Cabin Cookout: Baked Beans on the Fire

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Baked beans with bacon cooked on the fire in a cast iron crock pot at the cabin. Recipe including ingredients and calories per serving at the end of the video.

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nothing wrong with vegetarian every once in a while although I added bacon so vegetarian including bacon but that is an awesome meal regardless for the other bacon in there or not there's so much health and nutrition in that thing so most of the meals you've seen me cook out here in the past have been high protein high fat and and quite a few comments about my health but of course I don't eat that way typically I do eat more when I'm out here in the wild and working hard but at home I always have healthy meals so this frittata mix is something I cook and something I make every single day at home tonight I'm having a almost vegetarian meal big beans so I'm making baked beans with with some beans that I grew in the garden had dried beans so typically what you would do is soak the beans overnight but it's not necessary that's not quite true that you have to do that so I didn't do that I just I started soaking these maybe two hours ago up here and change some water and then put water back in his mr. simmering boiling and then simmering these beans so might be a little bit softer if you soak them overnight but I don't mind a little bit of crunch in the beans I'm going to add a whole bunch of vegetables to this as well some homegrown tomatoes garlic onions zucchini a whole bunch of things that I'm going to actually put in my frittata my breakfast tomorrow morning as well but the beans will soak up that tomato sauce and give a nice rich flavor bacon will give it some smokiness and so will the fire normally I would put barbecue sauce in there but I usually make my own anyway I just add liquid smoke to a tomato-based sauce so keys to me are lots of onions garlic tomato then whatever else I've got a whole bunch of other vegetables like peppers mushrooms and and I'll put the list put the ingredients in the description below and if you have any questions anyway just ask me and I'll let you know how I did the whole thing so trick is to get this fired to a nice low heat

lots of coals so it's not bubbling and boiling

and burning when it evaporates the water and instead just simmers it away so I'm going to get ready to add these vegetables now right so the beans have been simmering away for about two hours now I guess I'm going to go ahead and add the tomatoes onions tomatoes onions and garlic I think is all I have in this bag and then I have another bag of other mixed vegetables and spinach that's actually going to go into the beans as well cooked up a bone for Kali she's sitting there watching me wondering why I'm talking to myself but she's content he's tired out from me throwing her toy around the forest so she's giving me a little bit of peace right now so I'm going to get this going get back at these logs and then come back in a couple hours and see what it looks like it's going to add some more liquid to I have to keep adding water but better if I can add this tomato based juice to take with the tomato juice

going to have more flavor than the coarser other than that I think I'll cut up a little bit more than half of this bacon and put it right into the beans and I'll save a little bit for breakfast for tomorrow morning when I make these beans at home what I typically put in there is a smoked pork hock so it just adds a lot of smoky flavor to the beans without adding much meat or not much fat so I ended up taking basically the hock out trim a little bit off it need to meet but it's really the smoke in the rind in there and the bone that gets it the flavors the beans beans of course don't have a lot of fat in them and maybe not a complete meal for working hard in the outdoors unless you get some some extra fat and extra calories in there not necessary of course of course if you're vegetarian you wouldn't add that and I often don't add meat in the beans either I like them either way I do like all these vegetables that I put in there so I think what I'll do is let that break down a little bit simmer for about an hour and I'll throw the rest of these vegetables in I'm going to keep about half that back from my breakfast up top for the beans out for the frittata you delict would sort of the cover can't believe almost forgot one a key ingredient in my baked beans maple sugar usually use maple syrup but I have a whole bunch of this maple sugar left over from last year so I mean it's going to I just brought that with me yeah that's good I'm surrounded here by yellow birch trees and sugar maples so next February March you can tap the trees up here and we'll make a whole huge batch of maple syrup and maple sugar it's a staple in this area for dizziness people's going back thousands of years of course so we're fortunate I have access to that concentrated calories and makes a great addition to a meal like big beans this makes it's even that much more complete and much more a full calorie so add that in there and enjoy are you trying to get some of this you want some beans beans and bacon there you go get your dish you go get your dish and I'll give it a little bit okay

I'll face the camera at least let it cool down okay let it cool down okay - hut two hut one no they don't just let it cool good girl just let it cool it smells good yeah it's let it cool a little bit

here's will be cool another big chunks of tomato you like tomato we can draw off the line don't you spinach onion garlic I'm not sure this is all good for you that you're not going to relent are you you definitely having some so that's the simmer total of maybe three hours three and a half hours I guess and they're not that crunchy actually tiny bit of crunch to them but in a good way well it's going to be able to put this food away and head down to the metal see if we can see something molds or something hey girl one more oh I know you do alright yep yep big girl get down good girl

and put it Friday but I want you to leave it's old school okay touch it till it's cool pops too hot good girl wait a few minutes right you just let it cool down oh yes not yet no education listen no no no no no no no not yet it's still hot okay that's not good is it let it cool down do not bark okay cannot bark you wait a few minutes you

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