Black beans and rice for lunch today. Not quite black-eyed peas and cornbread, but this is for lunch, not for luck. I still remember when my family visited Dad's uncles in Louisiana in 1973. Beans and rice were part of the menu. I was just a HS student, so I didn't think to get Aunt Earlene's recipe for dirty rice. She used a lot of rice-- bought it in 25 pound bags.
