Well tomorrow is Monday. Which means it is Camellia red beans day, and as you can see I have just washed my Camellia red beans and I’m going to put them in the crock pot and fill it with water for tonight. Tomorrow, I dump my vegetables and meat into the crock pot, turn it on early in the morning and by 2 or 3 maybe 4 o’clock the beans will be ready and the rice will be cooking!
My fiancee brought some Camella Beans home from New Orleans ..I cooked up a bag of red beans and made rice, I was in heaven the best beans I have ever ate, I now send off and order my beans the in store beans in VA look out if Camella Beans come to our area.
I’ve made Red Beans & Rice from scratch. Bought a bag of Camellia red beans with the spice package recently. Without adding any of my own spices and two andouilles, soaking the kidney beans overnight, and adding some baking soda as the beans were first cooking with the Trinity, I’ve gotta say the Camellia spices package produced a wholly pleasantly warm delicious dish. Not overwhelmingly hot (add more heat yourself in your bowl) but just plain flavorful. I was skeptical but am really satisfied with how this potfull turned out. Five stars!
We spent the better part of two and a half years as transplants in New Orleans. Because we were seminary students, our budget was tiny, but we discovered Camellia red beans, and not only were they affordable, but they were also delicious and kept us satisfied and living well! I recently found a large bag of these beans when we were back in New Orleans, and brought them all the way back to Missouri so that we could relive those Cajun days!
Do I win. A red bean in my split peas!
Hello all I live in Michigan and I was born in Baton Rouge I come back every year or so to visit my family and a few years ago I was bringing back beans to Michigan because we don’t have Camellia beans here and I had 25 pounds of beans spread throughout my luggage and carry on I was stopped the TSA agent held up the line at Baton Rouge Airport to take each bag out individually and run them through the scanner I almost missed my plane so i could have a great pot of red beans when I got back to Michigan those lasted me about 2 years until I came back again love the beans thank you wish we had them here.
Leon Michigan.
I’ve been soaking my Camellia beans overnight then cook them in my electric pressure pot. I follow the recipe on the bag and they always come out just great!
Up until this time, I have only eaten lady peas twice in my life: once last summer, when I purchased a pound froma local produce stand; and the first time when my MIL and I shelled a “mess” of them in her front yard, under the big oak tree. Dead still air, sweat rolling off us. She seasoned them only with a little sugar and a lump of butter. Said anything else would overpower them. They’re hard to find in NW Ga. Imagine my dellight in finding you and your dried lady peas.
All I had to do was ring this doorbell on Monday nights, and when the door opened, I was sure to smell some red beans on the stove.
The first Peychaud came to New Orleans from the Caribbean around 1795, and I’m betting he had a beans & rice recipe in his travel trunk.
When I behaved well my mom would give me a bean. When I’d collected a whole jar of beans, I could trade them in for money to buy a treat. After trade-in, they might have ended up in my mom’s 3-Bean Soup.
I have raised more generations of babies than I have beans in the pot. And they all love their hot lunches. Red, black, white, doesn’t matter what color – it’s a healthy meal and the price is right.
These weren’t just steps. They were our dining room on fall evenings- Red Beans and Ham on the porch.
Always reminds me of home.
I started the Krewe of Red Beans Parade as an homage not only to the New Orleans culinary tradition of Red Beans & Rice, but to the Mardi Gras Indians and second-line parades. It’s all about co-mingling all the different influences of the city. Krewe members must create a new bean costume each year. We’re now sponsored by Camellia Brand – they supply all of our beans! We march on Lundi Gras (the Monday before Mardi Gras) every year.
See Devin’s “Feed the Krewe” Red Beans Recipe.