Tuesday, January 18, 2011

New Orleans Red Beans and Rice


Well, tonight's dinner proves that sometimes cooking ability is important when making a recipe. While A Year in a Vegetarian Kitchen is a cookbook of "easy" recipes, I made this dish when I first got the book years ago, and it kinda sucked. But because of my blog I thought I'd give it another try, and I have to say that I found the dish to be highly flavorful. I bet Tommie will agree when he eats it later tonight.

I doubled the amount of Tabasco sauce, but other than that I stuck with the ingredients as listed, which include carrots, celery, fresh oregano, and garlic. It's a simple meal to make, but I must not have seasoned it well enough the first time. Unsure what happened there.

Once again, Dr. Sanjay Gupta would approve of the rainbow of colors. So, for taste, nutritional value, and not a whole lotta chopping to do, I give this dish 4 out of 5 stars. I think I give a lot of dishes that rating. I worry that I'm stacking the curve too much with an exorbitantly high number of 4s and 5s, but it is my favorite cookbook, so one would hope there were a lot of tasty meals in it. So there you have it. 4 stars it is. 

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