Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire A Pot of Beans?

stxhunter too I think but he's probably out chasing young puzzy

It chases him!

add:
1/2 cup ground cooked venison
1/4 cup frozen peas
1/8 cup chopped frozen spinach
1/8 cup frozen kale
1 tablespoon Chipotle Tabasco sauce

stir

3:30 in a 1200 Watt microwave

Eat

Freshly harvested pintos don’t need to be soaked overnight. After they are 6 months old or so they do, the complex sugars turn into complex starches.

thank me later.

https://www.homesicktexan.com/2015/07/pinto-beans-aaron-franklin-barbecue.html

Good pot of beans require some porker products.
Side dishes: Cornbread, Fried Spuds, Greens..

I cooked a pot last week. There was no complaining.

Yummy!

Is barrow belly ok?

As a service to my community I opt to not eat beans.

Step one is to buy and eat a ham. Save the rind and bone from the ham.
If you want to use a crockpot or just a pot on the stove soak your beans overnight and rinse two or three times under cold running water.

If you have an InstantPot soaking won’t hurt but isn’t required though they still need rinsed and counted. ( Counting the beans is a family joke since my uncle saw my grandmother sorting the rocks out of beans and assumed she was counting them).

Put your ham bone and scraps in your pot and dump the beans in. Put a can of chicken broth in and then water to cover the beans by a couple inches. Salt to taste.

If pressure cooking set your pot for 1 hour and lock it up. Otherwise bring to a boil and reduce to simmering. Simmer until beans are tender and soup thickens. In the instant pot turn it to warm after the timer is up and let it relieve pressure naturally.

Serve with salty iron skillet cornbread and a chopped sweet onion.

Pinto beans soaked over night then cooked all day with salt pork and some bacon grease. Corn bread made in a cast iron skillet. Grew up eating them.

Ron

Don’t forget home made sweet pickles

We like most any beans, but prefer navy beans,
for a pot with ham.

I enjoy pintos out of a can or just cooked and eatin in a bowl.


Two recipes below are used to make been soup for the US Senate.
Offered daily, it an interesting tradition.

Have wanted to try one of these for a long time. Never got around to it.
The second one intrigues me. But I'm not making 5 gallon.


The Famous Senate Restaurant Bean Soup Recipe
2 pounds dried navy beans
four quarts hot water
1 1/2 pounds smoked ham hocks
1 onion, chopped
2 tablespoons butter
salt and pepper to taste
Wash the navy beans and run hot water through them until they are slightly whitened. Place beans into pot with hot water. Add ham hocks and simmer approximately three hours in a covered pot, stirring occasionally. Remove ham hocks and set aside to cool. Dice meat and return to soup. Lightly brown the onion in butter. Add to soup. Before serving, bring to a boil and season with salt and pepper. Serves 8.[2]

Bean Soup Recipe (for five gallons)
3 pounds dried navy beans
2 pounds of ham and a ham bone
1 quart mashed potatoes
5 onions, chopped
2 stalks of celery, chopped
four cloves garlic, chopped
half a bunch of parsley, chopped
Clean the beans, then cook them dry. Add ham, bone and water and bring to a boil. Add potatoes and mix thoroughly. Add chopped vegetables and bring to a boil. Simmer for one hour before serving.[

somebody say cowboy beans...?

Thanks everyone I was pretty sure I'd get the intel here and I sure did, much obliged.

Picked up two smoked pork hocks and some pinto beans today. And some corn meal for my wife who's going to do the corn bread. I'll soak the beans tonight reread this tomorrow and firm up a plan. I will definitely try this with smoked brisket another time that sounds deadly but not in the cards this time. Looking forward to tomorrow

Your house might smell like a sewage treatment plant for a couple of days. 🤣🤣

I like the cornbread pancake style.

I crumble a piece of it on my plate & pour the beans on top. I might enhance w/fresh onion or dice peppers or the hot sauce of choice. But I never try to overpower the taste of the beans & cornbread base with a bunch of other spices or flavors.

It's really about the beans. They're so good by themselves when prepared well.

Great navy beans seem gasy
to me.

I make mine as meat with beans and not vice versa and straight ham is way too salty if you've got more than a couple of chunks in there. So I'll throw in the ham bone and then fortify the pot with a couple extra pounds of chopped brisket, pulled pork shoulder, chuck roast, etc. Even white meat chicken is edible with a decent stock to help it along.

Don't be shy with garden peppers, onions, and jalapenos either.

I find with any other beans as long as they're rinsed really good after soaking the flatulence isn't too bad. We'll see how it goes wish me luck. lol