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Lagniappe: Champagne wishes and black bean dreams
Published: 1/12/2012 5:40 PM
Last Modified: 1/12/2012 5:40 PM


Looking at this actually gives me a headache.

I'm not a big champagne drinker.

It's nice and all, but I still can't shake the memory of that horrendous headache I got two hours after downing two glasses at a restaurant one holiday season several years ago. Since then, it's never appealed much to me. Unless orange juice and Mexico are involved.

But, as it's a New Year's requisite and all, I sipped a glass of bubbly on New Year's Eve before going to bed 30 minutes into 2012. Oh, yeah, Lindsay Lohan has NOTHING on my hardcore partying!

Anyway, so I still have champagne in my dang fridge, and I probably need to go home and toss it this evening. On Sunday, though, I poured a couple of cups -- but not to drink.

OK, so y'all know I'm on Weight Watchers, right? One of my favorite (i.e., simplest and cheapest to make) dishes is black beans and rice. I'll make enough for six meals, one or two of which I usually end up throwing away because I'm so stinkin' tired of black beans.

But I have to admit, this last batch wasn't too bad. I did my beans the usual way, with a variety of spices and low-sodium, fat-free chicken broth, then boiled wild rice -- but not in plain ol' water. In lieu of six cups H2O, I used four cups chicken broth and two cups champagne -- and it actually tasted pretty decent. I figured that as I use left-over red wine when cooking lentils, bubbly would be dandy in rice. Ever-so-slightly sweet, perhaps, but flavorful -- and only 11 points for a serving! For those who don't speak WW, that's not bad.

What interesting things have you done with left-over champagne or other liquor? Please keep it in the kitchen and out of the gutter.

Peace, love and bubbly rice ... XOXO


Reader Comments 1 Total
tdlrenault (last year)
I'm not a big champagne drinker either (ironic since my father was French), but I'm intrigued by your red wine and lentils idea. Do you just add it to the broth in lentil soup, or what?
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While other kids were watching "The Smurfs," Scene Writer Jason Ashley Wright was tuned in to "Style with Elsa Klensch." By fourth grade, he knew he wanted to write, and spent almost three years publishing a weekly teen-oriented magazine, Teen-Zine -- circulation: 2. After earning a degree in journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi, he became the medical reporter and teen board coordinator for the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, a Gannett newspaper. Eight months later, with visions of Elsa dancing in his head, he applied for the fashion writer position at the Tulsa World, where he began working on Aug. 3, 1998. He is now a general assignment reporter for Scene.

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