Pinto Bean Recipe and Corn Bread

 

Oh Yeah, Now this is about as southern as it gets :)

Pinto Bean Recipe

Here are cooking instruction for preparing a tasty pot of beans:

 Start with a small bag of beans, about 1 pound. This should produce about 5-6 cups of cooked beans.

Sorting and rinsing your beans is very simple. Sort through your beans removing any defective beans or small stones that may be present. Place the beans in a colander and rinse several times.

  For overnight soaking just cover beans with 3 inches of cold water and place in the refrigerator

 

 After the beans have soaked overnight or for 1-4 hours discard the water. Replace discarded water with fresh water. Replace beans in pot and cover with two inches of water. Bring beans to boil, replace lid and reduce heat to simmer. Simmer for 4 hours, checking beans frequently to ensure beans have enough water. Add water if necessary.

Fry some bacon ( about 5 slices ), or add ham hocks OR you can add a package of pork chops.. 1 or 2 jalapeno's and salt and pepper to taste.

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There is nothing better then a good pot of Pinto Beans with a pan of Cornbread !

That was a meal in itself. Mom would cook her beans make cornbread and fry potatoes, and that was it.. Simple but oh so good..

Corn Bread Recipe

1-1/2 – cups yellow corn meal
1-1/2 – cups general all purpose flour
4 – tablespoons baking powder
2 – tablespoons sugar
1 – tablespoon salt
1-1/2 – cups milk
2 – eggs
2 – tablespoons vegetable oil

You can start off by greasing your cast iron skillet with a little vegetable oil. Set the oven to 425 degrees and heat your skillet. If you don't have the cast iron skillet go head and use a  baking pan.

Blend corn meal, flour, baking powered and sugar in a mixing bowl. In another bowl Wisk together your milk, eggs and melted butter. Make the corn bread batter by mixing your dry and wet ingredients together thoroughly.

Next using oven mittens, carefully remove the cast iron skillet from the oven. Using a kitchen basting brush or whatever you have available coat the inside of your skillet with vegetable oil.

Pour batter into the skillet and return to oven. Bake for about half an hour or until a wooden tooth pick inserted in the center comes out clean. The finished product will be golden brown.