Red…. opps I mean WHITE!!

Please excuse me today…. I have a NyQuil hangover. {Day 6 of a nasty cold}

So I challenged the hubby and myself to cook down the pantry.

My pantry is kindly called the PANTRY OF HELL!

It is a total mess!! I felt it would be best to try and use up as much as we could on our shelves so I would have more room to redo the room. My winter project. {weee hands in the air with utter excitement. HA}

So anyways.

List of what I had on hand:

Can of Rotel Tomatoes

Can of navy beans – rinse

Turkey kielbasa – chopped

brown rice

taco sauce

Velveeta Queso cheese

Red Pepper – diced

1/2 large onion – diced

olive oil

franks hot sauce, salt and pepper to taste

I also added oregano. But I am an oregano kind of gal. Not everyone is. This dish would be just as wonderful without it!

So I took a good bit of olive oil and a chopped garlic clove and sauteed the onion and red pepper. I used a very large pan. Here is the pan I use

And let me tell you this thing is AWESOME!! I hardly use my other pans. This is my go to for big dinners. I highly recommend Rachel Ray’s cookware. I love it!

So once the onions and pepper are ready I added the kielbasa. Got it good and warm and then added the rinsed beans and tomatoes. I added 2 tbls of taco sauce. We like things a little spicy so I used a medium sauce. I also added a dash of franks hot sauce. Once it was good and warm I threw in 3 slices of the velveeta queso cheese and got it all melty. I cooked it on low while I made the rice according to the package in the microwave. Once it was done I poured into the pan and mixed it all up.

Then I called out….

Dinner time!!!!

What’s for dinner at your house tonight?