Red Beans & Rice With a Side of “Anarchy” at Zingerman’s Roadhouse
Zingerman’s Brings the Fun and Flavor of Camellia Beans to Ann Arbor Camellia Beans are in the house! Zingerman’s Roadhouse, that is – and this is great news for mid-western foodies and anyone else...
View ArticleRed Beans Road Show Heading to “Hotlanta”
Gather ’round! Food writer and natural-born cook Pableaux Johnson’s Red Beans Road Show is now heading to the Garden & Gun Club at The Battery Atlanta, for a one-night-only Pop-up Supper on...
View ArticleRed Bean Essentials: Hot Sauce
What would a plate of New Orleans red beans and rice be without hot sauce? That divine mixture of chili peppers, salt and liquid is a taste we just can’t live without! The pungent chili heat and tart...
View ArticleRed Bean Hall of Fame: Buster Holmes, Red Bean King
Photo courtesy of Philip M. Denman “I’m Not a Chef. I’m a Cook.” If you are a New Orleanian of a certain age, you might have heard of Buster Holmes’ restaurant and bar, which opened at its Burgundy...
View ArticleMagnalite: The Official Cookware of Cajun Country
Mosquito Supper Club Shrimp Jambalaya, courtesy of Chef Melissa Martin. Recipe can be found in her cookbook, Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes From a Disappearing Bayou. Copyright © 2020. Photograph...
View ArticleRed Bean Essentials: Andouille Sausage
Not your standard smoked sausage Andouille sausage is a classic, go-to ingredient for many red bean lovers and one they wouldn’t dream of forgoing when simmering their favorite Monday meal. Chewy and...
View ArticleRed Beans Essentials: Butter
A delicious fat for your red beans Fat is a key component in making red beans creamy and flavorful. And if you love cooking red beans, you probably have a favorite kind of fat that adds the dimension,...
View ArticleRed Bean Essentials: The Holy Trinity
At the base of many Cajun and Creole favorites is a simple foundation of gently sautéed vegetables. In fact, it’s step one in rustic, family-style recipes for gumbo, étouffée, jambalaya, and of...
View ArticleLSU Dining gets A+ in Beanology
LSU Dining Executive Chef Laurence Landon, center, leads a cooking class for students. When he’s not hilariously demonstrating clever ways for students to create quick meals in his comedic cooking...
View ArticleRed Bean Essentials: Bacon & Bacon Grease
Smoky Flavor & Richness When it comes to adding smoky flavor, richness, and delicious fat to the base of your red beans, many cooks say there’s nothing better than bacon. A popular method involves...
View ArticleRed Bean Essentials: Ham Hocks
An Old Tradition Like so many delicious Southern culinary traditions, the use of ham hocks came about as a result of hard times. While the wealthy viewed knobby, gelatinous ham hocks as undesirable,...
View ArticleRed Bean Essentials: Dehydrated Seasoning
When it comes to cooking homemade red beans a little more quickly and with less hands-on time involved, buying pre-chopped trinity is one way to go. But, if you’re looking to save time shopping and...
View ArticleRed Bean Essentials: Pickled Pork
Red Bean Essentials: Pickled Pork Southerners love the richness that seasoning meats like pickled pork add to pot of red beans. Before refrigeration, preserving foods was a challenge, and every...
View ArticleRed Bean Essentials: Green Onion Smoked Sausage
Smoked sausage is a bedrock red beans essential, and many folks wouldn’t make a pot of red beans without it. But while there’s always the popular Andouille, another local favorite is green onion...
View ArticleCountdown: Top 10 Recipes of 2020
We’ve done an awful lot of cooking this year, and these ten easy and delicious recipes are the favorites we keep coming back to — again and again. Whether you and your family love Red Beans, Large...
View ArticleHow Do You Red Bean, Artigue’s Abita Market?
Abita Springs is a quaint village deep in the piney woods of the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain, about 45 minutes from New Orleans. Once a spa town where New Orleanians came to escape the summer...
View ArticleRed Bean Essentials: French bread and Cornbread
Red bean lovers are nothing if not opinionated about the ingredients they must have on hand to make their beloved red beans. But what about the mandatory accompaniments to a bowl of red beans and rice...
