Recipe: Gladys’s Rice and Bean Stew 13 December 2007 9:07 am
Posted by Tracy in : vegan, pictures, soup, recipes, vegetarian, cooking , 5 comments“Tastes like childhood.” That’s my note next to this recipe in my handwritten spiral notebook of very favorite dishes that aren’t published in any of the cookbooks I own. A photocopy of the original recipe is held to the opposite page are a promotional Post-It note for a drug called AcipHex (rabeprazole sodium), on which my mother’s handwriting asks, “Remember Gladys’s Rice & Bean?” Of course I remember, I think to myself every time I see that note. This is the kind of comfort food I refuse to forget.
Ah, what the heck. Here’s a scan of that original recipe. I have no idea where it’s from:
If you want, you could click through to Flickr for all the information needed to make this recipe more or less exactly as I do. What follows is the Tracy version of this dish, but I’ll explain what little changes I’ve made as I go along, so look for my parenthetical comments throughout the recipe. (more…)
