I need some suggestions for spicing this up. I've got chicken thighs
and andouille sausage, celery, onion, garlic, red bell pepper, chicken
broth and rice. I'm going to cut the thighs in half with the cleaver
and brown them, slice the sausage, sweat the chopped 'trinity' and bell
pepper, stir the rice in the oil, etc. Now what kind of hot peppers or
spices do I add to give it a little bite? I don't want to use cumin or
chili powder.

I've got black pepper, cayenne pepper, red chile flakes, a couple of
jalapeños, some canned chiles (probably pasillas) in adobo sauce and
some generic small dried red chiles, but I'm not averse to going out
for something different. Now that I think of it I have some fresh
roma tomatoes, too. Do people put tomatoes into this kind of dish?
-aem