Not to highjack Gator's chili post - so put this here

[egghead]

Can I put beans in it and serve it over rice?

JUST KIDDING!! - Not trying to start a revolution

I don't qualify as a serious chili cook - I do qualify as a serious "chili stirrer" though

[Davidtxs]

Can I put beans in it and serve it over rice?

JUST KIDDING!! - Not trying to start a revolution

I don't qualify as a serious chili cook - I do qualify as a serious "chili stirrer" though

NO but ANY MEAT that goes in MUST BE BOILED FIRST

[Gator]

EH - you qualify!

[Boots]

Rice in is a Cajun thing....

[BluDawg]

Leave it to a Cajun to make hop & john chili

[HarvestMoon]

Rice in is a Cajun thing....

Quite common in the Golden Triangle. One ice cream scoop of rice with jalapeno slices and fresh chopped onions are OK, no beans allowed.

[egghead]

My MIL (RIP), a 100% cajun, didn't bake because she never followed a recipe but you would knock your brains out lickin your chops for anything else she cooked. She was a master at soups, stews, gumbos, dressings, beans, any kind of bird, beef, pork or game. A simple cook like red beans and rice with pickled pork or sausage was a real treat. While going to college at Nichols in Thibodaux, she would occasionally meet me in her house coat at the back door picking up my future bride for classes. She would give me a $5 bill and ask me to pick up some andoille at Bourgeois meat marker in Shriever. I would start salivating knowing we were going to have chicken, oyster, and andoille gumbo for Sunday lunch.

She made an outstanding chili that I would hurt myself every time she made it - come to think of it, I would hurt myself any time she cooked.

She also made what she called "chili beans" which was kind of like chili but very different.

Sure miss her but glad I helped her and learned a bunch from her.