Tag: pork and beans

Out on the edge! Making pork and beans without a net!

I looked at all the suggestions, recipes, disputes, heresies, prophecies, formalities, familiarities, dissents, allegations, collaborations, corroborations, correspondences, lunacies, revelations, explanations, and Just Plain Wrong arguments — and then I said ‘Let’s go GONZO’ and just started cooking this stuff up.  Somebody had to have made the first pork and bean mixture, after all. I can cook. I understand the principles of cooking. I have to learn to trust my abilities.

…Fortunately, it smells good, so things are probably going well.

Time to talk Pork and Beans.

I got the white beans, I got the salt pork, I got the onions, I got the brown sugar and/or molasses, and I’m pretty sure that I got the tomato paste. What I don’t got is a good recipe. My family was not a beans family.  If we needed some, well, there were plenty of companies making them already.  Shoot, I wouldn’t be doing it now except that we have a bunch of salt pork left over from dinner today and it’s got to go into something.

So, feel free to chime in.  BBQ is always on the agenda, of course. But too-elaborate is probably not the best call, here.