Didn't make these, but do have a pot of beans on for dinner tonight. Can't wait. Coupled with the pork shoulder I smoked on Friday, we'll be eating good this week.

Had 'em last night with ribs and a corn custard from last year's garden. I think they get better every time we cook them.

Making a batch right now to take to Christmas at my MIL's this evening. Unfortunately, I have to substitute jalapeos for the serranos because they can't take heat over there. I can usually get my MIL to flip me off when I ask her what it was like growing up in Wisconsin (even though she was born in San Antonio & grew up south of Highway 90.)

Thanks for the recipe B-1 and Merry Christmas TexAgs Outdoor Board.

Made the beans tonight for Christmas Eve (with tamales), they were every bit as good as advertised. Will make again.

I made a pot this morning sub in spicy v8 for calmato

Made it again tonight. I had to look up this thread again because I didn't pay attention to the peppers. I threw in 4 Serranos as I guess I have normally have because that's what the recipe calls for but it blew my wife and mother out of the water.

Tasted fine to me.

Serranos are like a box of chocolates.....

B-1 83 said:

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Serranos are like a box of chocolates.....

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You never know what you're truly going to get till they exit your butt

Exceptable substitions for serrano? Jalapeno? Chipotle?

I usually do two Serranos and two jalapenos. I try and keep the same number of peppers, but will sub jalapenos for serranos.

I'm starting to have a real problem with Clamato. Maybe it's the hot weather making me crave salt but I could spend $10 a day on the stuff.

Going to make these tomorrow w/ AC's Jerk Chicken.

Update: made these tonight per the original recipe on page one along with the Jerk Chicken recipe that Aggie Chemist posted a few years ago...holy smokes everything was great and complimented eachother perfectly. Next time I will do the bacon before the onion, but besides that I have no complaints whatsoever. Great recipe B-1

I do the bacon and onion in separate pans and then combine everything.

can you link me to the jerk chicken?

Latest batch was for family gathering outside Leakey. Big hit once again.

Thread title is not a lie.

Bump. Will have a pot going on later for both the Aggies and the Astros!

Made these for FFB draft in August and they turned out really good, so now making a huge pot for a HS reunion. I will concur that for whatever reason, they are absolutely better the second day. Just needs time to meld I guess. Took a little bit of the cilantro out of mine, added some garlic salt and cumin and just a little bit of Meyer's BBQ sauce to give a little bit of black pepper and smoky flavor to it and they were phenomenal. Thanks B1 you are the man!

Have loved this recipe for years. Made it yesterday again...for those that have eaters that want it a bit milder, gut and deseed two of the four serranos.

I was asked to make some of these beans for our Thanksgiving Dinner again this year.

I never know how many people are going to show up so I might need to double everything.

I got enough ingredients to make two separate batches. I'm tempted to make two separate batches tonight, store them in the refrigerator overnight, and heat whichever one is milder tomorrow. Most of the people there aren't interested in them if they are really hot.

If they are both about the same, I can mix them together. If one is significantly milder, then I can mix anything left over from Thanksgiving Dinner with the hotter batch.

Edit to add:

It's a good thing that I did two batches. I only used the seeds of two of the four peppers in one batch and it turned out okay. The one with the seeds of all four peppers is really hot. I had about half of the milder batch left over from lunch so I mixed a bowl for supper with equal parts of each batch to try to make it a little less hot and the results are still incredibly hot.

I don't venture over to this board very often, but I am glad I did after finding this thread.
We tried B1-83's recipe a couple of nights ago, and they are definitely as good as advertised. We stripped the seed out of the serranos based on some of the recommendations, and I'm glad we did. The heat was just right for our tastes.
I'm looking forward tor trying some of the variations posted here, too.