Gonna Be an Interesting Night

[Vaughn McMillan]

Making a pot of 15 Bean Soup for dinner. LOML and I might have to sleep in separate rooms tonight.

 

[Tom Niemi]

Looks good, and the fact that you are 1800 miles away, even better

 

[Darren Wright]

We have a bag of them, and some ham in the freezer, I may have to soak them and make them tomorrow as it's supposed to get cold for a day or two.

 

[Brent Dowell]

Aww yeah. I might have to put a pot of those together this weekend. Thanks for the idea!

 

[Ted Calver]

One of our favorites. Always make a big pot and freeze the left overs. Beano helps, but for some of us flatulence is the only fun left

 

[Vaughn McMillan]

...Beano helps, but for some of us flatulence is the only fun left

One has to their entertainment wherever one can, huh? Fortunately, we have a big dog so blame-shifting is pretty easy. And we have Beano in stock, because the dog gets two of them daily. He can still clear a room in a heartbeat, though.

One old trick to help reduce the gassiness (for pinto beans at least) is to add something carbonated like 7-Up, Club Soda, or Coke as the beans are cooking. I believe baking soda has the same effect. I might try adding something to this batch.

 

[Jonathan Shively]

True story. Our youngest daughter Tess got married in May of 2010 and then our oldest Fina got married in Sept of 2010 on our farm. My dad used to make a MEAN pot of baked beans. They were dangerously delicious yet deadly later on. Josh had not ever had or even known of dad's beans. The kids, Fina and Josh, stayed upstairs in Fina's bedroom that night and in the morning we found out Fina actually had to go to Tess' old bedroom to sleep in comfort and out of the smog!! Fina has kept him on a strict limit whenever dad's beans are on the table!

 

[Paul Douglass]

I love beans,,, I could live on beans and rice.. My wife claimed that if the beans were soaked over night there would be no "fallout" from them... One of the first and probably the only thing I proved her wrong on!

 

[Brent Dowell]

Nothing better than a nice spicy bowl of red beans and rice, with maybe a little sausage.

 

[Mike Stafford]

We haven't made a pot of those in quite a while. Let me tell you, they help contribute to the earth's natural gas supply.

 

[Chuck Ellis]

At my age, I don't even need beans.... may be residue to all the beans and cornbread I at as a child. Was a staple growing up.

 

[Mike Stafford]

Amen, Chuck, Amen! Oh the humanity!

We ate pintos and dried butterbeans at least once a week during the winter months. And always accompanied with cornbread and/or biscuits.

 

[Charles Lent]

Add a cut up potato or two to the bean soup, and it will soak up most of what causes flatulence. Don't eat the potatoes with the soup though, they go in the trash. Anyone who does eat them will need to be roped to keep them in bed.

Charley

 

[Tom Baugues]

Beans beans the musical fruit...the more you eat...the more you toot!

 

[Jonathan Shively]

Beans beans the musical fruit...the more you eat...the more you toot!

The more you toot the better you feel, let's eat beans at every meal!

 

[Vaughn McMillan]

Well, I didn't get any finished pics of the soup in the Crockpot, but I must say it came out great. I added a pound of smoked sausage in big enough pieces that LOML can easily avoid them.

Also added about 2/3 of a can of Coke, which sweetened it up a bit and seems to have de-flatulated the soup. (Let's just say I was no more gassy this morning than I am most other mornings, lol.)

Beans beans the musical fruit...the more you eat...the more you toot!

I hadn't heard that version of the saying until I met my wife. That's the version her dad taught her. I learned the "Beans, beans, are good for your heart" version.

 

[Mike Stafford]

Vaughn, next time try Root Beer and fry up a couple pieces of bacon. Crumble up the bacon and add it to the mix. You won't regret it.

 

[Don Baer]

I make my Navy bean soup in the insta pot takes less yhen an hour. I make a large batch and freeze it for meals later, as a matter of fact I'm having some tonight that I made several weeks ago.

 

[Rennie Heuer]

At my age flatulence comes naturally. No need for dietary stimulation.

 

[Vaughn McMillan]

Vaughn, next time try Root Beer and fry up a couple pieces of bacon. Crumble up the bacon and add it to the mix. You won't regret it.

Sounds good. I've had good results using the bone (or just leftover meat) from smoked spiral cut honey hams. We like the extra sweetness. I even have some honey ham leftovers that I pulled from the freezer a couple of days ago, but I opted to go with sausage this time just to make it easier for my wife to work around the meat parts. She's not a vegetarian, but doesn't like meat very much. She especially doesn't like ham, because she thinks it's "too fatty". This is the same lady who LOVES bacon. Go figure, lol.

When I was a kid we ate a lot of pinto beans. I like adding applesauce or sweet pickle relish to them on my plate. Here again, it's a sweetness thing. We had beans both at home and in the school cafeteria. Growing up in predominantly Hispanic/Catholic Northern NM, the school cafeteria always served fish sticks or beans on Friday. You could get the beans with either red or green chile sauce. And those little lunch ladies made a mean chile sauce. But if they would have offered applesauce, I'd have taken that instead.