Am I the Only One....

[herlander_refugee]

.....who remembers the dish "Dirty Rice" as being "dirtied" not by hamburger or sausage, or beef broth, or Vegemite, or caramel coloring...but by something cheap and nutritious like chicken livers?

This is one of my favorite comfort foods. I love it for dinner. I love it more as leftovers since it is one of the few foods on the planet that I am HAPPY to eat for breakfast with an egg fried and tossed atop a steaming bowl of it.

Fast food "Cajun" Popeye's Chicken has this as a side and it is nothing like the real thing. It has rice in common and that is all.

So am I the only one that recalls chicken livers as the integral 'dirtier'?

Comments

[yarnofariadne]

Not just you! My great-aunt in New Orleans always makes it with some sort of liver.

[herlander_refugee]

That makes me smile. My Minotaurish husband was born in New Orleans and yet initially complained endlessly about the liver. He has re-established roots in his taste buds with real Louisiana cooking, lol.