Eat Something Good

I’ve never made dirty rice before.  I had something in mind but I wasn’t sure.  I didn’t even know what it was exactly except for that it was possibly cajun.  I just looked it up on wikipedia and it is indeed a cajun dish.  That’s what I thought.  So as I’m looking over the recipe, [...]

When I was in college, I used to make a chicken and rice dish with tomatoes.  I had no memory of what it was called, but I remembered how it looked in the casserole dish and how satisfying of a meal it made.  When I looked at the New York Times Cook Book (Craig Claiborne), [...]

Lately, we’ve really been into grits.  I don’t think I’d ever had them before Steve.  He says it’s a southern thing.  His father used to make it for him when he was a kid.  He’d always put butter, s & p on it.  So I usually give Steve a large pat o’ butter and plenty [...]

I’ve been interested in polenta lately. I found out that grits were basically the same thing. Coarse corn meal. I love corn but I always associate it with central american food. So the first time I had it, I didn’t love it. I don’t remember exactly how it was served, [...]

Last night we had nothing to eat in the house and we didn’t feel like going out. It was past 10p anyway. So Steve made something. A rice dish. Vegetarian even. We cooked up some uncle bens rice, added some peas and then he seasoned it with curry powder (just [...]