Simple recipes I use.

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4. Hi ladyVet...

I'll join in with one of our favorites. It's basically one pot and has become comfort food in our house. It can be served alone, as a side or the next morning as fried rice by adding a couple of scrambled eggs and additional diced onion.

I haven't named it really so we call it sausage and rice.

I think any meat would work but we like it with sausage...I know, I know.

1 medium/large onion diced
1 can black beans or 2 cups cooked beans
½ pkg (tube) hot ground sausage
1 ½ cup long grain rice
1 can fire roasted chopped tomato's
Enough water with juice from beans and tomato's to make 3 cups liquid.
Salt
Fresh ground pepper
Cumin/chili powder
Smoked paprika

Use a heavy bottomed pot and sauté the onion, then sausage until cooked. Add the can of tomato's with juice, the black beans with juice, spices to taste, rice and enough water to make at least 3 cups liquid.

Bring up to a boil, lower to simmer, put the pot lid on and cook for about 20 minutes or until your rice is cooked through.

For breakfast fried rice take rice cooled in fridge overnight, heat up big cast iron skillet with oil of choice, scramble 2 eggs, dice half an onion. Heat oil, sauté onion then add sausage rice, cook together stirring as it cooks, add egg and mix together with rice, add Tabasco to taste..cook until dry and put a little celery seed in at last minute, (otherwise they get bitter), salt and pepper. Enjoy.

2 of us get a couple of meals out of this and it's pretty low cost but I can't tell you how much it costs...I hope that's ok.