Rice & Beans

Tonight I am making rice and beans for dinner. Then we are watching Smiley Face.

I use a recipe from one of my favorite cookbooks, Clueless In the Kitchen: A Cookbook for Teens by Evelyn Raab.

You cut up 6 slices of bacon and cook them in a deep cast-iron pan. Then remove the bacon, drain out all but one tablespoon of the fat, and add 1 diced onion and one clove of minced garlic and cook that for about 5 minutes, until soft. Then pour in two and a half cups of beef broth and bring it to a boil. Add the rice, the bacon, 1/2 cup diced green pepper, and a teaspoon of thyme. Cover tightly, lower the heat, and simmer for 15 minutes. Stir in two 19-oz. cans of red kidney beans, drained and rinsed, and cook for another 5 minutes.

Voila!

It's a fairly mild dish, so Guy likes to spice it up using Sam's Secret Sauce.