It’s a Texas staple – cooked pinto beans. Beans are easy to store in their dry mode, thereby making an ever ready item back in the chuckwagon days and before grocery stores were readily available in rural areas.

This recipe is simple, using only a few ingredients, but the absolutely secret is the salt pork! It provides a flavor that seals the deal on scrumptious beans. Add a little chili powder, and you have a mouth full of pure joy.

Throw the beans in a pot, cover with water, and add the salt pork. Turn the heat on low and go about your day!

Cowboy Beans (Easy All Day version)

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Course Side Dish

Ingredients

  

• 1 pound pinto beans
• 1 package salt pork (about ¼ pound)
• 3-4 garlic cloves according to taste
• 1 tbsp chili powder
• salt and coarse cracked pepper to taste

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The decorations are packed away, the tree is down, but there may remain a remnant of the holidays, frozen in your freezer- left-over turkey. Here’s a recipe to take that ‘ol turkey to another level: Zesty Turkey Salad.

Spicy pickles, horseradish, and cumin come together in one taste sensation! And the recipe only has two steps! Ok, there is a little dicing, etc. but on the whole, its a snap.

You can serve it on lettuce leaves as I show here,or thinly slice a baguette and make mini sandwiches ready for lunch. I prepared this recipe for 8 so you’ll have plenty protein to munch on for the week. Watch it, though, it may disappear faster than you anticipate!

Zesty Turkey Salad

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Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Servings 8

Ingredients

  

• 4 cups cubed, cooked turkey
• 1½ cups diced onion
• 3 microwaved eggs, chopped
• ⅓ cup zesty pickles
• ½ cup sour cream
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 4 tbsp Dijon mustard
• 2 tbsp prepared horseradish
• 2 tsp paprika
• 1 tsp pepper
• 2 tsp cumin

Instructions

 

• Combine the turkey, onion, eggs, and pickles in a large bowl.
• Mix sour cream, mayonnaise, Dijon mustard, horseradish, cumin, paprika, and black pepper together in a separate bowl until smooth.
• Stir sour cream mixture into turkey mixture until evenly coated.
• Let sit in fridge for an hour or so before serving to let the flavors meld together.

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