Beans N' Ham Hocks - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (16 ounce) package pink beans (washed and picked clean of rocks and soaked over night)
1 small onion, diced
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 large ham hock, split in half
6 -8 cups water or 6 -8 cups chicken stock
salt and pepper, to taste

Preparation

In crockpot add cleaned beans, onions, garlic and ham hock.
Cover with water or chicken stock and cook on medium for 6 hours.
At about the half way point the meat should come off the ham hock, if not let it cook a little longer until you can. Remove the ham hock from beans and let cool.
Remove the layer of fat from the ham hock and shred the meat into bite size pieces and return to the crockpot.
When beans are done add salt and pepper to taste and skim as much fat off the beans as possible.