Mood for Fish, Bean and Rice...

It had been a while since the last time I wrote on blog. It was about the cross-stitch, but this time it is different. I am here to write about my cooking. I have cooked a lot but kept forget to take picture and share with people. So now it is time for me to take advantage of it. I cooked today and it came really good. I cooked salmon the first time in oven and it came out perfectly. It was really simple. Then I looked at the cupboard and tried to think what to cook for the side. I saw that I had can of red kidney bean. It came to my mind is that I was planning to cook bean and rice together. It must be good. The only thing, I cannot decided how to cook all together to make it much easier. I found this recipe from this Chef named Robert Irvine. His recipe is called Red Beans and Rice, here is the website of it: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/robert-irvine/red-beans-and-rice-recipe/index.html .

So in results, I decided to change it up a little bit to make it a lot easier and delicious at same time. Here is my recipe that I fix it around...

Items
1 TBS olive oil
garlic cloves or minced garlic
1 large red onion, diced
1 green bell pepper, diced
2 cans of red beans
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
1 Tbs hot sauce (any kind)
2 cup Chicken stock or Chicken broth
1 cup white rice (suggest you to use 5 minutes quick rice)
1 TBS Butter

Direction
1. Heat olive oil over medium heat in a large saucepan. Saute garlic, onion and bell pepper until tender. Stir in kidney bean, onion powder, salt, pepper, and hot sauce. Stir and add one cup of chicken stock and let it boil. Then drain but leave liquid behind a little bit. Reduce heat to low and let it simmer.
2. While it simmer, add one cup of chicken stock, and one cup of express white rice. Cook in microwave or stove. It should take 5 minutes. When it done, add it into the saucepan. Stir together gently and let it simmer little more until there is no liquid left.

Tips: I did not use butter to add rice but you can if you like to. The only difference with the recipe with website is that I did not use celery. Plus to cook rice will take 20  minutes, so I decided to use quick 5 minutes rice, if you want it quick and simple.

Enjoy!

I know it is not a lot, I just forgot to take picture so I hurried to take picture of it.