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Recipe: Better Than Rice-a-Roni

A recipe in three parts by Rebecca Hartong

Well, really it’s just a recipe in one part but I liked the way that sounded.

Get yourself these items:
Rice-a-Roni, Spanish Rice flavor
One package Morning Star Farms Breakfast “Sausage” Patties (a vegetarian product in the frozen foods dept of most big supermarkets)
One can Ro-Tel tomatoes with chiles (the original flavor)
2 cups water
2 tablespoons butter

Do these things:
Put all 6 of the breakfast “sausage” patties on a paper plate and nuke for 3 1/2 minutes. Cool, then break into small-bite-sized pieces
Melt the butter in a big frying pan
Add the rice/pasta part of the Rice-A-Roni to the butter and let it fry over medium heat until it’s light brown
Add the breakfast patties, the powdered mix that came with the Rice-A-Roni, the Ro-Tel tomatoes, the 2 cups of water and stir the whole works up
Let it come to a boil
Put a cover on the pan, reduce the heat to low, and let it simmer for 20-25 minutes

Then do this:
Eat and enjoy! This is really good. It will feed three hungry people.
MmmmmmMMMM!