Pinto Beans?

[briarpatch]

Fixed a big pot of pinto beans today, threw the big ole ham hocks from two hams we had from Thanksgiving in pot. What a meal.
I was raised on them things. The way I like them is to take a big chunk of cornbread and put it in my plate, spoon the beans, ham and a lot of soup over the bread. Fill the plate up to almost over flowing, throw a big goop of mayonnaise on top, with chunk of onion and pile of chow-chow on the side. It all goes to the same place, just start where you want and eat.

[possume]

it all sounds good but the mayo i like mayo but not sure about it on beans

[briarpatch]

Possume, where I worked we were provided a kitchen and we would have beans often. Everyone loved them. I would get the mayo out and put on my beans, most would turn their nose up at it. After a while a guy would try it then another until almost all of them were using mayo on their beans. It got to where you had bring a jar with you if you wanted any. We would say we were going to fix beans and someone would say "we got mayo". All I can say is try it. I finally talked my son in law to try it and now he has to have mayo with his beans.

[possume]

im gonna put some beans on sunday night i will try that monday and get back with you

[magooch]

Change that to Great Northern, or Navy beans and substitute ketchup for the mayonaise and I'm there.
 
Oh, and a little while later, we can have a contest.  Yeeha!

[powderman]

I definitely never tried mayo on beans, might try a spoon though. We usually have a mixed pot of various kinds, add split peas, lentils, barley, garlic pwdr, 2 onions, one chopped, one whole, a couple drops of liquid smoke, 1 cut up dried red pepper, and a can of chicken broth, had some Sunday after Church. Hardly ever use hamhocks, too expensive. We buy a smoked picnic ham and cut it up in chunks and add that. Gets several meals and xtra meat on the  plate, or bowl. Making me hungry. POWDERMAN. 

[Old Syko]

Navy beans!  No mayo no ketchup, just plenty of ham, onion and cornbread.  Then It's every man, woman and child for themselves.      BTW they're always better the second day so make a big pot.   

[AtlLaw]

Fixed a big pot of pinto beans today, threw the big ole ham hocks from two hams we had from Thanksgiving in pot. What a meal.

I dearly love pinto beans!  my mouth is watering just thinking of a big pot of 'em fixed just like you said!    
 
But

a lot of soup over the bread.

  Isn't it more pot liquor then soup?     But then I never used that term with pinto beans... only blackeyed peas.  I use ham hocks in my pintos and Lima's, but hog jowls in my BE peas... and my collards... got to have some meat in my greens...  and I still can't find a turnip green I like as much as those I used to grow, never put no meat in them anyway, just cut up the root... unless I bought just the greens and didn't have no root... kinda like those weeds yankees eat... dandi-lions... I hear they put vinegar on them!  Now I like a little of that hot pepper sauce they make with whole peppers and vinegar, but just vinegar!?  I unintentionally made some wine vinegar before... never figured out how I did it so I have to buy it from the grocery store... we got a lot of grocery stores around where I live... Publix, Kroger and some others I...    I...    um, what were we talking about?   

[Conan The Librarian]

Pinto beans, yeah! I make my version of "convenience food red beans and rice" like this:
 
1 15oz can of "chili beans in mild sauce" (2 cans if you like more beans)
1 15oz can of whole tomatoes, torn by hand into little pieces (diced or stewed 'maters are OK too.)
2 chopped stalks of celery
1 chopped green pepper
1 diced medium onion
olive oil for sauteeing
3/4 cup of dry brown rice and 1.5 cups of water
Plenty of chili powder
Hot sauce and salt to taste.
 
Prep time is five minutes. Cooking time is about 45 minutes.
 
1) Cook the rice in the water in a small pot. It'll take about 45 minutes to cook the brown rice until the kernels burst.
    If you don't know how to cook rice, let me know and I'll post the instructions. The main instruction is to never follow the
    instructions on the bag it comes in. White rice cooks in about half the time.
2) In a larger pot, sautee the chopped onion, pepper and celery in the oil until the onions are clear.
3) Add the beans and the tomatoes and at least two heaping tablespoons of chili powder to the large pot. This includes the sauce that's in the cans. Get it bubbling, stir it, turn the heat down to a simmer, and cover the pot. Let it cook until the rice is done. The important thing is that the peppers have to be very tender.
4) Mix the cooked rice into the large pot
5) Season with salt and hot sauce to taste.
 
If you want some meat in it, just add any kind of meat to the big pot while the beans are cooking. I like slices of coarse ground kielbasa in mine. But any cheap leftover meat that has already been cooked is good.
 
It's really easy and everybody that's tried it has liked it.
 
 

[briarpatch]

 

Isn't it more pot liquor then soup?

Yes Richard it is, but I didnt know how many would know what was said. Also when growing up in western NC, you very seldom heard the term "pinto beans" we called them "soup beans"
Next time you have soup beans put a big goop of mayo on them. You can either stir it in or just go pull some off the goop with each bite. Something I forgot to mention was, Use celery salt in place of table salt when you salt the beans in your plate.

[briarpatch]

With the weather turning cold, Conan, that sounds like a good chili type meal. Cold weather was when a good pot of beans would shine. We would get in the bed with what seemed like 10 quilts and the brown holes would start talking to each other. You almost had to have a snorkel to breathe. Good eats good times.

[powderman]

CONAN. Your recipe reminds me of dirty rice and beans. 1 can lucks mixed beans, 1 can of diced tomatoes, green pepper, garlic, an onion, cook with a box of zatterans dirty rice mix, add 1+ lb of cooked burger, let simmer an hour or so. POWDERMAN. 

