Baked Beans

[bunyip]

I have tried so many recipes and just can't seem to get it right, the beans just lack any flavour when I do it, I just resort to a chickpea stew with a light curry but the side effects are lethal, especially when you share the same bed.

 

[Molalla1]

I have tried so many recipes and just can't seem to get it right, the beans just lack any flavour when I do it, I just resort to a chickpea stew with a light curry but the side effects are lethal, especially when you share the same bed.

Soak your beans overnight, some salt/seasoning? . . . fatback . . .:licking:

 

[3Ts]

I have a recipe for my grandmothers BB's, nobody, not even my sainted mother could replicate it . . . to this day I cannot either . . . with instructions like a pinch of this and a drizzle of that . . . and if after adding some other ingredients it taste like this to add some more of this or that . . . they were the greatest BB's I have ever ate.

I have a recipe from my grandmother that was out of this world. Nobody in the family has been able to duplicate it even with 1/2 cup this, 1 Tsp of that etc., we think she left out an ingredient or two and we've essentially given up. However, my wife and I have been watching cooking shows and I think we might have discovered the missing ingredient. I'll have to try again and see.

One menu item that we had as a kid was Ham Hocks and Beans. Always made with navy beans - other than red kidney beans for chili, I never knew there was any other kind of bean. I got introduced to these funny looking beans they called pinto beans a few years ago. What a difference! We've replaced every single navy bean in the house, and have since discovered many other types of beans. We're into experimenting now.

 

[dragoneggs]

I have a recipe for my grandmothers BB's, nobody, not even my sainted mother could replicate it . . . to this day I cannot either . . . with instructions like a pinch of this and a drizzle of that . . . and if after adding some other ingredients it taste like this to add some more of this or that :confused2: . . . they were the greatest BB's I have ever ate.

I missed out of having grandmothers around for that incredible cooking. Honestly my mom wasn't a great cook. Nor my first wife. However, my second wife and last one is an incredible self taught chef. She denies it but everyone that has tried her cooking, sauces, asian fusion style... I can go on. Tonight we are having black cod. Not really a cod but a very oily sablefish or butterfish. With a marinade. I just put it on the Traeger for a little smoke.

Oops... back to the baked beans. That is the one dish she doesn't do very often at all, I think because we are both a little noisy afterward. Doesn't bother me... I say it is a sign of good cooking. :licking: She is a little shy that way. :ashamed:

 

[ray66v]

I cook my baked beans in my smoker.

I put them in at 11 pm, and leave them smoke until the next morning.

 

[Molalla1]

I missed out of having grandmothers around for that incredible cooking. Honestly my mom wasn't a great cook. Nor my first wife. However, my second wife and last one is an incredible self taught chef. She denies it but everyone that has tried her cooking, sauces, asian fusion style... I can go on. Tonight we are having black cod. Not really a cod but a very oily sablefish or butterfish. With a marinade. I just put it on the Traeger for a little smoke.

Oops... back to the baked beans. That is the one dish she doesn't do very often at all, I think because we are both a little noisy afterward. Doesn't bother me... I say it is a sign of good cooking. :licking: She is a little shy that way. :ashamed:

Yep, that incredible cooking came from a wood fired cook stove . . . she "grandma" was born in the late 1800's

 

[hawkeye08]

Many of our friends and family have complemented my wife on her spaghetti sauce... she uses store bought and adds a couple of ingredients to it (like some brown sugar).. she can cook the base also, but it is quicker to start with store bought.

Our middle daughter learned how to make biscuits from scratch and has them down to perfection. A friend came over with her Mom and our daughter made the biscuits for dinner. The Mom insisted on the recipe before she left.. a month or two later, we heard that the Mom had made some hockey pucks.

 

[downsizingnow48]

The missing ingredient could be the bean itself. Commercial dried beans in the chain grocery stores can be too old - dry and tasteless. Might try beans from local ethnic groceries or speciality suppliers just to see if that makes a difference.

 

[dragoneggs]

The missing ingredient could be the bean itself. Commercial dried beans in the chain grocery stores can be too old - dry and tasteless. Might try beans from local ethnic groceries or speciality suppliers just to see if that makes a difference.

Good advice!

 

[Molalla1]

I missed out of having grandmothers around for that incredible cooking. Honestly my mom wasn't a great cook. Nor my first wife. However, my second wife and last one is an incredible self taught chef. She denies it but everyone that has tried her cooking, sauces, asian fusion style... I can go on. Tonight we are having black cod. Not really a cod but a very oily sablefish or butterfish. With a marinade. I just put it on the Traeger for a little smoke.

Oops... back to the baked beans. That is the one dish she doesn't do very often at all, I think because we are both a little noisy afterward. Doesn't bother me... I say it is a sign of good cooking. :licking: She is a little shy that way. :ashamed:

I was raised by my GM, early on during WW2 . . . dad was overseas and mom was working for the shipyards . . . d@mn that woman could cook my, GM . . . I was very young back then but can still remember how good it was then.