This is the first Sunday that CJ (oldest) has had the day off since football season started (and his team, Dallas, didn’t even play). His new job has put a real cramp in my typical Football Sunday afternoons. We still play the football pool though. And I still cook stuff, but it’s usually what I plan to take to work for lunches or eat during the week for dinner. (I have a hard time cooking for just one. I only know how to feed two growing boys. . . which translates into mountains of food. Anything that can be made in large volumes.) But I miss getting together with them. This Sunday was fun!
They both came over. My mom came over. I cooked. We all watched football. And they ATE. To see my boys eat, you’d think they hadn’t eaten in a week, but I know better. They can just simply put away some good old home cooking.
Side story: CJ was making some suggestions for my website here telling me that I needed to make videos of me cooking (I don’t think anybody really wants to see me burn my arm pulling the cornbread out of the oven and the colorful slew of adjectives that followed, OR to see the MASSIVE MESS that only I can create in a kitchen). While I was hemming and hawing at this suggestion, my mom piped in and suggested that for entertainment purposes that I should videotape CJ while he was EATING. Hahahahaha! Grandma got one in on him! It really is a sight to behold. Not one that makes a mother proud, but it is AMAZING to see my boy eat.
Okay, that’s over. Now on to my boys putting some food away. Since I was going to have the whole crew over and since it’s been cold and rainy ALL WEEK long and since that makes me whine alot AND crave comfort food, I broke out a family favorite. Red beans and rice and cornbread. It’s a Southern classic and it warms my soul. It’s one of those dishes that will guarantee a visit from my boys. It’s easy! And it’s delicious! Here’s all you need:
1 bag dried red beans
2 lbs smoked sausage, sliced (I use one spicy and one regular)
1 onion, diced
Salt, to taste
Pepper, to taste
Cayenne pepper, to taste (optional)
Sift through beans to make sure there are no rocks and pour into slow cooker. Add sliced sausage, onion, salt, pepper and cayenne pepper. Fill slow cooker 3/4 full with water. Cook on high for 4 – 5 hours or on low for 8 – 9 hours.
Make rice per package directions.
Most normal families can easily get by using only one pound of sausage, but like I said. . . two grown boys that have vacuums in their bellies. That requires a lot of meat. I add the rice and the cornbread as a filler. They LOVE rice! And I LOVE my jalapeno cornbread. I’m editing my pictures of that tonight and will post my recipe for Cheesy Jalapeno Cornbread tomorrow. I can eat that all by itself.
Ya’ll have a great week!!
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackYummy. Why would there be rocks in the beans, Donna? Do beans grow in rocky places? In the ground? What’s a bean? I KNOW what a bean is! I’m just saying…..hell I don’t know what I’m saying. But I’ve never checked for rocks in my beans! How many rocks have I consumed? Oh dear God I would have just assumed I had an undercooked bean and powered on through it, breaking every tooth in my head. (Said the woman with the broken tooth and no pain pills for it….thank you little.)
Should I be the age I am now and not know that rocks come in bags of beans, Donna? Wait. I always buy them in cans. Oh I feel so much better.
I’m going to research beans on the internet and see what the hell is up with the rocks in the bags. I smell a lawsuit. I’m just sayin’…
That looks good. And ideal for the days when I have a ton of high school boys hanging out. Great suggestion!
Donna, We need to help her!!! She’s killin me! LMAO!!!!!!
As for the videos, I’m all for it!!! Here’s how it works though. Since you post rather regularly, you tell CJ that he should be at your condo at least every other afternoon with his video equipment. He can take care of the technical aspects; the lighting, the angles, the editing, the sound, and you’ll supply the food, the cooking and the colorful expletives. Then he can figure out how to get the finished product ready and on the web for your posts. That’ll shut him up on that end and you can go back to taking glorious pictures of delicious food and cursing like a sailor at your leisure. Plus you might feel the need to hide your beer or beverage during all that videography and that’d be HORRIBLE. A woman should be able to enjoy her beverages, dammit!
Try the 15 bean soup on ‘em. WE LOVE IT!!!
Get a bag of Hamm’s 15 bean soup (they make a cajun style and a regular one, we use the regular one cause Younger is ONLY almost 4). You need some mild rotel, some frozen seasoning blend (or a half a bag of frozen onions and a 1/4 bag of frozen green peppers), lemon juice, ground sausage (again, we use mild cause of the baby) and a pound of your favorite link sausage (Conecuh ROCKS). SHIT. I need Hubby’s recipe. Let me get back to you on it, but over a bed of cornbread (Momma-in-law’s Cracklin Corn Bread is REALLY phenomenal with this) it is DIVINE!! I’ll email you Hubby’s preferred method (which I’m sure you can convert to crockpot extrordinairre). All I’m saying is I’ve hurt myself on it. Delicious. Oh . . . and the ad on the page under the comment box right now is . . . MIKE ROWE being swarmed by flies. Mo would never leave the page. Yup, we gotta help the woman!!!
Loves me some Red Beans and Rice!
im going with the video thing… you know “keeping it real with the yellow jeep blonde, there’s mess, theres action and there’s great food” – see we have a tag line already, we can you tube it and see how quickly you become famous!!
Im in, will promote it and get you stinking rich so you can come visit me!! *grin* (course its all about me 
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xx
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