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What about Beans?!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 13, 2024, 02:49:39 pm ---My mother would never use green limas except as a side dish. But maybe I've misunderstood? I was thinking you were making this as a main dish.
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That's the only time I've eaten green ones, too -- when my mom served a package of frozen lima beans as a side dish.
--- Quote ---Dried lima beans soaked overnight, then basically stewed with ham hocks and broth, with diced potatoes added--that would have been a main dish. Before crock pots were invented, my mother would have done this on the stove. Later she would have used a crock pot. Of course she cooked the ham hocks first, to make the broth. Then she would have removed the meat from the bones and added it to the beans and potatoes.
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Your mother and I follow almost exactly the same method. Main difference is I don't add potatoes -- I have, in the past, served beans over rice, but I've mostly cut rice out for carb reasons (beans are also high in carbs but their high fiber makes up for it). And I don't make the broth with the ham hocks; I use chicken broth, sometimes canned (well, usually boxed, but it's liquid) sometimes homemade from the carcasses of store-bought rotisserie chicken. I add it and the ham hock at the beginning of cooking the beans.
--- Quote ---Ham hocks, bacon, molasses, brown sugar, and I-don't-know-what-all else is the way cooks where I come from would make homemade baked beans (unfortunately no bourbon). The difference would be that they would use dried lima beans--soaked overnight, of course. Maybe that's a Central Pennsylvania thing.
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In my part of the country we usually just open a can of Van Camp's, maybe add some browned hamburger or bacon. But we don't often eat baked beans anymore; that was more of a '60s thing around here.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 13, 2024, 07:36:45 pm ---That's the only time I've eaten green ones, too -- when my mom served a package of frozen lima beans as a side dish.
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I once bought half a pint of fresh limas from a produce vendor at a farmers'market. They were good. ...
--- Quote ---I have, in the past, served beans over rice.
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That's the way I like chili, not as something you eat out of a bowl, but over a bed of brown rice. Sometimes I'll melt cheese on top of it. I usually pair it with a salad and a slice or two of whole-wheat bread. Not the healthiest of meals, but I like it. (OCD once told me I was weird for eating chili that way. I don't care. I like it that way.)
--- Quote ---In my part of the country we usually just open a can of Van Camp's, maybe add some browned hamburger or bacon. But we don't often eat baked beans anymore; that was more of a '60s thing around here.
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They're still very much a thing, at least in Central Pennsylvania. When I buy canned baked beans, I prefer Bush's.
Front-Ranger:
My latest meal involving beans is a turkey tortilla soup. It is a delicious mixture of black beans, corn, shredded turkey, Rotel tomatoes and chili, chicken broth, onions, garlic, and potatoes with garnishes of sour cream, green onion, and crisped tortilla strips.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 16, 2024, 12:28:14 pm ---My latest meal involving beans is a turkey tortilla soup. It is a delicious mixture of black beans, corn, shredded turkey, Rotel tomatoes and chili, chicken broth, onions, garlic, and potatoes with garnishes of sour cream, green onion, and crisped tortilla strips.
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Sounds yummy!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 13, 2024, 10:38:14 pm ---That's the way I like chili, not as something you eat in out of a bowl, but over a bed of brown rice. Sometimes I'll melt cheese on top of it. I usually pair it with a salad and a slice or two of whole-wheat bread. Not the healthiest of meals, but I like it. (OCD once told me I was weird for eating chili that way. I don't care. I like it that way.)
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What do you mean? It sounds healthy to me.
--- Quote ---When I buy canned baked beans, I prefer Bush's.
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Yes, another classic brand.
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