At 11:23 AM -0400 17.04.02, Harold James wrote: >Sometime the best way is a simple way. My grand mother used salt (to >taste), white pepper (to taste), chicken stock, garlic (4 cloves >crushed), 1 small yellow onion (diced) and ham cut into one-inch >cubes (sometimes 6 ham hocks (whole) if you cannot tell she was from >the south (Mississippi)). Wash beans And a damned good state from which to be!! The use of hocks is so very nice cuz you get to nibble on them when done cooking...and all fat free! (HA!) (redneck pride showing) -- Peace, Hendrix, and Chiles....... Rael64 Monk of the TCS Order of Enlightened Twister [TM!]