Category: recipes

What am I freezing this week? Lots of soup and red beans and rice.

From JeffreyW’s archives

A great meal on the first cold days of fall, and perfect to use in the freezer cubes. I don’t make this recipe often, because it make enough to feed most of the neighborhood. With the freezer cubes, it makes it a nice dinner and eight additional servings for later.

Cornbread also freezes well and reheats either in a toaster oven or microwave.

This is a quick version of the all-day cooking method. For a more traditional version click here. Bonus, there is a photo of an original recipe from Louis Armstrong.

Washday Beans & Rice

• 1 cup rice
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup chicken broth
• 14oz can red kidney bean
• 4 links Italian or Andouille sausage (sweet or spicy) – slice each link into 4 pieces
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tsp to 1 tbsp Cajun Creole Seasoning (start with teaspoon and work your way up to taste)
• 4 green onions, chopped
• 2 celery stalks, chopped
• 1 large green pepper, chopped
• 1 large tomato diced (or 14 oz can)

2-quart saucepan and skillet

With tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers ready for harvest, I had to spend the weekend processing them.  Unlike other years, when there was an abundance of veggies to freeze, this year has been…sluggish.

I have been food cube curious for a while, but wasn’t sure I’d have much use for them. That was until a fitness/food vlogger talked about “meal Tetris.” This is the idea of storing just one food item in each tray and then creating meals by mixing and matching the ingredients.

I had other plans for Monday Menu, but the weekend was just miserably hot, so I refused to cook anything. Instead, let’s revisit the quick and easy potato salad. 

I added grilled onions to my most recent batch.

Previous recipe:

This is a family favorite, so time to repost.

I really like this recipe. So quick and easy.  You can use any electric pressure cooker for these results.

Someone gave me a jar of Guava Fruit Spread and I’ve been playing with ways to use it. I started with thumb print cookies. This weekend I decided to try it on grilled chicken breasts and with some experimentation, decided it paired well with citrus and chipotles in adobo sauce. I always have a jar on hand and try to find different ways to use it, too. Guava Chipotles Chicken Breast