Corn Bread and Pinto Beans

[VaTom]

Another cold but sunny day here in SW Virginia. Suppose to moderate tomorrow. Got pinto beans in the Insta Pot and ready to make some cornbread. Fire in fireplace. Just seemed to be appropriate fare for a day like today.

 

[Rudi]

Sounds great! Do you make the corn bread from scratch? I use the box kind. I should get a recipe.

 

[double-dipper]

Ham-n-beans with cornbread is only surpassed by a big o'l bowl of deer chili on a cold winter day. It's darn cold here in Kansas today too.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Once a month we do crock-pot ham&pinto beans, fried taters, skillet cornbread and raw onions.

PS: lotsa hot sauce.

 

[billwill]

And what time do we need to be there?

 

[VaTom]

Sounds great! Do you make the corn bread from scratch? I use the box kind. I should get a recipe.

My wife makes from scratch and cooks it in a black skillet in oven. Mine is from box today.

 

[Jessie]

We made some chicken& dumplings for the same reason.
Corn bread and beans next! ( with a couple of smoked hocks )

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

I like pintos, butter beans, peas, October beans, you name em. With lots of soup for cornbread, and as Rusty mentioned, fried taters. Yum, yum.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[Cardboard_killer]

Sorry, can't resist.

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[VaTom]

I like pintos, butter beans, peas, October beans, you name em. With lots of soup for cornbread, and as Rusty mentioned, fried taters. Yum, yum.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

Best thing for cooking dried beans is one of the automatic pressure cookers. No presoaking of beans needed. Pintos,black eye peas, navy, limas, etc. Done in about 40 minutes. Ours is an Insta-Pot Brand.

 

[Mack_C85]

Cowboy Kent Rollins shows how to do cornbread......

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.....and did someone say Pinto Beans....

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Kent runs a catering company out of an 1800's Studebaker Chuck Wagon, yes he feeds cowboys on the trail!!!!

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[LoboGunLeather]

Oh man! I just made a big pot of Texas-style chili with beans and peppers.

Ham and pintos next time for sure! Cold, snowy, and windy here today, perfect weather for beans.

 

[Eric300]

Y'all are making me hungry!

Time for a snack....

 

[Rustyt1953]

Y'all are making me hungry!

Time for a snack....

Haute cuisine.

I could live off that.

 

[cowboy4evr]

I don't pre soak my pinto beans . Just sort , looking for rocks and split beans , rinse and place in my bean pot with lots of water , place on top of the gas stove top and cook . I add salt , a little pepper , chili powder and toss in a jalapeno sliced for good measure .
My chili , is just meat (no beans) , about 4#'s diced , seasonings and masa . It's supposedly the recipe street vendors used in San Antonio in the 1840's . It is great when matched with a pan of corn bread (made in cast iron skillet) . On a cold day , come in after spending a cold day out riding / checking cattle and come home to a pot of chili and a pan of fresh corn bread is what a cowman longs for . Regards, Paul

 

[lkabug]

Back home in WV if pinto beans was cookin it was Wednesday!
Wednesday was wash day, and of course pinto beans meant cornbread. Thick crust black iron skillet cornbread. My job on Tuesday evening was to sort through the beans searching for little pebbles. I loved that smell of pinto beans as I coming into the house after school. It sure beat the cornmeal mush we often had.

 

[mike campbell]

SW VA might put you prit near to Welch, WV, where I'm from.

In the 50's We had cornbread with every supper (leftovers crumbled in buttermilk for breakfast) and a pot of pinto beans made the meal about once a week. My favorite was ham hocks and limas, but the old man insisted on pintos more often.

These days, the wife and kids can't understand why my cupboard is stocked with six varieties of canned beans. I learned how to make the sawmill gravy, I wish I'd had Mom teach me to make cornbread in a black iron skillet.

 

[shouldazagged]

I'm out of potatoes, and don't have buttermilk (required) for cornbread in the cast iron skillet that has been in my family for a hundred years or more, and is now used only for cornbread.

But I'm making butter bean soup--dried butter beans, ham, canned diced tomatoes and tomato sauce, diced onion, thyme, basil, oregano, chipotle powder, red pepper flakes, Worcestershire, and a little dry white wine.

I'll eat it with raw onion and some fine hot sauce made from fresh Hatch chilis.

This is one of those times--there are many--when living alone as its advantages.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I cooked some corn pone.
Had some frozen Pintos and Carne Adovada handy.
Had that with some onion.
I have most everything with onion.
Except rice cream!

 

[Rustyt1953]

This is one of those times--there are many--when living alone has its advantages.

I'd like to get Satch's opinion.