Beans (Dried and Fresh) Month on February, 2020: Help with red beans and rice please! ?


February, 2020 is Beans (Dried and Fresh) Month 2020.

Help with red beans and rice please! ?

* 1 pound red kidney beans, dry

* 1 large onion, chopped

* 1 bell pepper, chopped

* 5 ribs celery, chopped





* 1 or 2 bay leaves


* A few dashes Worcestershire sauce

* Creole seasoning blend, to taste; OR,

o red pepper and black pepper to taste

* Salt to taste

* Fresh Creole hot sausage or chaurice, links or patties, grilled or pan-fried, one link or patty per person (optional)

* Pickled onions (optional)





Serve generous ladles-ful over hot white long-grain rice, with good French bread and good beer. I also love to serve grilled or broiled fresh Creole hot sausage or chaurice on the side. Do not serve with a canned-beet salad, like my Mom always used to do. (Sorry, Mom ... try something interesting with fresh beets and we'll talk. :^)

I like serving a few small pickled onions with my red beans -- I chop them up and mix them in with the beans. It's great! Why does it taste so good? As my sister's friend (and dyed-in-the-wool New Orleanian) Cherie Valenti would say ... "It's da vineguh!"

YIELD: 8 servings

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When are green beans ready to be picked?

When are green beans ready to be picked?

If you're eating them as "green beans" - pick them when they look about the right size to you. Slender young beans are best. If you leave them on the vine, the seeds inside develop, and they aren't quite as good as fresh beans.

If you're wanting soup beans, then leave the pods on the vines, and when they dry at the end of the season, shell them and gather all the beans (seeds) into a sack. The store for months dry.

How long will beans keep for?

How long will beans keep for?

Depending on what you mix them with, in the fridge they will last from 3 to 5 days. You can freeze beens for a month or two after they have been cooked.

In their dried state they often last for a year or more.

If your going to start using dried beans I suggest you buy a slow cooker. (crock pot) for making them in. Let them soak over night in the, unplugged pot. Toss out the soaking water and put in fresh water. plug the pot in and by the time you get home from work you have cooked beans.
