Baked beans, cottage style.
Two pork ribs, trimmed off a bit to make supper tomorrow, and a piece of smoked bacon, chopped - browned over the fire for 5 minutes or so.
Added a chopped onion, garlic, then a few minutes later, a tablespoon of brown sugar.
Opened tin of tomatoes - and sod it, the new 99p tin opener doesn't work. Curse Robert Dyas then open tin with brute force.
Add 'tin opener' to the shopping list chalked onto the mantel piece.
Added tomatoes to pan. Wiped the fine spray of tomato juice from my face. I probably look like Paul Bettany in Gangster No. 1. The tin died hard...
Added black pepper, bay leaf, majoram - no salt, salt hardens beans.
Added bowl of white beans soaked overnight and water from kettle.
Brought to boil for 10 minutes.
Now, if I had a hay-box, i'd have slid it in there and left it for 4 hours. I don't, so the pot went into the lpg stove in the back-kitchen.
Mmm - lovely smells. Time for breakfast, and a 2 hour stint at the keyboard
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