As promised, picnic food (part 1)

on June 2, 2008 9:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I promised a rundown on the picnic food from yesterday's church picnic. I don't have the photos uploaded yet (tomorrow, I swear!)

But, I did want to give an update on my husband's covered dish. I was really surprised when he offered to make one, but he did - AND he stuck with the current family food challenge, which is to hold off a trip to the grocery store as long as possible by making use of items "found" in the pantry, fridge and freezer.

So what did he make?

A jazzed-up red beans and rice hot dish based on a box of Zatarain's we had in the pantry. He added to it - some sun-dried tomatoes, for example - and it made for a neat change from the parade-o-potato-salads you normally see at covered-dish picnics around here!

P.S. - Is "covered dish" a Yorkism? I know what I mean, but it doesn't occur to me whether or not other people say this.

Check back tomorrow for pictures of the hubby's dish as well as some of the other treats.

1 Comments

By Hubby on June 2, 2008 11:31 AM

The full "recipe" was: one layer of Zatarin red beans and rice; one layer of Goya black beans; and a top layer of Zatarin's dirty rice, with sun-dried tomatoes mixed in. Plus random sprinklings of various spices.

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