Cut chicken breast into strips, soaked in buttermilk for awhile. To bread I did a mix of flour, garlic powder, salt, pepper, and some other spices, use whatever you like. Went egg wash, flour mix, egg wash, and then about 50 50 mix of panko and regular bread crumbs.
Cornbread cooked in cast iron.
Beans must be European, maybe Dutch, Van Camps I believe they called them.
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Good fried chicken is an art form. Well done.
Those fancy-schmancy European pork and beans are tasty, but they don't beat having a couple vac-pac bags of charro beans in the deep freeze.
Pasted from
https://www.fivehearthome.com/slow-cooker-charro-beans/ so you don't have to read the food blogger's life story:
INGREDIENTS
▢½ pound bacon
▢1 pound dried pinto beans
▢4 cups water
▢2 cups beef broth
▢6 cloves garlic, minced
▢Fresh jalapeno, diced (optional)
▢1 tablespoon cumin
▢1 teaspoon garlic powder
▢1 teaspoon chili powder
▢1 (10-ounce) can diced tomatoes & green chiles, such as Rotel
▢1 cup fresh cilantro leaves, chopped
▢Salt & freshly ground black pepper
INSTRUCTIONS
Place the beans in a colander, rinse well, and remove any stones or shriveled beans.
Cook the bacon until just crispy. Drain, chop, and set aside.
Pour the beans into the slow cooker. Cover with water and beef broth. Add chopped bacon, garlic, jalapeño (if using), cumin, garlic powder, and chili powder. Cover and cook on low for 7 to 9 hours or until almost done.
Stir in the Rotel and chopped cilantro; cover and cook for an additional hour or until tender (the total cooking time will likely be between 8 to 10 hours, depending on how hot your particular slow cooker runs).
When the beans are done, season with salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste (stir in ½ teaspoon of salt at a time, tasting before adding more).
EQUIPMENT NEEDED
6-quart or larger Slow Cooker
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You can sub beer (preferably a Mexican beer like Corona or Negro Modelo, but any North American lager will do) for the beef broth. This variant is called "borracho beans" or "frijoles borrachos". 'Borracho' means 'drunk'.
The blogger goes in depth on how to cook bacon. If you need to be told how to cook bacon you have my sympathy.
Obviously you can play around with tomatoes and jalapenos vs Ro-Tel, depending on how well your household tolerates spicy food. Garnish like chili (sour cream, onion, cheese, jalapeno, etc.). This is a bit 'soupier' than Boston-style baked beans.