[Hit or Miss]

Gotta love them pintos!  I also like a bowl of them with a nice scoop of browned chorizo sausage spooned over the top.  A little chopped onion and a couple of dashes of Tapatio to give it a little heat and peeyow, let the games begin!

[mtbugle]

always like a couple celery sticks cutup in the beens. Mayo I'll have to try.
Thanks Don.

[sidewinder319]

Mayo on Pony Beans??    That is Damn awful    Dirty rice is made with chicken livers that is what makes it dirty, but good.

[gr8ful]

don't know about the mayo, but a spoonful of sour cream sure is good!

[CannonKrazy]

With all this talk about beans I seem to remember something about a poem . Beans Beans are good for ya heart, The more ya eat the more ya ...OH. I remember now.

[streak]

 briarpatch,
I am with you on the corn bread, chow chow on the beans sans the mayo!!
 My mother used to make chow chow and chili sauce both of which went great on pinto beans!
 Better yet purple hull peas or blackeyed peas with the same combination listed above!!
 Back in my younger days the cornbread was made from the cornmeal ground up at the gristmill at the old millpond, my grandpa and I would take the corn out of the corn bin and take it to the gristmill, that was cool to watch those big old circular stones grind up that corn. The grinding stones were powered by the water from the millpond. Really tasty cornbread!

[littlecanoe]

My grandma cooked on a wood stove until the mid 70's.
They were old school early to bed and early to rise.
She ALWAYS had a pot of pinto beans going, cooked on that wood stove.

When I was a wee boy we'd go over there on Sunday afternoons.
My "PawPaw" would always say to my dad, "Harold, ya'll git somethin' to eat"!
My Dad would say, "Naw Dad, we already ate".
PawPaw, "Lord, Harold, git somethin' to eat"!

By that time I was having an internal conversation with my dad, "What are you talking about!?  I want some of those beans"!

There was always some cold cornbread and some sliced potatoes fried up in the skillet.

PawPaw would slide the bean pot over and drop a couple pieces of kindling in the firebox and MAN!
I've never eaten beans like MawMaws! 

Thick soup, lard, salt, fatback/pork slow cooked from before daylight!

Good beans!
Good memories!

My aunt comes close but they're just not quite the same.

lc

[blind ear]

Gimme somma aluvit. Got to go change my shirt now. ear

[chefjeff]

 BEAN SANDWICH>We used to take leftover pintos,a big spoon of mayo and mix,then eat it open face with a fork on white bread or toast. Also,try a little mayo with your green beans,a little sliver with a forkfull. Don't knock it til you've tried it. You can cook pinto's with a small potato,said to remove some of the flatulence.   PS-don't eat the 'tater!

[briarpatch]

Chefjeff, I know what you mean. There was one guy at work that started eating mayo on his beans and everyone would try to get to the mayo before he did. He would eat half a jar on his beans. He told me he could not even eat a bean without it now.

[powderman]

We always add some dried celery and dried carrots to the pot too, unless we happen to have some fresh. This time of year celery gets cheap so we buy a bunch and cut it up and dry it, we buy carrots and onions on sale and dry them too. We found a dry bean this year called a mex yello that is good too.
I raised several different kinds of dry beans one year. I was disappointed in the Swedish brown, seemed to take forever to cook and not very tasty. We had yelloweyes, soldier beans, dwarf horticulture, Christmas lima, great northern, brown, navy, baby limas, and another I can't remember the name of. Also a patch of purple hulls and browb crowders. The yelloweyes were our favorites. Wish I could get some locally. POWDERMAN. 

[m-g Willy]

MAYO ON BEANS?
That's crazy!!!!
Beans with the ham hocks is what I grew up on.
Mom would make eithwer corn bread ot potato pancakes ( NOT POTATO PATTYS)
WE put beans on a plate ,never in a bowl and spiced it up with vingar or hot pepper juice.
NOW I GOTTA TRY MAYO!!!
Any other weird stuff you guys gonna get me to tyr?

[hillbill]

MAYO ON BEANS?
That's crazy!!!!
Beans with the ham hocks is what I grew up on.
Mom would make eithwer corn bread ot potato pancakes ( NOT POTATO PATTYS)
WE put beans on a plate ,never in a bowl and spiced it up with vingar or hot pepper juice.
NOW I GOTTA TRY MAYO!!!
Any other weird stuff you guys gonna get me to tyr?

ummm dont stay here to long or yull be eatin bbq coon, turnips, deer liver and crawdads!

[blind ear]

MAYO ON BEANS?
That's crazy!!!!
Beans with the ham hocks is what I grew up on.
Mom would make eithwer corn bread ot potato pancakes ( NOT POTATO PATTYS)
WE put beans on a plate ,never in a bowl and spiced it up with vingar or hot pepper juice.
NOW I GOTTA TRY MAYO!!!
Any other weird stuff you guys gonna get me to tyr?

ummm dont stay here to long or yull be eatin bbq coon, turnips, deer liver and crawdads!

And that's good as it gets. ear

[hillbill]

uuuummm dont want to seem like novice here but what is 'chow chow'?
 

[blind ear]

uuuummm dont want to seem like novice here but what is 'chow chow'?

A type of pickle relish. ear

[Hooker]

Pinto beans we call them red beans my daddy called them Hoover strawberries.
I like them cooked with ham until your can float a fork in the gravy with fried taters, fried chicken, Mexican corn bread, a slice of onion, and sweet ice tea.

Pat

[mechanic]

It's 9:25 in Ga., I've been working all day and I'm dog  tired.  Now I'm starving.  Now I've got to go and heat up some beans, and mix them with some cole slaw and hot pepper sauce, and some cold cornbread......all was well until I read this post!
 
Sometimes this site is worse than the TV at making me hungry when I should be asleep.....
 
Ben