Add about 3 1/2 cups of the hot bean broth (10), season with salt and pepper (11). Once it returns to a boil, cook, stirring occasionally, according to the cooking time of the rice on the package ...

Fluff the rice with a fork, fold in the beans, and season with salt and pepper. Cover and let stand for 5 minutes. Discard the bay leaf and serve. Originally appeared: September 2014.

Rice, beans, meat, repeat. Wherever there was stew, soup, or one-pot, there was sustenance, a fact that made a cultural habit of dropping by someone’s house without notice and expecting to be ...