View ArticleRed Bean Essentials: Fried Chicken
Another Southern Tradition When it comes enjoying a big steaming bowl of creamy red beans and rice, there are those who subscribe to the “more is more” philosophy. For example, in addition to the...
View ArticleFrady’s One Stop: A Neighborhood Gem
In the middle of the ever-changing Bywater neighborhood in New Orleans, there is an unassuming yellow store front at the corners of Dauphine and Piety streets. Take one step inside the small grocery...
View ArticleFried Chicken and Red Beans at Willie Mae’s Scotch House
As you walk up to, the aroma of fried chicken fills the air. People from all over the world line up and wait, sometimes hours, to enter Willie Mae’s Scotch House, a small two-room restaurant in the...
View ArticleThe Appalachian Bean Kitchen vs The New Orleans Bean Kitchen
Etta Sullivan, Lily Taylor, and my grandma Nellie Sullivan. Photo courtesy of R.L. Reeves, Jr. This post hails from R.L. Reeves, Jr., a Texas photographer and writer who is living and documenting life...
View ArticleMena’s Palace: The Hero of This Odyssey Stayed For the Red Beans
Forty-five years ago, Leo Christakis decided to purchase Mena’s Palace in the French Quarter as a way to move back to Greece. When he learned that the restaurant was for sale, he told his brother,...
View ArticleNapoleon House: Come for the Old World Ambiance, Stay for the Red Beans & Rice
If the walls could talk. Pimm’s Cups, intrigue, first dates, proposals of varying sorts, assignations, Creole flavors and a place to rest after a long day in the French Quarter — Napoleon House hasn’t...
View ArticleDunbar’s Creole Cuisine: Red Beans & Fried Chicken With a Side of History
Since Celestine Dunbar was a child, Camellia beans have been a part of her life in one way or another. “I can see my mother right now using one of those little packs of Camellia beans,” said Dunbar....
View ArticleAt Fiorella’s, Food is a Family Tradition
To understand how important the Fiorella family has been to the food culture of New Orleans, just ask the folks who line up early at Fiorella’s Cafe in Gentilly, waiting for the doors to open. They...
View ArticleThree Cheers for the Best Gameday Chili Recipes
Nothing beats a big pot of chili on the menu for gameday gatherings and football-watching, and these tasty recipes offer something for everyone. Hearty and delicious, chili is one of those versatile,...
View ArticleThe Legacy Lives On: Red Beans and Rice at Dooky Chase’s Restaurant
Edgar Chase IV has fond memories of red beans and rice, starting from when he was a small child. “In New Orleans, it is your Monday night meal. It’s also Carnival — going out to enjoy the parades and...
View ArticleRed Bean Essentials: Those Often-Overlooked, Smoky, Meaty Pieces & Parts
While many swear by Andouille sausage, and others opt for ham hocks or tasso, there are a slew of overlooked smoky, meaty ingredients that’ll impart wonderful flavor when cooked with red beans. From...
View ArticleRecipe Round-Up: Our Favorite New Recipes for Fall
It’s a great time to dig in to delicious new dishes that are perfect for fall. Check out these hearty, new recipes from our friends at Taste of the South, and find cozy options for easy weeknight...
View ArticleCafé 615, Home of Da Wabbit, keeps Gretna hopping
Where everyone knows your name Café 615, Home of the Da Wabbit restaurant, with its iconic, vintage Bugs Bunny themed neon sign, began as a drive-in restaurant in 1948. Today it continues to be the...
View ArticleRed Beans or White Beans? A Delicious Dilemma at Mahony’s Po-Boys
Mahony’s Po-Boys & Seafood’s Casey Levy had just received an urgent text from his staff at the French Quarter location. It wasn’t about the air-conditioning acting up or a delivery that hadn’t...
View ArticleLeni’s Cafe: An Old-School Diner With Time-Tested Red Beans
Keeping New Orleanians Well Fed Since WW II Leni’s Cafe is like going home, a place where you will find comfort food just like what your mom or grandmother — and let’s not forget dad and grandfather —...
