Easy Smoke-Flavored Pinto Beans - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 lb dried pinto bean
    2 lbs turkey neck, bones smoked
Preparation
    You will find a package of smoked turkey neck bones in the freezer section for about $2-3.
    Soak pinto beans overnight. Drain and rinse again.
    Pour drained beans into a 4-5 quart pot
    Add smoked turkey neck bones (or 2 smoked ham hocks)
    Cover with water that is 1-1/2 to 2 inches over the beans and neck bones bones or hocks.
    Bring to boil and then reduce heat to low and cover.
    Cook for about 5 hours until the beans are tender and the water is a kind of gravy.
    Check every hour or so to make sure that the water level is at least 1 inch higher than the beans.
    Remove from heat and remove neck bones or hocks.
    Serve with bread or rolls to dip into the gravy water.
    NOTE: This does very well cooking all day in a crock pot set on low in the morning.
    And the beans only taste better the next day and the next and the next.

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