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The Polack MSgt

(13,159 posts)
Tue Mar 27, 2018, 11:26 AM Mar 2018

There was a thread in the Lounge about BeanieWeanies - which are nasty

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Campbell's baked beans and hot dogs? uhrg - no thanx

My picnic beans recipe?
Black and pinto beans with pork and chilies:
1 large white onion - rough diced
1 or 2 Jalapenos (depending on their heat and your tolerance) seeded and diced
1 large Poblano pepper seeded and diced
I large clove of Garlic smashed into paste
1 to 1.5 pound smoked hocks
1 pound good quality smoked bacon, rough chopped
1 pound dry black beans
1 pound dry pintos
1 12 ounce bag of pigeon peas - If you can't find these up the quantity of pintos
Molasses
honey
Yellow mustard
Heinz Ketchup - I am from Pittsburgh, so it MUST BE HEINZ KETCHUP. If you use anything called Catsup, I will find you...
salt and pepper

Mix and soak the beans over night in lightly salted water (replace with unsalted water before boiling with the hocks).
Boil the beans and hocks with just enough liquid to come to a thick consistency - start with water 1 or 2 inches higher than the beans and add water as it reduces - you do not want the beans soupy

When the beans are almost done get the rest working

In a heavy stock pot or Dutch oven brown bacon and remove
Using the rendered bacon fat sweat the onions for 5 or 6 minutes
After the onions are soft and translucent add the chilies and garlic
Salt and pepper lightly, reduce heat and cover - and then head back to the beans

If you haven't done so yet, turn off the burner on the bean pot
Remove the hocks and as soon as they are touchable break them suckers down for cleaning (Removing the bones and gristle)
Chop the remaining meat and skin roughly and put in the pot with the veg
Pour the mostly cooked beans in that pot
Add all the bacon that survived your nibbling since you started cooking the onions
Add the molasses and honey - the amount depends on your sweet tooth, but use 2 molasses to 1 honey - and remember a cup of ketchup is coming up and that is like a tablespoon of sugar
stir and allow to incorporate - 20 minutes or so over low heat
Put in the ketchup - start with 3/4 cup
Add mustard - One long squeeze or table spoon at a time
mix and taste as you go - add ketchup and mustard a bit at a time until it seems right to you
salt and pepper to taste
Cover and store in the oven on it's lowest heat setting until ... well until you wanna eat 'em

I know that this seems like a lot of work, but it really isn't so bad and you'll be a hero - saving your kin and friends from Campbell's baked beans.
And you can be lazy as hell - using canned black and pinto beans if you want to.

Instead of boiling with ham hock, just fry some pork belly with the bacon. Don't just double the bacon - get pork belly so you can get the proper amount of pork fat for mouth feel without making the beans too salty/bacony

ETA - It occurs to me that not everyone buys whole pork bellies like my wife and I. Fatback and salt pork can also be used instead of pork belly with the canned beans.
I suppose if you really really like bacon you could just use a lot of it... Just seems to be a potential salt bomb to me...

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There was a thread in the Lounge about BeanieWeanies - which are nasty (Original Post) The Polack MSgt Mar 2018 OP
"If you use anything called Catsup, I will find you... " Glamrock Mar 2018 #1
your recipe sounds really good. Kali Mar 2018 #2
I loved Beanie Weenies as a kid! Jane Austin Mar 2018 #3

Kali

(54,990 posts)
2. your recipe sounds really good.
Tue Mar 27, 2018, 11:32 AM
Mar 2018

but beanie weenies are a whole different thing. sort of like the occasional taco bell is just what hits the spot but I would never call it Mexican food.

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