View ArticleNice Guys Lives Up To Its Name
Opening During the Pandemic Opening a restaurant is always a risk, and Allison and Glenn Charles took on an even greater one when opening Nice Guys in June 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. But the...
View ArticleOne Pot Winners Make Football-Watching More Fun
When it’s time to watch football, you want to indulge in New Orleans and Louisiana flavors you know and love. And with our delicious dinner & seasoning mixes that feature clean, all natural...
View ArticleLi’l Dizzy’s: Home to the City’s Culinary Heart
Arkesha Baquet is a busy woman. It’s just a half-hour before opening at Li’l Dizzy’s in Tremé, and menus must be reviewed, supply deliveries confirmed, and she needs to peek in the kitchen to check on...
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View ArticleBean Stories: The search for Maw Maw’s “La La” Beans
For many natives of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region, the delicious aroma of Camellia red beans simmering on the stove brings them back to comforting memories of childhood and the mealtime...
View ArticleSaint John Honors Tradition But Puts Its Own Spin on Traditional Dishes
When You Really Love Red Beans How much does Saint John Chef Daren Porretto love red beans? He has a tattoo of one on his finger. For this New Orleans-born and-raised chef, the city and its food are...
View ArticleCamellia: The Highest Quality Beans, Peas and Lentils Available
Highest Quality, Premium Beans, Peas & Lentils In 1923, L.H. Hayward began sourcing and selling the finest red beans he could find at the old French Market in New Orleans, and his son, Gordon...
View ArticleBeans and Beer: In the Pot & at the Table
Many people find that their favorite bean dishes – from red beans & rice to Gameday chili — taste even more delicious when paired with an ice cold beer. Whether you prefer a refreshing pilsner, a...
View ArticlePickled Pig Tips, Red Beans, and RollingWithMelia
Sharing tips and tricks for her favorite New Orleans dishes from her custom pink wheelchair, Amelia Labeaud is a fun-loving New Orleans native raised in the 7th ward who has always had a passion for...
View ArticleHeard Dat Kitchen’s Red Beans and Rice Started with a Contest
When owner and chef Jeffrey Heard opened the doors to his restaurant on March 2, 2015, his wife made the red beans and rice. “She had always cooked them for me at home,” Heard says. “So I let her cook...
View ArticleChicken’s Kitchen’s Choice Morsels Keep Customers Coming Back
If variety is the spice of life, then Chicken’s Kitchen in Gretna could be considered one of its culinary epicenters. So much so that it was named to The New York Times “Restaurant List 2022: 50...
View ArticleA New Orleans Food Influencer with a Red Beans & Rice Obsession
While in college at LSU, Devin Snow’s Monday crockpot stand-by called for Camellia red beans simmered with Manda smoked sausage, a couple of onions, and a ham hock. Though he still loves red beans...
View ArticleThe Red Beans and Rice Are Smoking Good At Blue Oak BBQ
Founded in 2012 in the back of Grits bar, the BBQ dream of friends Ronnie Evans and Philip Moseley then took up residency at the Chickie Wah Wah music club. At the end of 2016, Evans and Moseley...
View ArticleNEW “Beans for 2”: Small-Batch Cooking Made Easy
Introducing Camellia Beans for 2: The Best in Small Batch Cooking Camellia Beans for 2 brings authentic Louisiana comfort food to your table with easy and delicious, perfectly-portioned, small-batch...
View ArticleRecipe Round-Up: Our Favorite Dishes of 2023
With so many options to choose from, it wasn’t easy to select the top ten bean dishes of 2023! But here they are – flavorful favorites you’ll return to again and again. From traditional Creole and...
View ArticleFrom Gentilly to Mid-City, Katie’s Red Beans and Rice Recipe Brings...
Mondays at Katie’s are pretty much like any other day of the week: the tables and bar are filled with moms, dads, uncles, aunts, maw maws and paw paws. You’ll likely find lifelong friends comparing...
View ArticleMawi Tortillas’s Gallo Pinto Becomes Part Of The New Orleans Beans and Rice...
It started with a tortilla. Then a pupusa, followed by a birria taco and ultimately a Central American restaurant with a full menu. But first, that tortilla. Mawi Tortillerias on January 8, 2024....
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