Fun With Slow Cookers: Spicy Sausage and Beans It’s hard to find two things in my kitchen that I like more than my slow cookers and my rice cooker. Food preparation doesn’t come any easier when you can throw some ingredients in the slow cooker and 8 hours later have a meal ready to eat. Add on near perfect rice (and always simple cleanup) with a good rice cooker, and you can learn not to fear meal preparation, especially if you're on the hook for party or pot-luck dishes.

Last night, at about 15 till midnight, I tossed into my slow cooker the ingredients for the recipe listed below, Spicy Sausage and Beans. 8AM this morning, I put on two cups of uncooked rice in my rice cooker. I doubled up the recipe which make enough to last for maybe two weeks is we follow serving size, so that I can put some of the meal away in the freezer for last minute meals. Plus, who actually follows serving size.

Spicy Sausage and Beans

1 lb smoked sausage, sliced into 1/4-inch pieces
16 oz can red kidney beans
16 oz can crushed tomatoes
1 cup frozen chopped green pepper
1 cup frozen chopped onion
4 tbsp Cajun Seasoning
Hot Sauce to taste

Combine all ingredients in slow cooker. Cover. Cook on Low 8 hours. Serve over rice. Serves about 6.

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