Estaban Vuertez wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:24:48 -0500, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Let us know next time you lift the lid. And everytime after
> that. I can't stand the suspense waiting to hear how this
> finally turns out.
>
> -sw

I only lifted the lid after 25 minutes of simmering, thank you very much. I
know how to cook rice (without a rice cooker). And I get tired, *really
tired* of killfiling you *sqwertz*, in all your various incarnations.
Haven't seen this one before, so there you go.

Jill