The comfort of homemade cornbread
Sunday, February 7, 2016
About a month or so ago, Marge bought a spiral sliced ham that we really enjoyed. The ham had a fair-sized bone in it that just shouted out that it was meant for a big pot of beans. So just over a week ago, Marge got her bigger Crock-Pot out and we began to put together some ham and beans. I inspected the beans for rocks and then washed them. Once clean, we added them to the Crock-Pot, along with the bone and several quarts of water and a big onion (I should have added two). We turned it on high until bedtime and then turned it down to low.
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