Name the bean

[bakerman]

Since moving away from home I am discovering more beans. Mom always made baked beans, I remember sorting the dry beans as a kid to get out any stones or bad looking beans, she would soak them over night and bake them all day the next day with molasses, mustard, salt pork etc... Great memories of those cooking, it was a sunday tradition for many families in my area of Maine. We would have a Christmas craft fair every year at the Grange Hall across the street from our house my mom would be up all night baking beans and homemade rolls to sell the next day, she would usually sell out in around 20 minutes, she would even get calls from certain people asking her to save them some!

My niece made me one of those soup in a jar kits one christmas, it was full of different kinds of beans and it was soooooo good.

MAC

[Chefnot]

Originally Posted by BerryBaby

Never have beans?! Wow, you can do hundreds of different things with them and they are excellent for you.

Is it just your family, or they don't use them in the part of Ohio you live in. Husband grew up there and they ate beans.

I think it's just my family, never had them growing up either. Course my wife never had them growing up either so I don't know. And we make lots of soups during the winter, but beanless...

[BerryBaby]

Interesting.

[BerryBaby]

When I was a kid, I use to like to eat pork 'n beans right out of the can. My favorite part was that one piece of bacon they'd put in the can. It was fun trying to find it.

I know, but simple things were such a treat back then.

[Sukie]

My family did not make beans very often. The only time I remember having beans was, as Berry said, pork and beans from a can. We ate them with hot dogs and Boston brown bread.
Now I make bean soup and tried Tyler Florences baked bean recipe the other day. It was ok, bacon little soggy. Will try it again though.

[Food Network Fan]

I always make my bacon in the oven then add the grease to baked beans. My husband doesn't like the bacon in the beans as well as he likes them with just the bacon flavor.

My dad gets the beenie weenies in the little pull top cans to take hunting with him.

[Chefnot]

I do have one family tradition here, even though I'm not a fan of them. I eat baked beans once a year, on the Fourth.

[Food Network Fan]

I love baked beans. I like mine fairly sweet, but not too sweet. I have had some that are more like a dessert.

[BerryBaby]

I think I now love the smell of baked beans more than eating them. Makes the house smell delicious!

[ibcheft]

Beans beans the musical fruit the more you eat the more you toot, the more you toot the better you feel, dam lets have beans for every meal. Nothing like a pot of good home made pinto beans, with bacon to flavor them and simmer all day on the stove just keep adding water to keep em covered, then dish you a bowl full with some Tabasco and a fry pan full of corn bread.