re: Red Beans and Rice

I didn't watch the entire video, but I always wash and pick through dried beans. I've found rocks and dirt most every time. I guess you've been lucky, but I can't imagine not washing the beans before using them.

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Those days are gone but you can still buy the cases of frozen bags of Popeyes red beans from what used to be Dorels now Sysco in laffy.

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Sysco makes Popeye's red beans?

Thanks. I found one listed under Diversified Foods and linked it in the other thread on Popeye's, but it says it has sausage and I've never seen any sausage in Popeye's.

I prefer quartered, browned sausage for my red beans. Ham is better in white beans IMO

Ingredients:

2 lb Camellia red kidney beans
Trinity - one whole onion, two celery stalks and one green bell pepper
3 Tablespooons fat or vegetable oil
2 ham hocks or diced ham - I prefer the diced ham
1 lb of good, Smoked pork sausage (cut em in coins)
6 bay leaves
Salt, Pepper, La. Hot Sauce & Slap Ya Mama
Chopped green onions
White rice



Recipe:

Soak beans overnight.

Chop up the whole onion, two celery stalks, and one green bell pepper.

Toss veggies into a large pot with three tablespoons of bacon fat or oil and sautee them until the veggies were translucent.

Throw ham and smoked sausage into the pot along with the soaking beans and 6 bay leaves. Add more water until the beans are completely submerged with about one inch of water on top.

Bring the pot-o-beans to a boil and then lower the flame to simmer. Let them simmer for about 6 hours (can be done in 3-4 if you don't have that much time); stirring the pot every 30 minutes or so minutes to make sure the beans dont scorch on the bottom.

About three hours in, when the beans are tender, smash some of them against the side of the pot (don't over do it). This thickens the “soup” to a more creamy consistency.

Season the pot with Salt, Pepper and/or Slap Ya Mama, plus hot sauce.

Right before serving drop chopped green onions on top and serve with white rice.

Then fart...a lot...for the next 36 hours.

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Holy shite clean your house

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Paint your cabinet is different than clean your house but good try.

If you think that's bad, you check out under the toilet seat.

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I don't soak or rinse and I have never gotten sick. I guess 4 hours at a simmer kills of the bad stuff the sink water would have rinsed away.

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You aren't rinsing the beans to clean them; rather, rinse them in a colander to pick out rocks and other foreign objects. Like Gris said, I usually find a rock or some other crap that I don't want to eat.

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Bacon and rotel?


Try it

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I might try it, what the hell.

My version of IP white beans

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Here's the ingredient list for Popeye's Red Beans from a few years ago:

Water,
Pork Fat Cured With water
Salt,
[Natural Smoke Flavorings (Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil And Natural wood Smoke Flavor), Sodium Phosphate, Sugar, Brown Sugar, Sodium Nitrite],
Red Kidney Beans,
Red Bean Seasoning Mix [Salt, Spices Including Paprika And Parsley, Dried Garlic, And Monosodium Glutamate],
Dried Onions.