RED BEANS & RICE WITH SMOKED SAUSAGE

      Title: RED BEANS & RICE WITH SMOKED SAUSAGE
  Categories: Pork, Main dish
       Yield: 4 Servings
  
       1 lb Dried red beans
       1    Garlic clove chopped
   1 1/2 lb Smoked sausage cut
       1 ts Dried thyme
            Into chunks
       1 ts Ground pepper
       8 oz Smoked ham shanks
     1/2 ts Sage
       1    Large onion chopped
       1 pn Cayenne pepper
            Salt
            Freshly cooked rice
  
   Place beans in Dutch oven and cover generously with water. Let soak 30
   minutes. Add remaining ingredients to beans except salt and rice.
   Bring to boil over  medium  high heat.
     Reduce heat to medium low,  cover and  simmer until beans are
   tender, adding more water if necessary (about 2 1/2 hours). Add salt
   to taste.
     Discard ham  bones.   Remove  about  3 tablespoons of beans from
   mixture and mash to paste;  return to Dutch oven and stir. Simmer 15
   more minutes. Serve over hot rice.
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