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If the mention of “Pork & Beans” stirs up a picture in your head like the one above, you might be ready to move on to the wonderful “Pork & Beans” I’d like to introduce to you today.
Admittedly, there were times when during my (much) younger years, after a night of too much booze and too many other spoils of the wild life, many times the final straw was a cold can of baked beans, straight off the cupboard and out of the can, washed down with the last couple of beers of the day. Ahhhh, the sophistication of youth. 🙂
Nowadays, at least for myself, enjoying pork and beans requires slightly more effort, better quality ingredients, and flavor and texture more geared towards grown-ups. The reward is a dish I always and often enjoy to the fullest, any time of the day, either as a snack, appetizer or outsized main course 🙂
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Preparation :
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- 2 lbs pork ribs or belly
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- simmer pork with 2 ea scallions,1 peeled onion, 1 tblsp garlic paste, 1 tblsp tomato paste and kosher salt and cayenne pepper to taste
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- simmer pork until very tender, but not falling apart There should be about 1 qt stock remaining, if not, adjust
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- remove pork to a cutting board, remove and discard bones, cut into bite size pieces
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- add 1 lb smoked pork sausage, cut into cubes
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- add 1 ea 12 oz can of cooked, rinsed, drained white beans
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- blend until smooth
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- add 1 can each rinsed, drained diced tomatoes, 1 ea black beans, one ea white beans, 1 ea red kidney beans and 3 ea sliced scallions
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- simmer for 3 minutes
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- add the pork and sausages, simmer another 3 minutes, check/adjust seasoning
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ChefsOpinion 
YES! That’s more like it!
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Glad you agree, Anneli 🙂
Cheers !
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I *still* eat canned baked beans cold … bit, nowadays, just because I like them 🙂
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If you say so, John 🙂
Cheers !
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This is a particularly interesting recipe for me, Hans, as it is very close to a balkan recipe which I have tried, very successfully. It takes a lot longer than your dish, starting as it does with pork knuckles in cold water. There are fewer varieties of beans, potatoes are included and the dish was created long before the advent of the hand blender – I have to thicken the soup in the old way – but, boy, do they like it when it comes to the table!
Thank you, as always,
Peter
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Peter,
pork. beans and potatoes (and some other goodies thrown in) – any way you prep it, any way you combine it, any way you season it – it’s hard to screw up that combination 🙂
Life is Good !
Cheers !
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P.S.
Here are a few more dishes born of the same mindset 🙂
https://chefsopinion.org/?s=pork+soup
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Gemütlichkeit, Hans – thank you again
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