Over the summer me and Junior cooked outside on a camping stove.
A simple single ring with a gas canister below. You know the kind, Action Man's Explorer had one!
We ate beans. Baked beans. I had pepper on mine too. Black pepper.
We had metal plates too like cowboys, scooping up the beans noisily and clattering the spoons down into the empty plates at the end!
All that was missing was steaming black coffee in tin cups from a blue enamelled pot!
Cooking beans reminded me so much of doing the same as a kid, emulating my cowboy hero shows like Bonanza and High Chaparral.
Did you ever eat cowboy beans from a metal plate or even cold straight from the can?
Many times whilst camping in The Lakes, with my family, as a kid, and on metal plates too !
ReplyDeleteYay! Way to go Mish! I loved the Lakes when I was a teenager. Lived down the road in Preston.
DeleteI do beans according to season( and mood)During the colder months,I bake them in brown sugar and onions, maybe a little mace or cloves.Good with baked ham or on its own with buttered Whole wheat bread.Warmer weather,I like them with bacon ,cumin,garlic,and mild green chili peppers.Theyre good with Corn Bread and cheddar cheese. I have been lately cooking the dried beans in a pressure cooker and saucing them later
ReplyDeleteBrian, you really should be running a cafe or a restaurant! Your culinary talents never cease to amaze me! If I lived nearby you'd never get rid if me! ha ha. I'd bring beer!
DeleteI was a short order cook in my late teens- early twenties.Did I ever tell you that?But I got a chance to get paid good wages + benefits while learning the sheet metal trade and it was too good to pass up.After I retire, I might try to find a local hole- in - the- wall restaurant and sling Hash and Eggs a few days a week.I also hope to play in a rock band again.We will see,I guess!
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