Fall is here, time for some beans!

[LoboGunLeather]

Yesterday 57F, overcast, light rain, downright chilly. Overnight 41F, new furnace performing nicely. Today predicted low 60s and partly cloudy.

Big change from last week with temps in the low 90s.

Out the door in an hour or so, ready to feed the geezer population at the VFW post.

Started the crock pot about 4:30AM. Pintos, red beans, great northerns, baby limas, kidney beans, (1 #303 can each), 2 cans diced tomatoes, 1 diced onion, 1 diced bell pepper, 2 pounds diced ham scraps, 1 cup diced celery, sprinkle of sea salt with garlic, touch of cumin.

Two hours on high, then 3 hours on low. About 5 quarts (18-20 servings).

Start serving at 11:30AM MST. See the bartender for your preferred beverage.

Next week will be Texas-style chili with beans.

 

[Nevada Ed]

I was just thinking that same thing the other day.

Nothing like a bowl of hot chili on a cold or wet day, to brighten your spirits.

 

[doublesharp]

This is an old picture but I wish is wasn't.

Not chili either just good ol pintos and cornbread... yum yum

 

[Rudi]

Navy beans with ham hocks and onion.

 

[coltle6920]

There's are recipes for 15 bean soup out there online. Impossible to find 15 different beans at my market. What I did have turned out great.

I like to mash some of the beans and even add 1-2 tbsp flour to thicken things up.

 

[Rustyt1953]

We had chicken fajitas with refried beans tonight. I'm sure the results will be the same.

 

[glenwolde]

Next week will be Texas-style chili with beans.

If it's got beans, it ain't Texas-style........

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Yesterday 57F, overcast, light rain, downright chilly. Overnight 41F, new furnace performing nicely. Today predicted low 60s and partly cloudy.

Big change from last week with temps in the low 90s.

Out the door in an hour or so, ready to feed the geezer population at the VFW post.

Started the crock pot about 4:30AM. Pintos, red beans, great northerns, baby limas, kidney beans, (1 #303 can each), 2 cans diced tomatoes, 1 diced onion, 1 diced bell pepper, 2 pounds diced ham scraps, 1 cup diced celery, sprinkle of sea salt with garlic, touch of cumin.

Two hours on high, then 3 hours on low. About 5 quarts (18-20 servings).

Start serving at 11:30AM MST. See the bartender for your preferred beverage.

Next week will be Texas-style chili with beans.

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

 

[glenwolde]

Probably the most famous of Texas chili recipes is "Perdernales Chili", the recipe for which is often credited to Lady Bird Johnson. It's far more likely that the recipe came from Zephyr Wright who was the Johnson's personal chef for some 25+ years including his term in the White House. I don't think Lady Bird whipped up many pots of chili in her day. The recipe is easily found on the Interwebs if anybody wants to try a hand at an authentic recipe.

 

[zeke]

refried beans is a staple here, and easy/healthy/quick to make in a instant pot. Am using various peppers, garlic, onions, spices and add finely chopped up cauliflower and broccoli. Can't tell the veggies are in there when done, and heat up some grated sharp cheddar with crackers (no salt) on top.

imo real chili is however ya like it.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

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

Really? I guess I'll have to make a run to Texas and show those folks how it's done AGAIN. I'm starting to think that the only reason Texans do these things is to get me to show up and fix dinner AGAIN.

 

[Narragansett]

Sounds great Lobo. I may try making some. Have not made them in years. I do not dice onions, but put rings in, and I use the secret ingredients of molasses, brown sugar and instant coffee. Oh, and skip the lima beans

PS, I have been known to throw a few tube steaks into the mix too

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Sounds great Lobo. I may try making some. Have not made them in years. I do not dice onions, but put rings in, and I use the secret ingredients of molasses, brown sugar and instant coffee. Oh, and skip the lima beans

PS, I have been known to throw a few tube steaks into the mix too

I'll skip the tube steaks, too many meals of beanie-weenies enforced by our budget when the kids were little. I have been known to substitute spicy smoked sausage for a little change (Cajun-style Anduille provides a nice flavor).

Holidays coming up again so hams will be readily available and bargain priced (usually under $1 per pound). We usually have a meal or two from a ham, then I cut slices for ham steaks, what's left is chunked and diced then frozen for use in soups and beans. The bone goes into the freezer also to be boiled up for a broth to start dried beans or split peas.

 

[jeffrefrig]

Something just don't smell right...

 

[ladder13]

Beans and meat, just meat? Bring it on.

No soupy concoction for me, needs some substance.

 

[mdf9183]

Well fall hasn't found it's way to Texas, we are still in the 90s everyday.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Sometimes I feel like a bean. Sometimes I don't.

 

[Chubbs103]

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.

 

[SweetMK]

A while back (a decade or so,,) we used to make chili for a weekend gathering of friends that we knew,,

My wife had a method of adding wheat berries to the chili,, EVERYONE loved it.

The wheat berries seemed to add a "nutty" flavor,, Very interesting.

We also made whole wheat bread (we have a grinder) and whole wheat chocolate chip cookies.

NO ONE missed the event,, the guys would bring their shotguns, we would skeet shoot for 2 to 3 hours.

Some of the older friends passed away, or moved,
the crowd got too small to eat the amount of chili that my wife would make,, so we stopped having the get together,,

We still get asked if there will be another chili get together soon,,,

 

[arjay]

That's sounds good! It inspired me to sauté some onions and garlic add lentils,ham ,celery and various herbs and spices to a pot of vegetable stock.We'll see in 3-4 hours.

 

[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.