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One of my grandmothers served brown (pinto) beans with every meal and our family was very poor for many generations. The crazy thing is, the one thing we were 'not poor enough' to do, according to grandma, was eat greens. That's what desperate people did, only starving people ate greens, 'folks who don't know no better' (racist code) and even though we were regularly desperate for money we didn't eat greens because that would have meant admitting we were on the bottom. I've been grown up now for a longlonglonglong time and eat greens with pleasure. Can't help but wonder if grandma had slipped some greens into her beans that her children would have lived much healthier lives. Her cooking theory and legacy have killed five cousins younger than I (obesity, diabetes, heart attack, arthritis, cancer). Fried meat, fried 'taters, biscuits and white gravy every day, sometimes more than once a day, set a pattern for them that their bodies could not overcome.
Greens in beans is a heavenly dish and I thank you for the inspiration. To your continued good health! 
and tomatoes. 
re-write suggestions / additions. Pretty typical grant process, but last minute input really pushes it. There still remained the leg work - take the finished product down to our fiscal agent, get signatures for the legal stuff, run off five copies, collate and deliver all neatly packaged to the granting agency. (pinto whining here)
Anyway, it got done. Yeah! Once back home I went for the mac 'n cheese. Simple and there's time for some DU browsing and a movie.
Tomorrow I'm going to step up the curried ground pork, green bean menu.
The most incredible, sublime vegetable soup was awaiting me when I arrived home from class.
And there is a story behind that, which I will tell another day when it is not 1:45 a.m.
Cher
