jmcquown wrote:
> Yes, tonight I'm preparing dinner from a boxed mix. Zatarain's Dirty
> Rice. Not as a side, just for dinner.
>

> At any rate, I have no chicken gizzards or livers to grind up to add
> to this so I'm just using ground beef. I'll tart up the mixture with
> chicken stock rather than water; I'll add some diced green bell
> pepper, onion and garlic and a squirt of fresh lemon juice. Alas, I
> have no celery. I'll taste it and add some hot sauce and maybe even
> ground sassafrass leaves (file powder) after the rice cooks. File is
> a thickener as well as a seasoning. This is one quick cooking boxed
> meal which I adore. And as I said, I eat this as a meal, over a
> period of a several days or I can freeze the leftovers. For those of
> you who don't know, cooked rice freezes very well.
>
> Jill

Needed more garlic. I have yet to add any of the file powder but I added
some more stock because some of the rice tender. I'll add the file when
it's done simmering another 10 minutes. All in all, not bad for a tricked
up boxed rice mix.

Jill