Dave: Hello, this is, 'Cooking with Dave' again. I am the World's Greatest Chef and it says so World's Greatest Chef on my apron, probably you can't see it. I am not close enough, but that's okay.
Alright there is some grease burning here, we do not want to burn the grease. I have some bacon grease going on here, I am going to put some onions in there. Today we are cooking mixed beans. I have put a cup of bell pepper cut up in there. I am going to put a big teaspoon of garlic in there. I have some bacon grease in here. I took the maple bacon and rendered it down as it says. I used the grease for my beans. Lately, I have been using some olive oil, but people have been complaining that olive oil and the chicken base really doesn't have the flavor of maple bacon, which it doesn't. Nothing has the flavor of maple bacon. Maple bacon is wonderful. Of course, it tastes great. They will pass it for you.
Look, like I always say, things that I cook you really don't want to eat them everyday, but once in a while you can treat yourself with some maple bacon. I have not had any of the bacon for quite some time, so I am going to. Now let those things just caramelize them in the bacon grease, start turn a little bit brown, a little beige color. You add the peppers in there and the garlic and the onions. We are now taking the mixed beans, this is the bag of mixed beans that I soaked all day long. I started soaking them this morning by 8 o'clock. I soaked them for about eight hours.
Now I can leave them around. They cook pretty quick, mixed bean, I have got to cook them in this pot for about an hour, maybe an hour and 15 minutes, just till they are soft and nice and juicy. Then I will put them on some brown rice and they will be wonderful, like they always are. I like the beans and rice. Now if you do not want to use maple bacon you do not have to and you can use some olive oil and that is all you really need, something to sweat off your vegetables, use some olive oil. You want, use them both. So you use some vegetable oil. I mean it is up to you, what you want to use, what you like, what you think is good. Put a little salt and pepper in there. Hey, we didn't do that. We use the salt and pepper, of course. You know we have got bacon grease going on, that's enough salt and pepper for everybody. Little salt and pepper, put beans, and all I did so all I did was put the beans in there on top of the onions and the garlic and the peppers and I will just turn it on medium heat, bring it to a simmer and let it simmer for about an hour.
Now I will check it to see what is going on with it. It is starting to turn the color, it is starting to get a little thicker and if I want my sauce to be thicker I can just mash some beans up in the sauce and that makes the sauce thicker. It is not thick enough for what I think we are going to do. We will come back to take a look at it and let it cook.
Here is our beans, we have been cooking the beans now for about, I guess an hour and a half, a little bit. It is still like there is so much water in them, a little bit, there is some water in them, see that, I need to just bubble the water off. I will, but they are tender, they are soft. I have got the green peppers going on in there, the onions and the garlic and the maple bacon and we will put it into a bowl on top of some brown rice and call it dinner. I will show you how to do that next.
Here we are with our beans. I have beans, I have put them on brown rice. Remember I had that maple bacon I had cooked down and used the grease and the beans when we first started to cook? I took that same maple bacon that I had cooked and I have put it right on top of my beans. It is going to be very nice.
Now tell me that does not look good. We have bacon, mixed beans, and brown rice. Alright, that was cooking mixed beans with Dave. Hope you enjoyed it and remember that I am the World's Greatest Chef, it says so, right here, on my apron.
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