So, this is the intersection of health and taste and culture and the alchemy of cooking, and it’s probably less important than I’m making it out to be, but I’m gutted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first time I tried to make red beans and rice, a staple of Black American cooking, I didn’t have the right pot. Preparation requires a pot with a secure lid, insulating the beans in a cycle of steam and submerging in flavored water that soaks into the beans, crating a delicious and viscous amalgam of flavor. Add in pieces of andouille sausage or a turkey wing, and you have an additional hit of flavor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, my first attempt was…unsuccessful. I will not go into detail as to how hard the fail was in this space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, I got another pot. Tested the lid. Was ready. And since my wife doesn’t eat rice or beans, I had to adjust my recipe from a family to just me. I had it. I thought I did, anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This would be the first try in trying to incorporate beans and rice into my diet, a move that would be welcome to my blood pressure numbers and my kidney health, things I have to look out for now. A dish I have fond memories of, tasted everywhere from Southern transplants to Nor’easter pretenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The secondd try didn’t go as planned either. The pot I thought was ready for the job…was not. The results were inedible, and I had to find other evening sustenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am in the middle of my cooking era, an era I didn’t have as a kid. My mother is a master cook, but wanted me out of the kitchen and out of her way, so I didn’t learn her brand of food alchemy. As I got older and wanted to make some of these things myself, I was woefully behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There’s a couple of things I’ve figured out how to make, and with repetition I feel that I’m pretty good at. I’d like to add red beans and rice to my repertoire, but until I get the right tools, that’s not happening. The saying is that a poor workman blames his tools, but you can only hammer in nails with the butt end of a screwdriver for so long ebfore you give up and just have to get a hammer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wish me luck! I’ll get it done sooner than later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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