new to cooking beans, how do you make these bastards taste good?

I thin you should try and adapt.

It's in your future.

Add carrot and celery ...

Quick easy, inexpensive and tasty.

Add a cup of your fav salsa and 1lb of smoked sausage, cut into thin slices and 1 beef bullion cube to a medium size crock pot. Cook until the beans are as tender as you like and bob is your uncle.

You can do this with any sauce/meat mix. We have tried italian sausage with a tomato sauce base, beef tips with mushroom soup as a base...you can add just about anything.

If you like a thicker sauce add a bit of cornstarch to the soupy mix and pair with some type of bread. Makes for awesome leftovers and its always filling.

if you want red sauce you go to the italians...

if you want beans you go to the ricans.

Moro's y cristianos are awesome.

Btw, op, make a sofrito, with a little olive oil, sason, onion, some cut up pork fat, salt, pepper to taste. A little tomato paste. Add beans and water.
Delicious.

Frankly, i can hardly gag down beans in a soup. I decided to mash some white beans and used this recipe. It was delicious! Use whatever ingredients you have on hand and you don't need any expensive meats & vegetables. Add a bay leaf as they cook to get rid of the gas.

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Kombu and back bacon.

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taste good? Add a bunch of sugar.

Hispanics make lots of beans. One of our favorites is ketchup beans.

usually with pinto beans but any kind works.
Goya recaito 1T
Goya sofrito 2T
Sazon (any flavor) 1 packet
chicken bullion 1 cube
minced garlic 1 tsp.
cook 20-30 minutes, to boil (stirring) then simmer
add ketchup to taste

can serve with rice.

I think I remembered everything. Smells great cooking.

Dry beans soak over night or this will happen, bean beans the musicale fruit the more you eat the more you toot!

lucky me, I like rice and beans.

Cook some baby limas with some bacon or ham and salt and pepper.

I don't have much to add except that after soaking them, remove any "floaters" as those went bad and you don't want to eat them.

Put some molasses in there.

But seriously, a good bowl of red beans and rice spiced correctly is hard to beat.

Make homemade navy bean soup or pinto bean soup

Bean soup with cornbread is delicious and very nutritious.

Recipe for making Navy Bean Soup or Pinto Bean Soup

Wash a 16 oz package of dried beans

Remove any stones that are in the package of beans

Soak beans in a large bowl of water overnight

Pour off the water and rinse the beans in the morning

Boil beans with a pinch of salt in 2 quarts of water over medium heat for 2 hours

Add 2 cans of broth (chicken for navy bean soup and beef broth for pinto bean soup and vegetable broth for vegetarians)

Add 1 tablespoon of butter and half of a cup of milk (both of these ingredients are optional but recommended)

Add 1 medium-to-large yellow onion finely diced

Add 3 stalks of celery finely diced

Add seasoning salt (like Lawry's) to taste

Reduce heat and simmer over low heat for 1 hour

Serve soup with cornbread with butter and honey

Extra soup can be cooled in jars and refrigerated or frozen in zip lock bags or Tupperware containers.

One pot of soup will yield 12 bowls of soup.

So one pot of soup can feed 4 people 3 meals each.

The soup can be made in a crock pot with everything added at once and the soup will be waiting for you when you get home from work.

A couple of weeks ago I ate two big bowls of baby lima beans. Really good beans. About 4-5 hours later I started farting for about 3-4 hours non stop. I thought I was going to die.

Another tip, there's no beans like double soaked (two night soak) beans. Less gas too.

I'm going to get some kombu and bacon from this oriental market and try it out. Seriously. Sounds good.

That's why you add Kombu

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To further reduce the gas-producing properties of beans, add a large strip of dried kombu seaweed to the pot of beans and water prior to boiling. Remove the kombu once cooking is finished. You can find kombu in your local natural foods store or in ethnic markets. Adding a slice or two of ginger or some fennel or cumin seeds can also help. Additionally, skimming and discarding the foam during boiling is also an effective means of gas reduction

Buy some Tony Chachere's and add that to Your beans. I remember as a little kid when driving from TX to TN my Mother always made it a point to buy Tony's on the way through LA. I seriously think its by far the best Cajun seasoning. While You are at it get some Louisiana Red hot its by far better then Tabasco which tastes like shit.

I would substitute tomato paste in place of ketchup adding water:.

Black pepper is also a must have.

Im beginning to believe goya sazon is better than badia. It costs more but tastes better.

Wanna put it over the moon?

Dump in a can of vigo calamares or pulpo while its cooking.

I bless my food only after and if I can poop it out in a healthy way. Seriously. I literally thank God and Jesus. "Thank You Jesus, Thank You Lord".

I'm not going to bless the food if I'm eating at McDonald's. I'm going to curse it going in and going out.

Why should you bless food? You've already worked for it.

You should also run 20 red lights in his honor...

Lol...that did not go unnoticed.

I like them in soups the best.

I have to second ham hocks, especially if they're smoked. Not gonna lie...the first time I used them I was a little weirded out, but they're fabulous.

In the south, the key is to cook them for a long time.

Oh and add fat back.