Colder weather, time for some beans!
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amazingflapjack
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A little Louisiana hot sauce and the tip of a tea spoon of instant coffee in the great northern's-(and others) really adds some flavor.
shouldazagged
Absent Comrade
I grew up eating pinto beans, great notherns, butter beans (dried large limas), and blackeyed peas.
The OP's recipe is much like the way I cook northerns or butter beans, and I'll be doing a pot of the latter tomorrow. Have to use jowl bacon--don't have ham hocks or bones.
I detest red kidney beans--two sweet.
I'll eat them with onion and either sriracha or a nice sauce I've found made from fresh, not dried or roasted, New Mexico Hatch red chilis. Simple, great flavor, nice heat.
I don't have any buttermilk, which is essential for making good cornbread.
If I have dried beans and long grain rice I can live forever.
It helps that I live alone.
The OP's recipe is much like the way I cook northerns or butter beans, and I'll be doing a pot of the latter tomorrow. Have to use jowl bacon--don't have ham hocks or bones.
I detest red kidney beans--two sweet.
I'll eat them with onion and either sriracha or a nice sauce I've found made from fresh, not dried or roasted, New Mexico Hatch red chilis. Simple, great flavor, nice heat.
I don't have any buttermilk, which is essential for making good cornbread.
If I have dried beans and long grain rice I can live forever.
It helps that I live alone.
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Poor Satchmo!
The original recipe sounds great. It's got me thinking about twisting it up a little and using lamb shanks, some strong fresh herbs such as rosemary and bay leaf, perhaps some carrot in the mix as well, and even a hit of wine.
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LoboGunLeather
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I like your thinking!
292
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I'd just as soon have butter beans and homemade biscuits as steak and shrimp. Black eyed peas with potato sticks on top are hard to beat also.
292
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Back in my Kosovo days, my room mate was a feller from Indiana. He had never had black eyed peas, so the next time I went home to Virginia, I brought back a couple pounds of dried black eyed peas. My DynCorps support person had found a Serbian butcher and had gotten a side of bacon. So, he gave me some a goodly chunk. I also had some Martha White self-rize cornbread mix.
I cooked them peas for about four hours and made some fried cornbread. I invited some of our German police buddies and we pigged out. Later on, my roomie's aunt did some research and found out their family had first settled in Virginia and then had moved on to Indiana. I reckon they forgot how to cook during their move.
I cooked them peas for about four hours and made some fried cornbread. I invited some of our German police buddies and we pigged out. Later on, my roomie's aunt did some research and found out their family had first settled in Virginia and then had moved on to Indiana. I reckon they forgot how to cook during their move.
Usmc5811
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I like the green the best, but that's what I was raised on.
Me too. That was another foodstuff that my Yankee roommate didn't know about. Poor feller.
Firesticks
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Can of lima beans, butter beans, kidney beans and pork n beans. Toss in some brown sugar, ketchup, BBQ sauce, a dab of liquid smoke, a pound of venison burger and half o pound of bacon ends cooked. Put it in the crock pot on low. I got a gourmet meal for 2 for a couple, three days when you add corn bread one day and my mothers recipe for fry bread on the another. Fresh baked bread warm from the oven with some good butter. OH YAH!!! Makes a heck of a meal in hunting camp when you freeze it up. Put it on the wood stove with a pot of coffee and you think you were in Shangri-la and not a hunting camp.
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Baked beans, anyone?
Baked beans, anyone?
I'll be right over!
Usmc5811
US Veteran
Me too. That was another foodstuff that my Yankee roommate didn't know about. Poor feller.
Yeah my Cajun wife of over 16 years looked at me like I was crazy when I told her cornbread and chow chow with the beans. She always did Cajun sausage and rice with her beans. I like the sausage but never warmed up to the rice. Luckily she is now a cornbread and chow chow girl!!!
These stories about baked beans bring back memories of my late mother's baked beans. I enjoyed them through childhood and after I grew up until her death in 1991. But after she died, it seemed like the recipe disappeared and wasn't part of the family cookbook she helped to get published.
But in 1998, somehow my brother found Mom's baked bean recipe and emailed it to me. After a 7 year drought, I decided it was time for me to bring back Mom's beans. We were having a family gathering at the house of my aunt and uncle (one of my dad's brothers) who lived near me and I made a pot of baked beans according to Mom's recipe. The bean pot was sitting at a staging area for all the food before bringing the food out for lunch. Pop decided to sample the baked beans I had made. So he scooped some out on a plate and after tasting the baked beans I had made declared, "These are just like Arlene's (my mother)." So it was a great day to learn that I had brought back my late mother's baked beans that had been gone for so long.
But in 1998, somehow my brother found Mom's baked bean recipe and emailed it to me. After a 7 year drought, I decided it was time for me to bring back Mom's beans. We were having a family gathering at the house of my aunt and uncle (one of my dad's brothers) who lived near me and I made a pot of baked beans according to Mom's recipe. The bean pot was sitting at a staging area for all the food before bringing the food out for lunch. Pop decided to sample the baked beans I had made. So he scooped some out on a plate and after tasting the baked beans I had made declared, "These are just like Arlene's (my mother)." So it was a great day to learn that I had brought back my late mother's baked beans that had been gone for so long.
MOONDAWG
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Baked beans, anyone?
Somebody's been peeping through Ma's kitchen window.
Bacon is our friend!
With my long gone German Grandmother it was Navy beans with Canadian bacon and apple vinegar for dinner with cottage cheese and apple butter for desert. That stuck with you for a bit. Should do that again.
bulletslap
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My grandmother called pintos cooked with Chili powder `Red Beans` and would cook them with drop corn bread dumplins.
