After eating the spectacular Southern barbecue feast as featured in this post here, I felt a hankering for more of the same (or fairly similar). One of the star dishes of Latin American or Caribbean cooking for me is rice and beans, different from the Cajun 'dirty rice' which is made traditionally with chicken livers and so would never pass my lips. If the lowering of carbohydrates is something you occasionally care about, (like me), then rice is the single most forbidden food and extremely difficult to substitute. The only viable alternative that has ever been offered is cauliflower 'rice' which is made by grating the vegetable into small pieces to be squeezed dry and fried. It's not exactly the same, but the texture and appearance is good enough to allow yourself to be slightly fooled.
