Damsel in dis Dress wrote:


> Neither Crash nor I have ever tried it, but we bought a bag of the dried
> beans with powdered ham stuff last night. You add canned tomatoes, chili
> powder, lemon juice, onions and garlic. Is this stuff good as-is, or
> should we be adding some other seasonings (I assume that a bay leaf is in
> order)? This is a 20-ounce bag. We'd better like this stuff!
>

carol, any sort of smoked pork will go great with the beans. bacon, smoked
ham hocks and if you can get a country ham bone you'll be in heaven! onions
also work really well. i never use any of the packet thingies that come in
the bean packaging. they just cheapen the taste imo. i was lucky enough to
cook a country ham last saturday and saved the bones for beans. i now have
about a gallon of the best pinto beans i've ever made thanks to that ham
bone!