Had 15 bean soup last night. Tonight is chili with beans , fresh homemade bread with peanut butter on it.
had beans w/ salt pork & corn bread for lunch. it was good, but not as good as the beans my folks used to make when they had their barbque shack. they'd put left over brisket from the day before in em. they were mighty good, but still not as good as JL's beans. there is no beans good as JL's beans.
But it has to be sweet cornbread or it aint cornbread.
Nuthin like a good hot steamin bowl of brown beans, fried taterins, coleslaw and a big peace of white cornbread. I put in one hot chile per cup of beans to heat them up. Yum ohh, don't get to have this much anymore trying to eat right these days.
Beans and cornbread saved my life many times!
So who else has a pot of beans cooking today? Instead of a ham hock, I put in 2lbs of pulled pork.
Damn you! Now I gots to have me some dang beans in a bad way! Waanna try sumthin' different but really good? Try sliced up hot links rather than ham or pork or whatever. UUMMMMM, UUMMMMM!
(And yeah, I like Jiffy too!)
Once when I was low on funds I needed some meat to put in a pot of beans. I found a jar of redhots, like the ones you used to get in bars. I slice em up, cooked them in the beans. When it was done the hotlinks tasted just like they did when fresh out of the jar. Practically ruined the beans.
That would be a yes. Big chunks of thick fresh side bacon. Wife can't stand the smell so this is a twice a year meal
(the smell of the beans cooking) 
When I was going to school, beans and cornbread was one of my staples. The Skaggs/Albertson's around the corner used to sell marked down ham. They would basically cut it up into chunks and sell it for $1 per pound. Add a few boxes of Jiffy cornbread and I swear I could eat all week on only $5.
