On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:28:12 -0500, Ema Nymton >
wrote:

>On 4/7/2013 4:02 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>
>>> We rarely ate potatoes or pasta, when I grew up, but we ate a lot of
>>> white
>>> rice. In Louisiana schools, they served white rice, almost every day, in
>>> one form or another; jambalaya, dirty rice, rice & gravy. We had white
>>> rice last week, and it was the first time we had it in about year, and I
>>> absolutely loved it. I try to stay away from flour, sugar, carbs, so
>>> white
>>> rice with butter and salt was a real treat. It was what I grew up with.
>>
>> Dirty rice! What is that?
>
>Dirty rice tastes pretty good. Not sure how the school made it, but this
>is close to my mother's recipe.
>
>http://www.gumbopages.com/food/veg/dirty-rice.html
>
>Becca
>
>
Thanks so much for the recipe. I am pleased to have a recipe that I
'know' is authentic )
Janet US