Yeah my parents live in New Iberia and raise their own cattle/pigs so I typically get to cook with really fresh stuff. If not that, I typically hit up the Best Stop in Scott for some delicious boudin and other specialty meat products. I'm gonna be eatin good this weekend! Thanks a lot guys! This really is exactly what I was looking for.
Combine these two posts, and you'll have perfect red beans.:thumb: For the onions, I would use either yellow or sweet onions.
I must admit that SabanFan completely screwed with my head on the French bread with red beans thing. I NEVER eat French bread with red beans at home, since I like to crumble up corn bread into my serving, elementary school style. So thanks to SF, I bought a loaf of crappy non-Louisiana French bread for no good reason, and am now inventing ways to use it. I think the wife is going to make bread pudding out of it, but that's just a lucky circumstance. SF gets no credit for that one. :hihi: Glad your batch turned out well. Red beans are truly an underappreciated delicacy when done well.
Have always done it this way as that's the way I was taught. But I never understood the reason. Live and learn.
Don't blame me because you live in an area where good french bread is non-existent. And corn-bread in the red beans? This from a guy who went on an anti mexican rant in another thread? Horrors!!
Whoa! Everybody in north Louisiana eats corn bread with red beans. What the hell is mexican about corn bread? We make it thicker than 1/8 inch. French bread is a cajun and creole thing. Country folk make cornbread.
yeah, really, cornbread with red beans is spectacular. i even have one of those cast iron things that is shaped like little ears of corn, you cant beat that. you cajuns can take your goofy baguettes back to paris. (not really though i love french bread, but cornbread cant be argued with)
My grandma spoke better french than she did english and she ate cornbread with her red beans and rice. Anyone that thinks only north La., non cajuns eat cornbread with their redbeans is clueless.
