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My neighbor Inez handed me a bag of dried pintos through the fence in 2019 and showed me her $1.20 pot
She soaked them overnight, tossed in a ham hock she got free from the butcher, and fed four of us for two days, and I still make that pot every winter when cash gets thin, so what's the one cheap dish somebody showed you how to make?
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wyatt_mitchell2628d ago
Wait, is a pot of beans really the big lesson here? The story is nice but she got a free ham hock from a butcher, which most people can't just walk in and ask for these days. And "fed four of us for two days" off beans and a hock? That's a stretch unless there was cornbread and rice doing the heavy lifting too. I've made cheap pintos plenty of times and yeah they fill you up, but the thing that actually saved money was knowing the butcher, not the recipe. The dish is fine, I'm just not buying that beans alone are some magic trick.
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