Canned refried beans.

[phalanx]

The best one is Rosarita or i think so , so do other people they clear them off the shelves as soon as they are there.
Locals have been making and selling it.so is the jalapeno poppers now.







jgreat stuff .if you have the gut for it.

[wtxbadger]

We buy Gebhardts canned refried beans and they are pretty good for canned refried beans. Inexpensive and a good meal for burritos or bean nachos.

[Ranger99]

Eat em all the time
I just get the ones labeled "traditional "
and every brand I've tried was
ok. Here in the hood, there's
no shortage of all manners of
mex food. I usually make up
some rice to go with it.

Half the world lives on beans
and rice

[ironglow]

OK..so how do you use them?

[Ranger99]

Just like any other vegetable
Heat and eat, or as part of a recipe

[ironglow]

  I tried that and they were OK..but I guess it's an acquired taste.  I rather like something like Bush's Best beans with
   Maple Syrup.
   ..But no doubt they are very popular..they have been in stores around here for a few years now.  THere used to be a b8and around here called "Grandma Brown's" baked beans, as I recall, made in Mexico,NY. They were more the consistency of refried beans..a pasty style.  Don't know whatever happened to them, haven't seen them for years.
  Maybe the refried chased them out-...

or a quick lunch, I can take some canned beans..of a good brand and almost any style..maple, bown sugar or other,
  then slip some on a slice of bread, spread some mayo on the other slice...then slap them together, for a good meal.

[oldandslow]

The chief cook and bottle washer never uses refried beans in any of her meals so I can't comment on the canned variety's qualitys. We do eat quite a few pintos though but not squawshed. She does a killer flat enchilada and it gets whole beans. I have never heard anyone complain about it either.

IG, I wish you could eat at Rosa's. They have the best refries going. My wife and I have a date to go there next Tuesday. She loves their tacos and they have Taco Tuesday every week. They are half priced that day. Really good eating at a really good price.

[Dee]

Sometimes I'll chop up a couple a jalapenos and stir into a can, juice and all.

[ironglow]

The chief cook and bottle washer never uses refried beans in any of her meals so I can comment on the canned variety's qualitys. We do eat quite a few pintos though but not squawshed. She does a killer flat enchilada and it gets whole beans. I have never heard anyone complain about it either.

IG, I wish you could eat at Rosa's. They have the best refries going. My wife and I have a date to go there next Tuesday. She loves their tacos and they have Taco Tuesday every week. They are half priced that day. Really good eating at a really good price.

  Interesting turn your Mrs. does with the pinto beans.  Where is Rosa's located?  Perhaps I can at least get a look at the place on Google street level.

  Hey..I did a Google search and found this..is it possible?

[Bob Riebe]

Half the world lives on beans and rice

Years back I would go into a Mexican restaurant  and naturally you got rice and beans as part of a plate.
Back then I had zero love for re-fried beans but once, when I thought it is wasteful to not eat the beans, I mixed it with the rice and was not bad at all.
Quality of rice and beans counts.  Yet now I actually like it and will eat the other halfs if she does not.

I have never bought a can of re-fried beans but that may change.

[oldandslow]

The chief cook and bottle washer never uses refried beans in any of her meals so I can comment on the canned variety's qualitys. We do eat quite a few pintos though but not squawshed. She does a killer flat enchilada and it gets whole beans. I have never heard anyone complain about it either.

IG, I wish you could eat at Rosa's. They have the best refries going. My wife and I have a date to go there next Tuesday. She loves their tacos and they have Taco Tuesday every week. They are half priced that day. Really good eating at a really good price.

  Interesting turn your Mrs. does with the pinto beans.  Where is Rosa's located?  Perhaps I can at least get a look at the place on Google street level.

  Hey..I did a Google search and found this..is it possible?

That looks like most of them. Some of the older one's look a little different. It's a West Texas chain that snuck one across the border into Hobbs, NM. They have a green chile stew that will really warm you up on a cold day and it is delicious. The recipe is on the internet as my wife found it and makes the dish now and then. Delicious and the heat content depends on what green chile you use.

[Mule 11]

I had a green chili chicken burrito in Arizona and it was the best burrito I’ve had...

[Dee]

The chief cook and bottle washer never uses refried beans in any of her meals so I can comment on the canned variety's qualitys. We do eat quite a few pintos though but not squawshed. She does a killer flat enchilada and it gets whole beans. I have never heard anyone complain about it either.

IG, I wish you could eat at Rosa's. They have the best refries going. My wife and I have a date to go there next Tuesday. She loves their tacos and they have Taco Tuesday every week. They are half priced that day. Really good eating at a really good price.

  Interesting turn your Mrs. does with the pinto beans.  Where is Rosa's located?  Perhaps I can at least get a look at the place on Google street level.

