Posted: 11/18/2008 1:57:36 PM EDT
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I like the following:
Take some bacon, cut it up, and throw it in a frying pan. Now take some green pepper and some onion and do the same. Fry until the onions start to clear. Then add it to your pinto beans. As a side note. If you don't want to do the above, you might want to add some chili to your beans. 
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I like the following: Take some bacon, cut it up, and throw it in a frying pan. Now take some green pepper and some onion and do the same. Fry until the onions start to clear. Then add it to your pinto beans. As a side note. If you don't want to do the above, you might want to add some chili to your beans. Take some bacon, cut it up, and throw it in a frying pan. Now take some green pepper and some onion and do the same. Fry until the onions start to clear. Then add it to your pinto beans. Small chunks of ham can also be added with the bacon, and use a generous amount of Cholula and WOW! HH |
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Pintos cooked from scratch? Or out of a can?
Scratch is the way to go. Get a bag of them, wash them thoroughly, lay them out in a single layer on a plate and look for rocks and dirt, remove any rocks or dirt, wash them again, throw them in a pot with a nice chunk of fatback and simmer them, keeping them fully covered in water, until they're as tender as mashed potatoes and the skin curls up on them if you take some out and blow on them. Ladle some into a bowl and add fresh onion, a little of your favorite hot sauce, or some finely diced hot peppers of your choice, and maybe some hot sauce along with that. The peppers-in-vinegar sauce is great, too. Add a dollop of fresh cold sour cream and you've got something really awesome. Add salt and pepper to taste. THAT is awesome stuff right there! I think I'll start a batch tomorrow! CJ |
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Fry up some Mexican chorizo. While it is cooking partially smash up the beans so there are still some whole ones mixed in with the smashed ones.
After the grease has cooked out of the chorizo a little, drain it off and dump the chorizo into the beans. Cook them together for a while until the mixture thickens up a bit. You can use this as a bean dip, or you can put in on a fried tortilla shell (tostada), add some cheese, chicken, lettuce, salsa... 
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Bacon (is there anything it can't do?)
Ham Chunks Kielbasa Chunks Smoked Sausage Chunks Andoullie Chunks Crawfish Shrimp Chicken Squirrel Rabbit Great Awk Probably even some beef could be added and still be tasty. Venison Meat balls Salt, pepper, garlic, hotsauce, Onion (cooked or raw) Add some rice, a can of diced or stewed tomatoes for variety too. Mash em up and eat em on a tortilla, with cheese, salsa, seasoned meat of your choice. |
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I'm cooking some right now.
Soak two cups overnight (after you check 'em for rocks). Add the meat from four ea. smoked hamhocks (you need to cut the meat out and cut away as much fat and other non-meat like ligaments as you can). Add one large or two med yellow onions. Add at least 3 jalepenos cut in half. De-seed if you must. Add two med-large cloves of garlic (crushed or sliced). Add pepper. ETA: Don't forget Betty Crotch brand Corn Bread Muffin mix (just add water). I make two packages (.39 cents ea) and serve with lots of butter. Cover with water and let simmer until soft. I cook mine in a crotch pot for about 7 hours. Serve with beer. |
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I'm cooking some right now. Soak two cups overnight (after you check 'em for rocks). Add the meat from four ea. smoked hamhocks (you need to cut the meat out and cut away as much fat and other non-meat like ligaments as you can). Add one large or two med yellow onions. Add at least 3 jalepenos cut in half. De-seed if you must. Add two med-large cloves of garlic (crushed or sliced). Add pepper. ETA: Don't forget Betty Crotch brand Corn Bread Muffin mix (just add water). I make two packages (.39 cents ea) and serve with lots of butter. Cover with water and let simmer until soft. I cook mine in a crotch pot for about 7 hours. Serve with beer. That sounds great. Forgive my ignorance, but how much are ham hocks and where can I buy them? 
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| I work with a guy who adds mayo or Miracle Whip to his (in the bowl, not while cooking). I'll try just about anything food-wise, but that just ain't right. YMMV. I added a little ground pork to a pot I cooked up the other day. I browned it in the skillet with a little Dillo Dust. Turned out pretty tasty and added a little extra. |
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They're a regular part of our menu.
Sorted, rinsed, soaked overnight, cooked all day with salt pepper onion and garlic. 'Bout dinner time, cook a pot of quality rice, and fry some large beef burger patties. Place a patty on the plate and top with some rice. Then poor the beans over the top. (Use a ladle so you get plenty of juice/gravy) If you spice it right, you'll mail me "thank you" cards every year for the rest of your life. 
Never served it to anyone who didn't ask for more, and the recipe. My kids beg for it every weekend.... no kidding. (all three say it's their favorite, and we serve damned near everything here, including plenty of dining out. I agree with them) Good eats! (thanks mom  )
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Geez, not again...
Go to Anasazibeans.com, and order some of their anasazi beans, as well as their Adobe Mills brand bacon bean spice and chile crush. Put one lb of the beans in a crockpot, along with six or seven cups of water, three tablespoons of the bacon bean spice, a chopped onion, a few cloves of garlic, a tablespoon of the chile crush, and a couple pounds of ham hocks, smoked pork neck bones, or a good ham bone if you can get one. Cook on low for six to eight hours, serve with flour tortillas, shredded cheese and chopped onion, or with cornbread. Anasazi beans are excellent, taste better'n pintos, don't need soaking overnight and produce much less gas. If you MUST have pintos, Adobe Mills sells those too––they're from Dove Creek, Colorado, the Pinto Bean Capital of the World. Their chili powders and other spices are great, too. |
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Smoked ham hocks, my local wal mart has them.
I soak and rinse the beans for 2 days, changing the water 3 times, then into a crock pot and cover with water, add the ham hocks, close the lid, set on high and walk away for 4 hours, reduce heat to low and walk away come back in 3 to 4 hours, un cover, add salt to taste. While soaking the beans, I toss out any broken beans and any beans that float to the top of the water get culled as well. I make Shawnee Mills corn bread muffins and serve with real butter. |
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What can I add to them to make them tastier? My kids love this: Cook the beans until real close to being done. Cut up a couple of slices of onion and toss um in. Salt and pepper to taste. I have a stash of dried habinero(sp?) peppers. If I feel like it I toss a pinch into the beans. |
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I'm cooking some right now. Soak two cups overnight (after you check 'em for rocks). Add the meat from four ea. smoked hamhocks (you need to cut the meat out and cut away as much fat and other non-meat like ligaments as you can). Add one large or two med yellow onions. Add at least 3 jalepenos cut in half. De-seed if you must. Add two med-large cloves of garlic (crushed or sliced). Add pepper. ETA: Don't forget Betty Crotch brand Corn Bread Muffin mix (just add water). I make two packages (.39 cents ea) and serve with lots of butter. Cover with water and let simmer until soft. I cook mine in a crotch pot for about 7 hours. Serve with beer. That sounds great. Forgive my ignorance, but how much are ham hocks and where can I buy them? Leave the whole hock together and pick around the bone and other non edibles . Bone equals taste or so I tell my wife.  Any meat market has them buy a large pack and freeze the extras for other use. If you want you can make a hamhock stock and then use the liquid and just cut the meat off to put in your beans.
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