I enjoy cooking red beans, and I love to add lots of flavor to them. Around the end of the month when our fixed income wears thin, it is time for beans. Beans taste really good if they are cooked right. I like to add mild smoke sausage to them ,and plenty of chopped onions and garlic to them. I usually saute the onions and garlic with a little bit of olive oil.I also like to add red bean seasoning mix to them. I also like to add ham hocks and chunks of ham to the beans. Salt and pepper is also added.

My beans are sometimes are awful to my body. I think and accumulation of bean gas often tries to murder me with gas . My wife told me about some about gas pills she keeps stored in her medicine tray in a special zip lock plastic bag. Our daughter Becky simply calls them fart pills. 

Beans can be embarrassing. I never serve beans to grand ma. Becky told me that grandma passes gas anyway sometimes.  Our beans taste good, but we pay a dear price for enjoying them.

I wrote some really nice red bean recipes once , but no one read them so I gave them all to relatives. I think it is because almost everyone everywhere knows how to cook them. I add lots of water in my beans and give them a long time to cook on a low flame. I bet they would taste even better if I added chicken broth, but don't buy it, make it yourself. All you have to do is to boil or steam a few pieces of chicken, and then use the chicken for another purpose or add them to the beans with the broth. The important thing about any kind of cooking is flavor, as if you did not already know this as well.

Also never forget to put a few bay leaves in your pot of beans while cooking them. If you prefer spicy beans simply add a little red pepper sauce, or a powdered version of it. I can promise you they will taste good but somewhat hot.

When my stomach hurts I know when beans are working on me so I do my best to stay near the vicinity of the bathroom when ever possible.

Gas from beans can cause you to feel awful sort of like your having a heart attack if to much of it is trapped in your stomach or chest. Gas seems to accumulate everywhere after eating beans so be prepared to feel miserable unless you have gas pills handy. They are not expensive. They cost about a dollar or two for a box of them.

Well naturally it sounds gross to mention things like gas or flatulence, but that's what beans cause you to have.

Some folks mix a small fraction or amount of a teaspoon of soda in their red beans as they cook them. This helps to reduce gas in them. Personally I do not use soda because I feel it effects the good taste of the beans. Maybe I will do a study to find out the exact amount of soda to use. Better yet maybe I will find out what chefs add to reduce gas in beans.

Beans can be frozen or refrigerated if you desire. As for my wife Jo Ann, she gets really upset when I eat a lot of beans.  When I have gas I do not have time to run to a bathroom like she would like me to. Anyhow I have never known of anyone that has ever taken a special trip to a bathroom simply to deal with gas.

Perhaps such matters should be left for kings or queens,or for wealthy movie stars that have many bathrooms.I also bet King Henry VIII never ran to a bathroom to deal with gas. Henry had his share of really serious health problems that were not funny.

Well there is not a lot I want to say about this subject. All I can suggest is that if your going to cook red beans you may as well go all out and make them as delicious as you can, because there is a that price you will pay for them, if you know what I mean. God Bless Everyone.