  Hey..I did a Google search and found this..is it possible?

That looks like most of them. Some of the older one's look a little different. It's a West Texas chain that snuck one across the border into Hobbs, NM. They have a green chile stew that will rally warm you up on a cold day and it is delicious. The recipe is on the internet as my wife found it and makes the dish now and then. Delicious and the heat content depends on what green chile you use.

O&S you ever eat at Leals?

[ironglow]

Some restaurants have been founded on an old "Mom's recipe" at the start.  If they keep that recipe and add only genuine 'down home' type recipes, they can often keep a winner going.

   Once, while travelling south, we stopped by to see our Grandson's wife, while he was deployed in Iraq.

  As I recall, it was at Jacksonville, NC near Camp Lejeune. . When dinner time came, I let her pick out a 'down home' type restaurant. When she announced that we would visit a black owned and operated establishment, I thought.."OK, what's the game?".

  Knowing they as we, eschewed drinking establishments, and were of the same mind as we...we knew it would be no "dive".

  WE drove through some side streets, to find a neat little place.  Going in..first thing I noticed a troop of small waitresses..in black silk , short dresses..with nice little white aprons and caps..all very polite!

   The menu, ethnic of course....and I had to ask about each.  I settled on something called "neck bones", thinking,
  "what can be done with neck bones"?
   Surprise for me... THe bones came with it, but the meat was falling off those bones..and sooo GOOD !

    ..But then stop to think..for so long, those folks got only the leftovers from butchering, and after generations of practice, probably came up with some ingenious recipes. Their tip was commensurate...

[Bob Riebe]

I.G. you've been eating "English" food, as the Amish would say, too long.
Neck bones, tail bones etc. I grew up with; my Mother thrived on those pieces and when she was done it looked like a dog had been chewing on it all day, clean as a dry bone.

For soups we always simmered the  the bones till the meat literally fell off; with sauerkraut you would have to pick the bones out of the pot, or your plate.
Flavour is IN dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

[ironglow]

Yes, I guess I am growing too old.  I lived *m/y first few years in what would be called extreme poverty today.

  I can recall now, those neck bones, not just the bones, but in sauerkraut.. Mom & Dad used to run cabbage through the wood framed slicer, dropping the shreds right into the crock.  Take it to the cellar, add salt, water, grape leaves, towel..large, flat dinner plate with a rock on top..then wait ..

  DANG !!  ...you are sure stirring up old memories !

[oldandslow]

The chief cook and bottle washer never uses refried beans in any of her meals so I can comment on the canned variety's qualitys. We do eat quite a few pintos though but not squawshed. She does a killer flat enchilada and it gets whole beans. I have never heard anyone complain about it either.

IG, I wish you could eat at Rosa's. They have the best refries going. My wife and I have a date to go there next Tuesday. She loves their tacos and they have Taco Tuesday every week. They are half priced that day. Really good eating at a really good price.

  Interesting turn your Mrs. does with the pinto beans.  Where is Rosa's located?  Perhaps I can at least get a look at the place on Google street level.

  Hey..I did a Google search and found this..is it possible?

That looks like most of them. Some of the older one's look a little different. It's a West Texas chain that snuck one across the border into Hobbs, NM. They have a green chile stew that will rally warm you up on a cold day and it is delicious. The recipe is on the internet as my wife found it and makes the dish now and then. Delicious and the heat content depends on what green chile you use.

O&S you ever eat at Leals?

Sure have but not in a long time as there are none very close to me. The last I can think of was in Clovis years ago when my wife was bowling and I accompanied her to a tournament there. Pretty good Tex-Mex if I remember correctly.

[Dee]

One of the best tex-mex restaurants ever. Haven't been there in a while either.

[ironglow]

One of the best tex-mex restaurants ever. Haven't been there in a while either.

  "Tex-Mex"..is that a blend of traditional Texas recipes, mixed with the best from Mexico? Help this northern resident out...

[Bob Riebe]

Affirmativ, more or less.

[phalanx]

Our youngest daughter loves to make refried bean and cheese burritos. For dinner.

[ulav8r]

Half the world lives on beans and rice

Years back I would go into a Mexican restaurant  and naturally you got rice and beans as part of a plate.
Back then I had zero love for re-fried beans but once, when I thought it is wasteful to not eat the beans, I mixed it with the rice and was not bad at all.
Quality of rice and beans counts.  Yet now I actually like it and will eat the other halfs if she does not.

I have never bought a can of re-fried beans but that may change.

Mixing the beans in keeps the rice from falling off the fork as easily.  And yes, they do taste better mixed.


P.S.  I think , among other things, Tex-Mex uses much more meat and cheese than traditional Mexican cuisine.

[Ranger99]

The aldi's canned refries traditional
are pretty good. I prefer to make my
own mex rice