Brown Beans With Cornbread

So for my first recipe, I am posting my all-time favorite meal!!! Brown Beans and Cornbread!!! I cannot begin to explain how much I love this meal! I grew up eating this and still love it to this day. It brings back many great memories of family meals. This is how I make them:

Ingredients:

1lb. bag of dry Pinto Beans
1 Pkg. Sliced Pork Jowl Bacon, Smoked
1 Tbsp. Salt
1 Tbsp. Pepper
7-8 Cups Water

Directions:

1. Separate your beans. There are always broken and shriveled up beans in your bag. Sometimes even rocks. You always need to separate your beans before you cook them. I just dump them carefully (so you don't have beans all over your kitchen) onto a clean counter top and push the bad ones to the side and the good ones into a bowl. (I picked out these bad beans and 2 rocks out of this bag!)

2. Put your good beans into your crock pot. Top them with the Jowl Bacon and the salt and pepper. Cover with the water. You need to have just enough water to cover everything, but no more and no less!

3. Cook on Low for 8 hours or on High for 4-6 Hours. The juice will turn brown in color when they are done. You should also stir the beans every couple of hours and make sure everything is under the water, otherwise it will dry out.

When your beans are done, I recommend serving them with fresh diced onions and Jiffy cornbread muffins!Or you could always make you up some homemade cornbread. It is delicious!! Just follow the directions on the box for the Jiffy cornbread! And you will have a lovely southern meal!!!