homemade pork and beans tonight

boyd loves "butter beans".  that is what his mom called them.  they are dried lima beans cooked in water, salt, butter, onion.  i used dried limas today, but i did not make "butter beans".

yesterday i put a frozen wad of pork in the slow cooker with some diet 7up, curry and cloves and let in cook for about 6 hours.  turns out they were pork chops.  i cut the bone and fat off, sliced up the meat and put in fridge overnight.

then i put a bag of dried lima beans in a pot of water for a couple of hours.  drained the water and added the  swollen beans to the pork pot overnight in the fridge.  this morning i put that pot back in the slow cooker.  I chopped 2 onions and added them to the pot and then I poured about a cup of bbq sauce, a cup of steak sauce and 1/2 cup of catalina dressing in the pot as well, along with about a cup of water.  stir and let cook for 8 hours.  wow.  it was really good!  i loosened the lid a bit at the end, so that some of the liquid could cook off and give me a more intense flavor.

i did not know what i was doing --- just making it up as i went.  in retrospect i would put less water and a bit more bbq sauce in it --- and i would have put bbq sauce in the pre cooked pork too.  i would cook the beans a bit longer, they could be just a bit softer.  tomorrow they will be perfection.

boyd loved it.