The Soul Food Pot provides a complete recipe for making traditional red beans and rice using an Instant Pot, with optional ...

Southern Style Red Beans and Rice is a New Orleans classic recipe. Loaded with sausage and cajun flavor, this is a family ...

Vince Hayward cooks his red kidney beans all day in a slow cooker — sometimes with smoked ham hocks, sometimes with vegan sausage, always “heavy on the bay leaf.” If they aren’t creamy enough by the ...

The first time I made red beans and rice for our then-foster son, 8 years old at the time, it was out of a sense of desperation. It was hard to get him to eat more than a few bites of anything that ...

Growing up in Los Angeles, so much of what I ate for dinner was a hodgepodge of different cultures. On Tuesday nights, gringo-styled tacos with cumin-scented ground beef and chunky stripes of sharp ...

New Orleans is known for good food, and lots of it. No trip to the Crescent City would be complete without a taste of gumbo or jambalaya, or a big bite out of a po’boy or muffuletta sandwich. Still, ...

Four cans of pinto beans, a can of crushed tomatoes, and 1 pound of ground beef or turkey make up the bulk of this satisfying ...

After a long shift of making pasta and pizzas at the University of Illinois dining hall, I was exhausted — and deserved a treat. It was the 1990s, I was an international graduate student, and as I ...

Heat a large soup pot over medium high heat and add sausage. Cook for 10 minutes until lightly browned, stirring often. Add onions, celery, peppers, syrup, sage, thyme, and creole seasoning. Cook over ...