One of my favorite meals is at a place called Huck Finn's in Pigeon Forge, TN. I love the "vittles" they bring out to you, served family style all you can eat. White beans, cole slaw, hush puppies, pickles and onions. I love their catfish as well. I haven't been there in a long time.
Yesterday I decided to make white beans, coleslaw and corn cakes (instead of hushpuppies). I served it with dill pickles and sliced tomatoes. It was a frugal yet yummy meal!
I hadn't cooked beans in the crockpot before but I looked a bit online and it seemed easy enough.
This is what I did.
Crockpot white beans
2 16 oz bags of white beans
water
bacon paste (from Soupbase.com)
1 packet of onion soup mix (I only used 1/2 and it definitely could have used a whole pack if not more)
salt
Look through beans and discard any stones, broken beans, etc. Rinse beans and place in crockpot. Add water (go about 2-3 inches above beans), bacon paste (I used about 2 tsp, you could use more or use some ham) and onion soup mix. I let this cook on low at first. Then decided to turn it to high because I didn't get it started til later than I had meant and wanted to speed up the cook time. I think it's good to get it up to temp so I would start out on high and either cook it on high or switch over to low after 3 hours or so. I added salt near the end after tasting to see where it was on seasoning.
I had never made homemade coleslaw before so I looked on Allrecipes.com and found a recipe for coleslaw.
Mom's Coleslaw
INGREDIENTS
* 1 small head cabbage, shredded
* 3 medium carrots, shredded
* 1 cup mayonnaise
* 1/3 cup sugar
* 1/4 cup cider vinegar
DIRECTIONS
1. In a large bowl, combine cabbage and carrots. In a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise, sugar and vinegar. Pour over cabbage mixture and toss to coat. Serve with a slotted spoon.
It turned out really yummy. I did add a tablespoon or so of ranch dressing to mine and some salt and pepper.
All in all a very good meal. Not exactly like Huck Finn's (I'd rather have the hushpuppies but have never made them so didn't try that yet) but a close substitute.
Happy Eating!
This is being shared at Tempt My Tummy Tuesday at Blessed With Grace.
Yesterday I decided to make white beans, coleslaw and corn cakes (instead of hushpuppies). I served it with dill pickles and sliced tomatoes. It was a frugal yet yummy meal!
I hadn't cooked beans in the crockpot before but I looked a bit online and it seemed easy enough.
This is what I did.
Crockpot white beans
2 16 oz bags of white beans
water
bacon paste (from Soupbase.com)
1 packet of onion soup mix (I only used 1/2 and it definitely could have used a whole pack if not more)
salt
Look through beans and discard any stones, broken beans, etc. Rinse beans and place in crockpot. Add water (go about 2-3 inches above beans), bacon paste (I used about 2 tsp, you could use more or use some ham) and onion soup mix. I let this cook on low at first. Then decided to turn it to high because I didn't get it started til later than I had meant and wanted to speed up the cook time. I think it's good to get it up to temp so I would start out on high and either cook it on high or switch over to low after 3 hours or so. I added salt near the end after tasting to see where it was on seasoning.
I had never made homemade coleslaw before so I looked on Allrecipes.com and found a recipe for coleslaw.
Mom's Coleslaw
INGREDIENTS
* 1 small head cabbage, shredded
* 3 medium carrots, shredded
* 1 cup mayonnaise
* 1/3 cup sugar
* 1/4 cup cider vinegar
DIRECTIONS
1. In a large bowl, combine cabbage and carrots. In a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise, sugar and vinegar. Pour over cabbage mixture and toss to coat. Serve with a slotted spoon.
It turned out really yummy. I did add a tablespoon or so of ranch dressing to mine and some salt and pepper.
All in all a very good meal. Not exactly like Huck Finn's (I'd rather have the hushpuppies but have never made them so didn't try that yet) but a close substitute.
Happy Eating!
This is being shared at Tempt My Tummy Tuesday at Blessed With Grace.
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