A simplified version of New Orleans-style red beans and rice is a great way to get your kids involved in the kitchen (and it's delicious too).
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Sunny Anderson's Easy Red Beans and Rice | The Kitchen | Food Network
Serious Mealtimes / Gianna Ruggiero
"Daddy Daddy you'll never believe this. There. Is. A. BEAN. Growing in the mud kitchen." Alicia beamed as she dragged me over to her kidney bean plant that did indeed have a tiny green pod.
This was the next step in the journey that had begun earlier in the spring when my wife Adri showed our daughter how to select some of the dried kidney beans that we had soaked overnight for red beans and rice and place them in cups with moist cotton balls and place them on a warm windowsill until they sprouted and their little green tendrils shot up into the air. She later transplanted them herself into the corner of the wooden earthenware box I had built for her outdoor mud kitchen. She watered the plants daily for the next few weeks. When she wanted to dig out some soil to play with (usually to make mud cakes that she dried in the sun and then gave to the plants in the garden as a “treat”) she made sure not to dig any soil away from the bean plants.
