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Tastes of home

Sun City Texas groups share their
favorite recipes

SUN CITY TEXAS CAJUN GROUP 1 teaspoon garlic onions. Let stand five minutes or so. This
serves quite a few.
Zatarain Dirty Rice or 1 tablespoon Kitchen Bouquet
Jambalaya Mix CALIFORNIA GROUP
1 cup celery
Peggy Scarborough Pozole
1/2 chopped bell pepper
Being raised around Cajun grandparents Hector Timourian
and relatives, rice was a staple with each Preparation
meal. If one were to go to a covered dish Pozole was served at every Christmas Eve
back home, 45 out of 50 cooks would Cook ground meat and pork sausage in (Noche Buena) dinner in Mexico when I
set rice dishes of some sort on the long one tablespoon of cooking oil. Add small was young. Now I cook it every year. This
cafeteria table of foods. chopped onion, garlic, bell pepper to is an adapted recipe that is easy to make.
meat and cook until brown. Add Kitchen
This recipe originated with my Cajun Bouquet and cook until done, then add Ingredients
grandmother. My 89 year old mother the broth and add the Zatarain Mix to 1½ lb. pork (boneless roast or chops)
added her touch with the Zatarain Mix. the meat and cooked rice. Return to boil,
I typed the recipe as my mother wrote it, reduce heat, stir several times, cover and 1 - 2 cans Hominy corn (rinsed and
though very seldom do we follow recipes to simmer over low heat and add the green drained)
a T - a little of that and a whole lot of this
makes for a new dish every time. When Pozole is a traditional holiday soup or stew from Mexico.
the recipe calls for the box of Zatarain
Mix, just open the box and add it. Don’t ONLINE: SCTEXAS.ORG
follow the box’s recipe. If you have any
questions while making it, I’m in the Sun
City Directory – I can talk you through
it if needed.

Ingredients

1 lb. ground meat

1/2 lb. pork sausage

1 small chopped onion

2 cans broth (chicken or beef)

1 tablespoon cooking oil

1 or 2 handfuls green onion tops

1 1/2 - 2 cups of cooked rice

1 box Zatarain Dirty Rice or Jambalaya
Mix

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