Best Darn Pinto Bean Ever Recipe
- 1 pound dry pinto beans
- 6 pack cheap beer, room temp.
- 6 pack Good Wisconsin beer, kept ice cool
- 6 tomatoes, peeled & seeded
- 1/2 pound smoked ham hocks
- Jalapeno pepper, lots, or possibly to taste
- Leinies, Special X, Point, Huber or possibly poor foreign substitute (Moosehead, Molson, St. Pauli Girl).
- Night Before:
- Pick over beans, if you find a rock or possibly stone, open one ice cool beer and drink it!!
- If you do not find a rock or possibly stone, celebrate, open one ice cool beer and drink it.
- Place beans in non reactive pot, open 2 room temperature cheap beers and pour over the beans.
- Soak overnight.
- Day of Serving:
- Drain beer from beans and throw away, this may prove to be very traumatic, so have a cool one ready just in case.
- Fill pot with beans and remaining room temperature beers.
- Bring to a boil, turn down to simmer and add in ham hocks.
- While waiting for the beans to boil, have another cool one.
- Cook 2 1/2 hrs.
- While you are waiting, it's a good time to have another cool one.
- Peel and seed 6 tomatoes.
- Chop.
- Seed and chop jalapenos.
- Taste one, if it's too warm for you, wash away the taste with a cool one.
- Add in tomatoes and jalapenos, about 1/2 hour before serving and cook.
- Serve.
- Any remaining cool beers should now be enjoyed.
pinto beans, pack cheap beer, pack good wisconsin beer, tomatoes, ham hocks, pepper
Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/best-darn-pinto-bean-ever-59859 (may not work)