I was raised on beans and corn bread...but somehow, managed to raise two boys of my own who DON'T like beans!!! No point in making a big pot just for myself, so I have to go out to a good country buffet to have a bowl! :( While other folks are loading up on the fried chicken, I'm having beans and cornbread...LOL! On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Joyce & Tom <jthawkin@pacbell.net> wrote: > We are the bean capital of CA, we have a dried Bean Festival every August, > ever try bean ice cream, bean pizza? LOL The best meal is beans and > corn-pone baked in a cast iron skillet. Joyce in CA > > -----Original Message----- > From: vafloyd-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:vafloyd-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On > Behalf Of Carolyn Bruce > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 7:15 AM > To: vafloyd@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] beans > > Jerry, > In my experience, pintos are brown and octobers are speckled, two > different beans. My mother used to mix the speckled octobers in with a > pot of half runners (a green or "snap" bean), cook them with "fat back" > and serve them with chopped onions and cornbread and butter... talk > about good eatin'! O'course, pintos, cooked and served the same way, are > my favorites. Sometimes I'd take the pintos with plenty of the soup and > crumble the cornbread up in them, sprinkle 'em heaviliy with chopped > onions... m-m-good! On the side put a serving of kale, boiled 'til > tender, drained and fried in fat back grease, sprinkle with a little > vinegar... oh boy! Mother would serve it on a platter decorated with the > strips of fat back (salt pork) and slices of hard boiled egg... made a > pretty dish. Are you hungry, yet? > > I understand that served together, cornbread and beans have amino acids > equal to those of meat. True? > > Carolyn HALE BRUCE > Virginia Beach, VA > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >