Thank you, I've been wanting to learn Red Beans and Rice, it's one if my favorite meals. Thanks again.
It's looking like I'm going to get my butt kicked (yet again) by beans.
Tip: toughest thing is finding good smoked sausage.
Heavily smoked meats also go good in red beans and rice when cooking (smoked ham hocks, bacon, etc).
If you have an HEB grocery store locally, they generally carry Savoie's andouille (pronounced: awn doo wee) sausage. Not as good as you can get at the old store in Opelousas, but close enough.
Or use any good Texas smoked sausage. Shiner Smoke House sausage is not too bad if you can't get andouille.
You can also add about 2 tsp Colgin liquid smoke to the above recipe, in addition to the smoked sausage, if it doesn't have that smoky flavor.
Go easy on that, though ... a little goes a long way, and you can ruin the whole pot with too much. Sneak up on it.