Rice Dressing

use hot breakfast sausage as your meat

I've always heard mix with ground pork or beef. There does seem some variation on cooking the rice in the meat mixture or cooking separately then mixing.

Tried other brands but much rather Savoie's. I use it as per the directions. I like to use day old rice. IMO rice that is just cooked is too wet and doesn't a soak up the sauce as well as "dried" rice.

smother it down with some eggplant and grind meat

Savoie's is alright but I prefer Richard's. Fry off 3 pieces of bacon and remove from pan. Saute a little trinity and add ~1lb of Rouse's loose cajun sausage. Once it's brown pour your tub of dressing mix in and cook it down mixing it in well. Add your cooked rice until you have your desired ratio of rice to meat, your crumbled bacon and a handful of chopped green onoins. Turn the heat off (unless it's too wet) and serve.

I brown 2 small onions, a shallot and a bell pepper down, not to dark, just beyond clear with a little brown to them. I add 2lbs of ground meat (pork, sausage or beef) and brown that, add my Savoies mix and cook it for 20-30 minutes. In the last 5 minutes I add 1/2 bunch green onions. I mix that with 3 cups of rice that I cooked the day before.