Super Bowl and Mardi Gras!  This is a weekend for the ages for those in favor of revelry! Check our Instagram feed all weekend for our take on the purple, gold and green and get your RED BEANS and RICE ready with the easy recipe below.

Red Beans and Rice
Beans
1 tablespoon oil (Check out Healthy Harvest Gourmet Oil)
1 medium onion, chopped
2 ribs celery, chopped
1 green bell pepper, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced (Local garlic from Gateway Garlic)
1/2 pound Andouille sausage (use Geisert Farms Andouille, Polish or Plain Brat or try Buttonwood Farms Turkey Boudin. ) 1/4-inch slices
1 tablespoon dry rub (Try Uncle Joe’s or Wild Alaska)
1 teaspoon dried thyme (in our bulk spices)
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 12oz cans drained and rinsed red beans (or cook up dried beans ahead of time in your pressure cooker)
3 cups chicken stock (or vegetable)
2 bay leaves (in our bulk spice section)

Rice
4 cups chicken stock (or vegetable stock)
2 cups long-grain brown rice (use McKaskle Farms Braggadocio Organic Rice)
1 tablespoon oil
Pinch salt

In a large skillet heat the oil over medium-high heat. Saute the celery, green bell pepper, onion and garlic until tender. Add the sausage, dry rub, thyme, salt and pepper and sauté for another 5-7 minutes. Next, add the red beans, stock and bay leaves.  Simmer uncovered on low heat for another 75-90 minutes. Stir occasionally and add water if needed. 

Prepare the rice while beans are cooking. 

Serve beans over the rice and enjoy!

WE LOVE CHOCOLATE

From our friends at Askinosie Chocolate, check out their TANZANIA TRIO. Perfect for the Valentine with exquisite taste. 

And Ethereal Chocolates from Chicago offers unique flavor profile bars like Pistachios, Cranberries and Sea Salt with 66% Cacao.

Choc-o-hol (Get it…chocolate + alchohol=Chocohol)

Box of Chocolate (Belgian Style Quad) from Charleville Brewery (Ste. Genevieve, MO)

Chocolate Ale with Raspberry, Boulevard Brewing Company (Kansas City, MO)

Dubious Chocolate Stout, North Peak (Michigan)

Naughty but Nice chocolate wine from Westphalia (Westphalia, Missouri)

 

TEA TIME

Show your friends and teachers some love with SHOTI MAA teas.   Nothing like a little Joyful Silence with apple and lemon to add a little peace and love.  And who can resist Retrailer Tea’s Cup of Love with Rose and Tulsi. 

TEA TIME

Show your friends and teachers some love with SHOTI MAA teas.   Nothing like a little Joyful Silence with apple and lemon to add a little peace and love.  And who can resist Retrailer Tea’s Cup of Love with Rose and Tulsi.