making crock pot Charro Beans today because I cooked bacon for b-fast

[irisblue]

source-https://houseofyumm.com/slow-cooker-charro-beans/

( site has stove top instructions & how to do with canned beans)

-INGREDIENTS
1 pound pinto beans, dried
6 cups water, enough to cover the beans in a large bowl
4 slices bacon, sliced
1/2 yellow onion , diced
1 jalapeno, seeded and diced
2 cloves garlic , minced
4 cups broth, chicken or vegetable, low sodium-I use a bit less broth)
2 cups water
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon ground cumin
¼ teaspoon dried oregano

HOW TO MAKE CHARRO BEANS IN THE SLOW COOKER
Rinse the pinto beans in cold water, drain off any water. Add the pinto beans and 8 cups of water to a slow cooker and cook on high for about 2 hours.

In a medium size pan cook the bacon over medium heat. Once the bacon is cooked, remove and chop.
Add the onion and diced jalapeño and saute in the bacon grease for about 5 minutes until the onion is translucent and the jalapeño softened. Add the garlic and cook for another 30 seconds.
Add the onion, garlic and chopped bacon to the beans in the slow cooker.
Cook beans for an additional 2 hours on high.
Season with salt, cumin, and oregano. Cook for an additional 30 minutes on low.

I plan on mashing half of the cooked beans for molletes (like this...https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/255900/traditional-mexican-molletes/) for later this week for a breakfast or lunch.

[Kali]

1. this time of year crappy unripe tomatoes are perfect to chop and throw in there too

maybe just one for a lb of dry beans. (I never make such a small amount of beans LOL)

[irisblue]

2. thx for the idea, I have some poor quality cherry tomatoes I can add

[Retrograde]

4. This time of year, I used canned tomatoes

for most things: I'm so spoiled by the tomatoes I grow and the ones I get at the farmers' market that I don't buy them out of season. The canned ones aren't as good as fresh-picked, but they're better than the tastelss, hard, pink spheres stores sell in winter, and they're perfectly good for cooking. The last ones I bought in a regular grocery store had sprouted seeds inside them - first time I've ever seen that happen!

Around September in California's Central Valley you can see huge trucks full of tomatoes on their way to wherever: they have to be tough to hold up to this kind of treatment.

[Kali]

5. For some recipes

Fresh greenish tomatoes are better than canned for this, other recipes canned are better than even ripe tomatoes. For Charra/o beans, unripe tomatoes sauteed with the other vegetables are just perfect.

[samnsara]

3. drain the beans..heap a big pile in a bowl and top with cottage fries and cooked onions...

...smother in ketchup, serve with corn bread. My Oklahoma grandmas favorite meal! Mine too but i leave out the buttermilk beverage :/