I am the youngest of 10. My dad was a truck driver, and during harvest season (in CA) he would stock pile 100lbs bags of rice and beans on our enclosed back porch/laundry. We ate a lot of beans and rice with corn bread in the 50s-60s.
That actually sounds good right now, and not that sweet nasty cornbread either. I'm talking gritty corn bread that's just sweet enough from the corn meal, slathered in real butter.
Jalapeno cheese cornbread with the little corn kernels intact are my thing
Living in southeast TX now days. Red beans and rice with cornbread is one of our favorite winter meals. Add some chopped onions and cajun spice to the beans.
I usually do brown beans and ham over toasted homemade bread, been a while since I've done red beans and rice. I guess the brown beans are more of a WV thing, and that's where gramma was from.
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