re: What kind of dried beans do you use for your redbeans and rice?

I mean, they’re prepared exactly the same way as I would prepare “red” beans and rice, with sausage and ham hocks/tasso and served over rice. Exactly the response I would expect from you, though.

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Exactly the response I would expect from you, though.

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The guy: What kind of dried beans do you use for your redbeans and rice?

Me: Camellia Red Kidny


You: Great Northern


Lmao

Black eyed peas and rice is Hoppin John.

Camelia Red Kidney beans almost exclusively. I do remember a time I was up in Indiana and the people I was visiting with asked me to cook them a meal of "Original N.O. Red Beans & Rice" and I went to their local market and bought a 2 lb. bag of red kidney beans----a brand I had never heard of.

I did my normal cook time and they were still fairly hard so I had to cook them an extra 1 1/2 hours to get them to soften up enough to get creamy. I just figured the beans sat on the store shelf WAY longer up there than any similar beans would have down in N.O.

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Are all the Camellia red beans grown on the same farm or area?

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Apparently it's a pretty big "terroir"

"Camellia sources its beans from all over the U. S., and at times Canada if needed, and Vince explained that edible beans aren’t typically grown in humid areas such as Louisiana."

Bean Story link