Beans and Rice

I love dried beans, they are so easy to cook. It may take all day but still easy to cook. I like to make my beans in the crock pot, because then you don't have to do anything with them, just let them cook. This is my basic beans recipe that I use when I make dried Lima beans, navy beans, black eyed peas, and great northern beans.

Tonight I made baby Lima beans.

Night before: dump beans into crock pot, making sure that there is no rocks in it. Fill crock pot 3/4 way full of water. I do not put salt in my beans because I use either bacon, fat back, ham pieces, or something of that sort (I used bacon tonight). Add pepper, 3 Tbsp onion powder (can use a cut up onion instead), 3 Tbsp garlic powder. Let sit over night.

In the morning: Add 1 stick of butter and set crock pot to low.

Dinner time: Just fix some rice and cornbread (if you like).

Serve beans over rice.

Very yummy.

Some people in my family like to dice up an onion and serve it on top.