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Cowboy Beans!

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Pair with The Duke 2009.

This bean dish hails from the west of the US, with added Botobolar touches, and is often served along side a thick juicy steak or bbqued ribs. However they can be a meal in their own right accompanied by savoury corn bread, leafy salad and a glass of the Duke.

Ingredients:

  • 250 grams rind-less bacon
  • 150 grms mince beef
  • 1 leeks thinly sliced
  • 1 cup onion
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 400 grm tin of Kidney Beans
  • 1 400 grm tin of Chick Peas
  • 1 400 grm tin of cannellini beans

Mix together the following and set aside:

  • ½ cup tomato sauce
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tblsp prepared mustard
  • 2 tblsp cider vinegar
  • 1 tsp Worcestershire Sauce
  • 1 tblsp sweet chilli
  • 1 tsp chilli powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • sprig of rosemary chopped
  • 2 chopped bird’s eye chillies

In large pot brown bacon, add, onion, garlic and saute until translucent.

Stir in beans with liquid from tins and blended sauce,  cook over medium heat until flavours have blended and liquid reduced. Serve immediately with a glass of “The Duke”.  Beans can be refrigerated.  I tried this with dry bean and even with soaking failed miserably! Of course this recipe can be made without the meat for vegetarian consumption.

Corn Bread Muffins

Paul Prudhomme is a famous US chef who hails from Louisiana, and a champion of Cajun cuisine, his corn bread recipe is one of my favourites which can be made sweet or savoury.

Paul Prudhomme’s Louisiana Kitchen copywrite 1984

  • 1 1/3 cups plain flour
  • 2/3 cup cornmeal
  • 2/3 cup sugar (optional)
  • ½ cup corn flower
  • 5 teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 1/3 cups milk
  • 5 tblsp unsalted butter melted
  • 1 egg beaten

Preheat oven to 180 degrees

Combine flour, cornmeal, sugar, cornflour baking powder, and salt. In another bowl combine the milk, butter and eggs, then add to dry ingredient mixture. Blend until just mixed and lumps are dissolved. Do not over beat.

Pour mixture into prepared pan and bake until golden brown, about 40 minutes for the loaf pan and 25 minutes for the muffins.

Serve warm with the beans and The Duke!

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