Posted on 05/14/2009 3:58:17 PM PDT by housemouse 1
My family is on a pinto bean diet, i'll call it that because money tight and this is all we have to eat, well rice, and homemade tortillas, but even those few inbetween times we can have eggs, cheese, fruit, vegtables, it's mostly beans, i make plain, and chili version, leftovers become soup, my kids think we are going to die, what i'd like to hear is what someone else thinks?
My point was really that SPAM with it’s salt and fat cooks well with the beans. It flavors them nicely. Frankly I’ve never considered cooking pinto beans with chicken, but it doesn’t sound bad at all. Any tips (bone, shread..)?
Beans and rice are NOT healthy if your family is prone to diabetes.
I hope mine never wise up; it would upset the finely honed equilibrium of my recipes and shopping list terribly.
Practically anything goes with cornbread, I think. I like it
with chili, roast gravy, stews and sometimes with just butter.
One of my grandmother’s favorite meals was okra gumbo and cornbread.
Umm mmmm makes me hungry!
plus you can light them to stay warm
I love black-eyed peas, canned tomatoes and cornbread for supper. Navy beans are a good substitute for the black-eyed peas. Onions are good on the side.
I used to always get red beans and rice in New Orleans. I’ve never made that, but I am going to next week for a large group. In fact, everyone is bringing some form of beans and rice.
Corn meal mush is wonderful.
You can make syrup with sugar water & maple flavoring or some kind of flavoring.
Survival threads. Also see NW_grandma (I think that’s her name. Great lady. Or Delawhere)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1990507/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2181392/posts
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I also remember bean soup. Any kind of soup. With saltines. Great stuff. Still eat it.
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Never, ever, ever use the piezoelectric ignited lighter. Ever.
My wife makes it on occasion now but it is way more expensive as we are too far North for most year around gardens and beans cost a lot more than the 4 cents a pound I remember.
Ha.
No need to pray for my family. We eat real meat with our chili beans. Unless it’s stir fry night. Then we eat real meat with our rice.
BTW, my “family” consists of me and my red lab.
Lots of people have suggested combining beans with rice. I’d just like to point out there are a good many other grains that provide similar complementarity. My family especially enjoys bulgur wheat, which has the neat benefit that it doesn’t even need cooking, if you’re really trying to save energy and therefore money.
Corn can also be prepared as polenta and served as a base for spiced-up beans.
Love them Pinto Beans.
The venison I don’t have cut into steaks I have ground with jalapeno’s and bacon. When I make Pinto beans I usually throw in a pound of the venison mix a can of Rotel hot and a teaspoon of yellow mustard. Cook them down until they’re nice and thick. Good stuff.
One of my favorite meals is to chop up a whole chicken, season with S&P, maybe a little oregano and fresh garlic, and saute in oil, EVOO if you have it, until browned, cooked through and delicious, I cheat and cook a packet of yellow rice (I like Mahatma; some prefer Vigo) and couple with this wonderful refried pintos recipe:
http://capesanblascookbook.com/2007/10/06/refried-pintos/
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