But when I think about beanie weanies, I think about Campbell's baked beans - Which are gross, somehow too sweet and too salty at the same time.
My picnic beans recipe?
Black and pinto beans with pork and Chilis:
1 large white onion - rough diced
1 or 2 Jalapenos (depending on their heat and your tolerance) seeded and diced
1 large Poblano pepper seeded and diced
I large clove of Garlic smashed into paste
1 pound smoked hocks
8 ounces thick cut smoked bacon
1 pound dry black beans
1 pound dry pintos
1 12 ounce bag of pigeon peas - If you can't find these up the quantity of pintos
Mollases
honey
Yellow mustard - to taste
1 cup Heinz Ketchup - I am from Pittsburgh, so it MUST BE HEINZ KETCHUP. If you use anything called Catsup, I will find you...
salt and pepper
Mix and soak the beans over night in lightly salted water, replace with unsalted water before boiling with the hocks.
Boil the beans and hocks with just enough liquid to come to a thick consistency - start with water 1 inch higher than the beans and add water as it reduces - you do not want the beans soupy
When the beans are almost done get the rest working - usually 3.5-4 hours
In a heavy stock pot or Dutch oven brown bacon and remove
Using the rendered bacon fat sweat the onions for 5 or 6 minutes
After the onions are soft and translucent add the chilies and garlic
Salt and pepper lightly, reduce heat and cover - and then head back to the beans
If you haven't done so yet, turn off the burner on the bean pot
Remove the hocks and as soon as they are touchable break them suckers down for cleaning (Removing the bones and gristle)
Chop the remaining meat and skin roughly and put in the pot with the veg
Pour the mostly cooked beans in that pot
Add all the bacon that survived your nibbling since you started cooking the onions
Add the molasses and honey - the amount depends on your sweet tooth, but use 2 molasses to 1 honey - and remember a cup of ketchup is coming up and that is like a tablespoon of sugar
stir and allow to incorporate - 20 minutes or so over low heat
Put in the ketchup - start with 3/4 cup
Add mustard - One long squeeze or table spoon at a time
mix and taste as you go - add ketchup and mustard a bit at a time until it seems right to you
salt and pepper to taste
Cover and store in the oven on it's lowest heat setting until ... well until you wanna eat 'em
I know that this seems like a lot of work, but it really isn't so bad and you'll be a hero - saving your kin and friends from Campbell's beans
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