"aem" > wrote in message
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On Mar 1, 6:53 pm, "King's Crown" > wrote:
> As I said they tasted kind of bland to me, which surprised me having a
> pound
> of linguiça in it. Not to mention the half pound of bacon. But DH said
> they were just like Mom and Grandma use to make and he loved them. Lynne
>[snip]

Well if he loved them, fine, but the recipe seems a little off to me.
The specified 4 cups of water isn't even enough to cover a pound of
soaked beans, to start with; frying the bacon crisp is unusual in this
kind of dish and loses the flavor from the fat; and personally I'd
find that much tomato paste to be overpowering but that's just my
taste. -aem

I worried about the water too and kept a close eye on it and it actually
worked out fine. All the fat from the bacon went into browning up the
onions, so it was there. I also wondered if it was the tomato paste that
threw me off as well. Normally, I'd put a tablespoon or 2 in a recipe like
this. It might be just something I make special for DH once a year to bring
back fond childhood memories of his mother's and grandmother's cooking.
I'll smear a little around on my plate and pretend to enjoy it. One day out
of a year ... I won't starve.

Lynne