"Spanish rice" my mom's recipe.

My mom didnt cook a lot as my brother and I was growing up, but one of her go to meals when she did was a dish she called "Spanish Rice". It is a very simple, fairly cheap dish that still taste wonderful as leftovers.

This recipe is one that you can adjust for your needs, so it doesnt have a exact recipe per say. Just some guide rules, so here they go:

Per 1lb of hambuger use 1 cup of minute rice, 1 onion, 3 stalks of celery.

you will also need a can of tomato juice, salt, pepper, and your favorite type of seasoning like a season all. My personal go to seasoning comes from Save-A-lot, its called soul seasoning. you will see me refer to it a lot in my cooking. I highly recommend if you live in an area that has Save-a-Lot stores that you buy some!!

For this meal, I am using 3 lbs of lean hamburger, 3 diced onions, and 9 celery stalks all diced.

(I have a very large Pampered Chef skillet that I use for this)

while I start cooking the hamburger mixture I will start my water boiling in a seperate pan for the minute rice. follow directions on the box.

once both the hambuger and the rice is cooked, I mix the rice into the hamburger mixture. I then add the tomato juice (for this big pan I used the whole large can of tomato juice, if you make less you will not need the whole can) I also add my salt, pepper, and soul seasoning to taste.

simmer for a little bit, to heat throughly, and let the rice absorb some of the tomato juice.

Then enjoy. This is one of the dishes that bread and butter goes very well with. Since we are gluten free sometimes we will use Udi's gluten free sandwich bread with this meal.

Note: if you are not making this big of a batch and have leftover tomato juice, here is a tip to save the juice for a later date. Freeze the juice in a ice cube tray. I do this often, I will freeze the tomato juice then place the cubes into a ziplock bag. This tip works well for all kinds of sauces and juices. Just makesure to label your ziplock bags well...