red beans and rice

[Beach Runner]

Pickle Meat from gumbopages:
[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica]"Pickled pork, or "pickle meat", as it's called in New Orleans, is what some folks consider the quintessential seasoning meat for red beans and rice, as well as other bean dishes. [/FONT]

Never had pickle meat the four years I lived in NOLA.

Thanks for the tip.

 

[CPort]

thanks for the good recipes!! Ok what are blue runner beans?

 

[30ashopper]

Is it required that you soak the beans or can you just fire them up and just cook them longer? I've always wondered why the soaking was needed. I used to work in a Cajun restaurant and they used a pressure cooker, with no presoak. Anybody know the why?