So this is going to be short and sweet and have no pictures. I had planned to do a post on how to make Tom's black beans and rice...come to find out he already posted it. However, I will note that I did not make with beef stock. I followed the directions on the Carolina Yellow Rice package using water and 1 tablespoon of butter. Let that boil and then put in the package of rice and black beans..simmered for about 20 mins and was ready to go!
Anyway, I would just like to talk about my meal tonight. Tonight was what I'm calling the build up meal. Why because items in the meal I needed for a future meal to make it AWESOME! I wanted to make stuffed peppers again (I told you I'm not creative :-)) which meant I needed to have black beans and rice on hand. Also I love Tom's avocado salsa to go with the peppers so I made that tonight as well. So that left me with black beans and rice and salsa with nothing else. I had packaged chicken sausages that I keep on hand to put into pastas and decided to just cook up two of them to serve with my other ingredients.
No it was not a fancy nor a picture worthy meal like Tom makes but thanks to his recipes it came out great and I can't wait to make my stuffed peppers with salsa!
Lastly, I will note that if you have not tried Dole chopped salad bags definitely consider it. I know it is more expensive then buying your own lettuce and chopping it up but sometimes it is nice to come home and know you can have a decent salad buy pulling out one bag. The chopped salads come in great flavors like chipotle cheddar and Bacon & blue cheese (bacon is bagged separately). Oh and they like to advertise they have kale in the salads since everyone LOVES kale these days.
References for prior recipes
Avocado salsa recipe
Black bean and rice recipe
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