Fall is here, time for some beans!

[DWalt]

For a long time, my wife has made a chili casserole. Chili, thick and heavy on meat, with beans, and a cornbread crust on top. The best way to fix chili. Make the chili however you want, put it in a casserole dish, pour cornbread batter on top. Then bake.

 

[djohns6]

If you're going to cook beans , you have to make a pot of rice ..

 

[Rustyt1953]

How the boys roll.

 

[DWalt]

Back in my oilfield days, Frito Chili pie was a staple menu item in most restaurants in West Texas small towns. I haven’t seen it much recently. Wolf brand canned chili poured over Fritos with melted cheddar cheese on top. Sliced jalapeños optional.

 

[ralph7]

Uh....hate to break this to ya but "Texas style" chili doesn't come with beans.
notwithstanding...Beans is good and good for ya!

To heck with Texas style.
Chili is better with beans!

 

[Rustyt1953]

How I roll.

 

[walkin jack]

As far back as I have been been cooking pinto beans I have experimented with different meats, seasonings, spices, and veggies. Every version I ever came up with was good. But if we're talking about DRIED pinto beans there was always, ALWAYS, one constant...you must soak them in water overnight or they will never tender up. the two times I didn't bother to do that I reminded myself why.

This was one of my mother's quotes: "You can cook a pinto bean till the cows come but if you don't soak it first it will never get tender.

BUT...

You can file this under the heading of live and learn. My BIL and SIL returned from a trip to Colorado and brought me a 5 lb bag of dried pinto beans from a company called:

HEIL BEAN, INC.
110 North Main
Rocky Ford, CO
81067

I was reluctant to believe it but they told me that THESE BEANS NEED NO SOAKING. But they spoke the truth. I didn't time it but it was about an hour and half or so and they were perfect...No soaking, no fooling.
If it's possible they are even better tasting.

 

[Chubbo]

Beans

Beans are a favored vegetable, of mine. They were an absolutely necessary staple of our pioneers. Beans are on my mind in every season, especially in the fall.

Hezzy, and I were members of a couple of camping / RV clubs, and one owned a 15gal., cast iron butchering kettle. We had corn bread, and bean soup, fixed over a camp fire, Several times a year, and always on New Year.

My favorite beans for bean soup are dried baby Lima beans, with a ham-hock. And a few seasonings from my own recipe.

We also made baked beans with bacon, frankfurters, wieners, or sausage, and sometimes it contained all of ’em.

At 91yrs I’m no longer able to get out to the woods to fix corn bread & bean soup, or baked beans, but I wish I could.

The gas generated by beans is merely a bonus.

It makes my mouth water just writing about ‘em.

I’d like to pass on one of mom’s sayings;
Beans, beans, the musical fruit.
The more you eat, the more you toot.
The more you toot, the better you feel.
Then you’re ready for another meal.

Chubbo

 

[Golddollar]

The gas generated by beans is merely a bonus.

It makes my mouth water just writing about ‘em.

Chubbo

I just about busted a gut laughing when I read this. I never heard it put quite like that before.

My mother was famous for her baked beans. When she died back in 1991, her recipe couldn't be found for awhile. But finally, my brother found Mom's recipe and sent it to me.

When I was living in Maryland, my aunt and uncle who lived in the same county decided to have a family get-together, and my dad was going to be there. So I decided I would try my first attempt at making Mom's baked beans. I brought my pot of beans from home, and when we were setting out the food Pop decided to try a sample of the beans I brought. It was with great joy I heard Pop pronounce "These are just like [my mother]'s."

 

[Golddollar]

The wife has been asking for Senate Bean Soup (Navy beans thickened with left over mashed potatoes).

I wondered where they got the gas for filibustering.

 

[DWalt]

Back in my childhood, my mother made Senate Bean Soup. But I don’t remember it containing mashed potatoes. Maybe there are different recipes depending on which party is in charge. I would always add ketchup and crumbled saltine crackers to it. And lots of black pepper. I love black pepper on anything.

 

[zeke]

But if we're talking about DRIED pinto beans there was always, ALWAYS, one constant...you must soak them in water overnight or they will never tender up. the two times I didn't bother to do that I reminded myself why.

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Instant pot will soften up any bean in minutes, after it heats up.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Instant pot will soften up any bean in minutes, after it heats up.

Link please? ✌

 

[TeamPB]

I think I am starting to fall in love with all of you!

 

[coltle6920]

The wife has been asking for Senate Bean Soup (Navy beans thickened with left over mashed potatoes).

I keep forgetting to soak them (I only use dried). She won't eat quick soaked beans. Insists they make her too gassy.

In the fall I also do red beans and rice. I do pintos for my self, but I am the only one in the house that eats them.

I was taught you could soak beans overnight or boil them on the stove for 1 1/2-2 hrs. I prefer the stove method because while you're getting everything else ready the beans will be almost done making the overall cooking time less.

 

[coltle6920]

To heck with Texas style.
Chili is better with beans!

Especially with the price of beef nowadays.

 

[SMSgt]

No gas shortage on this forum.

 

[Chubbs103]

I was taught you could soak beans overnight or boil them on the stove for 1 1/2-2 hrs. I prefer the stove method because while you're getting everything else ready the beans will be almost done making the overall cooking time less.

That's what I was referring to as the quick soak.

Real or perceived, my wife won't eat them unless they have been soaked overnight.

 

[Narragansett]

I just about busted a gut laughing when I read this. I never heard it put quite like that before.

My mother was famous for her baked beans. When she died back in 1991, her recipe couldn't be found for awhile. But finally, my brother found Mom's recipe and sent it to me.

When I was living in Maryland, my aunt and uncle who lived in the same county decided to have a family get-together, and my dad was going to be there. So I decided I would try my first attempt at making Mom's baked beans. I brought my pot of beans from home, and when we were setting out the food Pop decided to try a sample of the beans I brought. It was with great joy I heard Pop pronounce "These are just like [my mother]'s."

Could you share this recipe?

 

[BigBoy99]

Last week made a large pot of ham and bean soup - My Favorite. Wife will eat a small bowl, I think out of politeness. I've packaged it up and have about 4-5 containers in the freezer. If fact, I think one container is coming out for today's lunch!

Here is my recipe:

Bean Soup

1 lb. Navy or Great Northern Beans
1 ham bone or ham hock
7 cups water
1 Large Onion, diced
3 Ribs of celery, chopped fine
1 Large potato, peeled and finely diced
2 Garlic Cloves, minced
1½ teaspoons of salt
½ teaspoons of black pepper
2 Tablespoons of chopped Parsley

Soak the beans overnight. Drain and place in pot with ham (bone of hock) and water. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer until beans are tender. Remove ham (bone of hock), discard bone, skin, and dice meat. Return meat to pot and continue simmering and add onion, celery, potato salt and pepper. Simmer until potato pieces are soft (30-45 minutes). Remove pot from heat and mash with a potato masher until soup is a bit creamy. Garnish with parsley.