OBJ
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She herself and Me was up early this morning to do some more work on the house. I said, "why don't I make up a mess of beans for supper and just let them cook all day?" She said great, get to it. Again, the beans were a total success. The kids got wind of it (literally) and showed up at supper time. Nothin left but an empty crock pot. Got plenty of good kudos from the family and I thought, well, knowing there may be some bean lovers out there, why don't I jist post my recipe and share....so....here's my recipe guaranted to keep the house full of odiferous odors for at least two days.<br /><br />I don't use any magic or voodoo. Just what looks good. I dump about 2lb of beans in the crock. Dice up a goodly protion of ham and throw that in.<br /><br />Then I dice up about five strips of bacon and fry them till crisp and dump out most all the grease. Into the skillet goes a good size diced onion. My formula for onions is, 1lb beans a good size onion, 2lb beans a little larger size onion and so on. <br /><br />I think the word they use is saulty (?). Well, just throw the onions in on top of the bacon and let them cook for a few minutes or until your eyes are about ready to fall out. I take the mix and dump it on paper towels to get rid of any extra bacon grease and then dump this bacon/onion mix into the crock. Throw in some salt and pepper and let her cook.<br /><br />Now when the soup gets a little thick and near servin time, I drop in some thumbnail size dumplings and let the whole thing cook for another 1/2 hour or so.<br /><br />You can also throw in some veggies like celery diced up or carrots is good to. <br /><br />Serve it up and watch the faces of folks that like beans. Sliced up raw onions on the side and fried taters round out the meal. And if ya want to get fancy, make a couple skillets of corn bread with fresh country butter.<br /><br />Dang.........gettin hungry again. 
