BEST MEAL EVER! You can make this entree out of canned BEANS!

My car broke down recently and I couldn't go to the store for three weeks. I ratted around and found an ounce of freezer-burned bacon that had escaped my eye.(I once every six months take BACON and break it into a dozen pckgs, freezing them all.) What to eat it with? BLT is my fave but no bread, no tomatos. But I had a can of pintos!( I  had walked a mile to a market a week earlier, found I didn't dare buy two cans. Too heavy to walk it home!) But I had ONE CAN. I hate eating beans by themselves, and I didn't have any corn tortillas but I found some little dibs and dabs of stuff that made that BEAN DISH SO WILDLY GOOD....that I am writing it down. IT WAS AMAZING!

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FREEZER BURN BEANS.
INGREDIENTS: You need  2 strips of bacon, l jalapeno chile, l tomatillo, 1/2 an onion, fistful of cilantro, a shake of homemade seasoning salt*, one can PINTO beans.

Fry 2 pcs bacon, drain so they're crisp. Use paper towel to clean grease out of pan. ADD 1 tbspon OLIVE OIL, chopped  tomatillo, onion, minced cleaned out (no interior seeds,) jalapeno. Sautee, then add cilantro ....saute a little more, then dump drained can of pintos in, Mash with masher. Add bacon pcs. Serve.
What's a savory beans on your plate if no corn tortillas? Last time that happened, I stood outside looking at all my latino neighbors thinking, who can I hit up for two tortillas? But no heads were visible; it was the dinner hour. Luckily I had a big piece of CORNBREAD wrapped in plastic in the freezer.So I had my HITTING BOTTOM BEANS with that. They were AMAZING! Peppery, savory! Filling! And half a pan is left over for a three a.m. snack.

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* My ritzy Bev Hills pals always throw away spices after a year. So I say, when you are going to clean house on old spices, I'll come get them. And I do. I mix my favorites: celery seed, (Secret spice of KFC) thyme, sage, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, tad of oregano, tad of curry or tumeric, and I re-use their spice bottles which have shaker lids.

LEARN EVERYTHING KNOWN ABOUT BEANS, especially how to cook them from scratch.

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