Name: Dixie's Red Beans and Rice
Ingredients: 2 cn Dark Red Kidney Beans; 1/2 x Onion, Chopped; Cajun, Creole seasoning; Cayenne pepper; 1/2 pk Sausage, fully cooked; 1 c Rice, long cooking white; Louisiana hot sauce; Black pepper

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables, Meats, Grains	Cajun	Main dish, Vegetables, Meats	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	cn	Dark Red Kidney Beans
1/2	x	Onion, Chopped
		Cajun, Creole seasoning
		Cayenne pepper
1/2	pk	Sausage, fully cooked
1	c	Rice, long cooking white
		Louisiana hot sauce
		Black pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

Cook rice according to package directions.  Microwave is best. Takes about
20 minutes.  Meanwhile, in saucepan, combine cans of beans, 2 cans water,
Louisiana hot sauce (Red Devil is right kind but not Texas Pete or tabasco.
Sauce is based on cayenne peppper.) Also onion, Creole and/or Cajun
seasoning, avail. in spice or Cajun section of store; but LOOK OUT FOR
THOSE THAT CONTAIN SALT if so, don't add too much and don't add extra salt.
If Cajun seasoning contains salt, you can easily get too salty! Also may
add cayenne pepper to taste; Black pepper.  Chop up sausage (any kind is OK
as long as "Fully cooked"; hot is preferable to most who prefer a hot
taste!) Taste as you go to make sure not too salty or too hot. Boil slowly
for about 20 minutes, until it begins to thicken and smells REAL good.
Serve beans in bowl OVER white rice.
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Our self-abnegation is thus not for our own sake but for the sake of others. And thus it is not to mere self-denial that Christ calls us but specifically to self-sacrifice, not to unselfing ourselves but to unselfishing ourselves. Self-denial for its own sake is in its very nature ascetic, monkish. It concentrates our whole attention on self—self-knowledge, self-control - and can therefore eventuate in nothing other than the very apotheosis of selfishness. At best it succeeds only in subjecting the outer self to the inner self or the lower self to the higher self, and only the more surely falls into the slough of self-seeking, that it partially conceals the selfishness of its goal by refining its ideal of self and excluding its grosser and more outward elements. Self-denial, then, drives to the cloister, narrows and contracts the soul, murders within us all innocent desires, dries up all the springs of sympathy, and nurses and coddles our self-importance until we grow so great in our own esteem as to be careless of the trials and sufferings, the joys and aspirations, the strivings and failures and successes of our fellow-men. Self-denial, thus understood, will make us cold, hard, unsympathetic—proud, arrogant, self-esteeming—fanatical, overbearing, cruel. It may make monks and Stoics, it cannot make Christians.

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