#beans and cornbread

Louis Jordan: Beans and Cornbread Beans and Cornbread on Amazon Prime Music Continuing my focus on the music of 1975, today’s song is from the best Greatest Hits album of the year. The Best of Louis Jordan was posthumously released the year of his death at age 66. Yes, it is a collection of songs from the 1940s and ’50s, but it is still THE Louis Jordan release that people listen to most often,…

90 Min Soup Beans

The First Reader has been asking me to make soup beans for a while now. I’d finally gotten around to finding a smoked ham shank, as cooking a whole ham for three of us, in the apartment was… too much. I had a snow day, and I cooked all day. Ran the oven for most of it. Bread, then cookies, then cornbread… but the beans were not an all day cook. Soup beans can be a two-day affair, and they are…