will
>continue to buy small red beans, but I won't make red beans and rice
>with them.
They're very good chili beans.
Steve