1 Tsp or so olive oil.
About 3 or 4 cups of beans. Black or red.
2c rice (uncooked, I prefer medium grain)
Sausage...pretty much anything will do, but I prefer Andouille (I'm in Georgia, so there are a few locally made ones) or Jimmy Dean's "Sage" breakfast sausage (for you yankee types, they are nothing alike, I just have odd preferences). 1/2lb to 2lb, depending on how much you want.
Large Vidalia onion, or medium-sized for astrong onion. Chopped.
1/2 small bell pepper. Chopped.
Garlic. Lots of it.
Hot sauce. Lots of it (I like Grace crushed pepper sauce).
Spices: parsely or chives, then whatever else you feel like. I like oregano, rosemary, thyme and a very small pinch of tumeric (maybe 1/8 tsp, if even that much)
Optional: a small tomato, added to the beans as they cook down.
1. Heat olive oil in a skillet, and add chopped up onion and bell pepper, oh and the sausage, sliced however you like.
2. Put the beans in a sauce pan with enough water to cover them, and turn the heat on up.
3. When this is boiling, move the onions and bell pepper to the sauce pan, and add garlic. Move the sausage to somewhere else for now.
4. This will need to sit on medium or low for around 40min to an hour. When it is a thick mush, it's ready to go.
5. Heat water for the rice. When it boils, add the rice and some of the bean mush, and maybe some worcestershire to the rice's water.
6. When the rice is done, if one of the sace pans is big enough, mix them. Otherwise find one that is big enough and mix them. Add herbs and all that, and the hot sauce. try toss without too much steam getting in your face, and then eat it.