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jmcquown

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> 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. . . .
>> File is a thickener as well as a seasoning. . . .
>
>> Jill
>
> No gizzards or livers, try breakfast sausage, browned and drained. Or
> any sausage diced.
> And let me know how the file faired in your leftovers. It supposed to
> do bad things in reheatings.

I wound up just adding a sprinkling of file to the heated (served in a bowl)
result rather than the entire pan. I know it's best in gumbo and this
doesn't have a lot of liquid so I wasn't sure about it as an overall
seasoning, you know? Yes, of course you know! <G>

Jill