White beans is a horse of a different color. We'd normally do that once or twice a year during winter with ham in it. Cornbread goes great with it. I'm talking about pintos mostly. That's what we ate mostly and white bread soaks up the salty pork flavor of the bean soup perfect.
We did white beans 10:1 over pintos growing up in my house. Once a week. Grandparents were the opposite - so that’s usually where I’d get my pintos. Cornbread with both though. I could see pintos and white bread. I couldn’t imagine white beans without cornbread. Or life without the combo.
I’m not gonna pretend I grew up somewhere other than suburban Knoxville but I’m glad I came from redneck stock. Country food> all the other shit
I guess it depends on the cook. Funny how I’m able to enjoy such delicious nostalgia in the present tense about once a week.
It is good. Too good. Haha. You guys are making me nostalgic. Here is where I grew up. Right at the fork in the roads. Clearing in the upper left is my grandma and grandpas place. Just to the left of that is a little house that was my aunts. Clearing tonteh lower left was my grandpas uncles place. A little log cabin in the very bottom left. House above that is his son’s - my grandpa’s cousin. Theres a little knoll between (and a little two the left) of those two big clearings. There’s a cemetery on it. My third great grandfather is buried there.
Slick Pig is good. Pretty cheap too. The pulled pork was a lot better than the brisket I tried. I’ve heard of Jeff’s but haven’t tried it yet.
Mediocre pulled pork beats average brisket every day of the weak. Great brisket dunks on the rest. But I’ll take great brisket, pulled pork (or ribs), and a sausage trio for the win. With white bread. And pickles.
God’s country. If I had unlimited resources the very first thing I’d do is buy the farm I grew up hunting in Overton county. Paradise.
All this talk about beans and cornbread makes me want to drive to Greeneville to eat at the Bean Barn.
