# Frijoles - simple version **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 1, 2001, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frijoles-simple-version/96321 "2001-12-01T15:21:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frijoles-simple-version/96321/1 "2001-12-01T15:21:09Z")
Nothing elaborate here…no scratch cooking, bean pots, or soaking the dried article. Just when you’re making a big ol’ Mexican dinner and a half hour before you serve it up you say “Oh, man, can’t forget the damn BEANS.” **This is what I do, and I’d love to try something different once in a while, so weigh in with your variations.** Chop up a small onion and saute it in a light vegetable oil (or bacon grease, if I have a little bacon in the house) until soft, about eight minutes over medium-low, in a small saucepan. Toss in a chopped garlic clove, 1/2 tsp. of oregano, a few shakes of crushed red pepper and the same of some Adobo seasoning (substitute salt and pepper if you don’t keep Adobo around). Stir for a minute of two, then pour in a tblsp. of cider vinegar. When that reduces a bit, pour in a 16-oz. can of drained, rinsed beans (pinto or black, depending on what’s on hand or what’ll go better with the main course). Now pop open a Cheap American Beer[sub]TM[/sub] and pour in enough to cover the beans. Set that on a back burner and let it simmer while you get the rest of the meal ready. Serve as is, or take a potato masher to the pot if you want to spread the beans on a tortilla as a base for the rest of the stuff. Make sure the beer cooks down…you don’t want your beans swimming, or the mashed beans too liquid. (This is adapted from the old “Frijoles Borrachos” of North Mexico…“drunken beans.” The onion and garlic and oregano are a given, but the combo of vinegar and beer is unexpectedly yummy. Sometimes I add a shake or two of dried ground chilpotles if I want to add a smoky/chile flavor, but otherwise these really aren’t “chili beans.”) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frijoles-simple-version/96321/2 "2001-12-01T15:50:41Z")
I know I’m missing something obvious here, but this is in Cafe Society because … 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frijoles-simple-version/96321/3 "2001-12-01T15:52:25Z")
Cooking question. There’s a number of them around here. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frijoles-simple-version/96321/4 "2001-12-01T15:56:03Z")
Oh, cool. Didn’t see cooking listed in “Our salon for art, drama, literature, movies, music – all the artistic disciplines – if it’s about art or entertainment, it goes here” but I won’t argue with the Mod of the House. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![P.W.Doodle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f14d63/32.png) [@P.W.Doodle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P.W.Doodle)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frijoles-simple-version/96321/5 "2001-12-01T16:04:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KneadToKnow \* > \*\*[SNIP]…but I won’t argue with the Mod of the House. 😃 \*\* I was about to say you sure are brave! **Ukulele Ike** , if you have a little more time, you could take those frijoles of yours and spread them out in a oven safe dish (I like stoneware) and pour salsa on top of them. Then you can add a variety of “Mexican” cheeses on top of the salsa. Put in the oven until the cheese melts and it bubbles 🙂 and serve it as a dip for your tortilla chips. Yummy! Thanks for the bean recipe! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frijoles-simple-version/96321/6 "2001-12-01T19:34:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KneadToKnow \* > **Didn’t see cooking listed in “Our salon for art, drama, literature, movies, music – all the artistic disciplines – if it’s about art or entertainment, it goes here” but I won’t argue with the Mod of the House.** [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=88451](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=88451) Don’t make me and my buddy **plnnr** come over there, **Knead.** (Insert smiley of your choice here) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frijoles-simple-version/96321/7 "2001-12-01T19:42:15Z")
[Bevis] Huh-huh. He said “pole.” Huh-huh. [/Bevis] ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2001, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frijoles-simple-version/96321/8 "2001-12-02T00:37:27Z")
Shut up and deal the cards. – Uke, making a bitterly humorous reference to the fact that he’s started yet ANOTHER thread that’s quickly sunk beneath all the “Star Trek,” Harry Potter, and Archie Comics-Veronica-Va-Va-Voom ones, and which has degenerated into a two-way with the sorry likes of \*\*KneadToKnow ---
**Author:** ![P.W.Doodle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f14d63/32.png) [@P.W.Doodle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P.W.Doodle)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2001, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frijoles-simple-version/96321/9 "2001-12-02T01:35:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > [snip]… he’s started yet ANOTHER thread that’s quickly sunk beneath all the “Star Trek,” Harry Potter, and Archie Comics-Veronica-Va-Va-Voom ones, and which has degenerated into a **two-way** with the sorry likes of KneadToKnow > _bolding mine_ Ok…I was just feeling like my post was worthless drivel…now, I feel completely invisible!! ---
**Author:** ![jaimest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@jaimest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaimest)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2001, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frijoles-simple-version/96321/10 "2001-12-02T13:27:50Z")
I don’t eat red meat, but I make an exception for frijoles…they must be cooked with some sort of hogfat to have that frijol taste :). And adobo is a nice touch. I live in El Paso, where Mexican food is well…food. Now to go with those beans… _Arroz a la Mexicana_ Get 5 cups of chicken stock, about a 1/4 cup of oil , 2 cups of plain rice, as much garlic as you can stand, chop up half a large white onion (or a whole small one), and 2 or 3 sliced or chopped tomatoes, 1 well chopped carrot, and a bit of mild chopped chile…and maybe 2 or 3 shots of tequila. Wash and dry the rice as you heat the oil in a skillet to high, then add the rice, and stir so that all the grains of rice get toasted a little (it should become yellowish). Then turn it down to medium. Put the tomatoes and garlic in a blender and mix it (or cheat and use garlic powder and tomato puree instead). Add the onion and cook the rice for 5 more minutes. Then add the chicken stock chile and carrots, and cook on medium low heat covered up, until the liquid is soaked in. (30 mins.?) The tequila doesn’t go into the rice, but having a bit will help with the onion eyes…🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2001, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frijoles-simple-version/96321/11 "2001-12-02T15:26:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > the sorry likes of \*\*KneadToKnow \*\* It’s no [“puddle of distended rectal filth”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=101718), but I guess it will have to do. 😃