Old Meathead still sends out some good stuff. Will try this when next doing a pork butt.

https://amazingribs.com/tested...tt-takes-chili-verde

Looks like a real winner.

Hold the sour cream and don't refer it as Mex-Am Food. It was starting to sound a little too Californian. The reference to black beans tells me all I need to know. If they don't like pintos, send them back home.

I gathered raw materials today. I will have to rely on my smoke tube on the Weber gasser to get some flavor into that butt.

Ken,we do like our pintos.

A helpful addendum. I might have mentioned this before,but when cooking pintos they sometimes are too crunchy instead of how they are supposed to be.Two problems here. Old age of beans or too alkaline tap water from the source..Same solution to both.Use distilled water.It works + as Bill can attest,my beans are to die for.

They are indeed, Randy.
And a pinch of baking soda in the soak water kills the "raffinose" sugars that cause, um, issues ...

Have my beans soaking and just blistered the Anaheims and Poblanos.

True,my mom taught me growing up how to cook (I got better on my own) but that side line of the baking soda in the night before I am well aware ove.I remember it quite well as when I was in the Scouts + taking "Boys Life" there was an add that said if you could send in an item of interest concerning scouting it would be $10.00.Being a kid,ten bucks was big money. I never got paid for (my) idea BTW,but I do remember those nights around the campfire when all of us Boy Scouts were farting like wild men.Strange maybe that these memories are so precious.

This dish is just really marvelous. Well worth the effort and a keeper recipe for sure.

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
They are indeed, Randy.
And a pinch of baking soda in the soak water kills the "raffinose" sugars that cause, um, issues ...

first of all, them "issues" are half the fun. "beans beans the musical fruit"
second , its alot easier to accomplish this if u desire to spoil the fun by just lying a wooden spoon in the pot of cooking beans, top to bottom. when the temp gets too high the little farts just run up the spoon and jump off!

I'm still having trouble understanding how a guy from Oregon has become so acclimated to New Mexico and everything New Mexican so fast. You are definitely hitting on all cylinders.

from Blazing saddles in the campfire scene. Somebody that knows how pull it up. " More beans Mr, Taggert?" No, I'd say you boys have had enough!

Beans that do not produce/induce farts are not worth cooking or eating

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Originally posted by craigster:
Beans that do not produce/induce farts are not worth cooking or eating

Never were words so true before spoken.

Ken, having nearly a dozen ancestors in the cemetery right here in Alamogordo -- and two canyons in the Sacramento Mountains named for them -- must have something to do with it. I have said it before, but New Mexico bit me hard when I was 15 and a Boy Scout seeing Philmont for the first time. That was 1968.

Young whipper, snapper.

I know, I know. You kids today! When I was growing up all we had to eat was rocks, + damned glad to get em.

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I have said it before, but New Mexico bit me hard when I was 15 and a Boy Scout seeing Philmont for the first time. That was 1968.

Yep. I know what you mean. Twice to Philmont. It gets in your blood.

Scouts in my youth w3ere a good thing. In my case in the mid-60s in Norfolk Va, our scoutmasters were retired or still active duty naval officers that understood REAL things to teach the kids. Knowledge of knots, semaphore, + too many more to mention. These guys were planting the seed of the troops of tomorrow. The scouts today are a bad joke. My boys weren't interested when they saw what it had become + neither were I. Mores the pity. I recall some idiot talking head recently saying that the Boy Scouts were NOT to be a training ground for the military. What an idiot. That was EXACTLY what Badden Powell had in mind; + before the pussification of the current "powers that be" we would still have a viable system of young men who did honestly believe in "God + Country".

Really to bad that there is NO way for anyone to create something today.
All would have to suffer the PC claptrap of today and could be no better
Tolerance only runs one way it seems.

Yeah, the property tax assessor is a one-way street as well. Some idiot down the road paid 18K per acre so the county said that it was all worth 18K an acre. Another neighbor just bought some land on the other side + paid 5600 an acre. So I went to the county + said that by your own rationale that means that the land is worth 5600 an acre. OH NO!! It doesn't work that way. It only applies when in their favor.

Use Enough Gun: I have been blessed to be back to Philmont a couple of times, sharing it with my daughter and my late father. We mostly just drove around -- down to Rayado -- but also spent time at the sacred heart of the ranch -- The Ernest Thompson Seton museum.
Seton of course had in mind a more spiritual model for Scouting based heavily on the Native Americans' view of the natural world, but lost out to Baden-Powell's British military model. I am not sure Scouting was the better for it.

Bill, I've got the collected works of Seton. Good reading from another time. You don't see them much anymore.