Cooking with Hank – Oops, I Sat on Dinner

RICHLAND CENTER, Wis (WRCO Entertainment) – Welcome to cooking with Hank. Do you have the hunger? Are you a hungry cowpoke or a delicate city folk? It just doesn’t matter; Hank can feed you!

Cowpoke Can o’ Beans Surprise

(Also known as “Oops, I Sat on Dinner”)

Ingredients:

• 1 can o’ baked beans (preferably not already exploded in yer saddlebag)
• 1 raw onion (or a wild one you wrestled from the prairie)
• 1 hunk o’ smoked sausage or jerky stick (whatever’s not already gnawed on)
• A splash of whiskey (optional but highly encouraged)
• Dash of dirt (adds authenticity)
• A rusty horseshoe for stirrin’ (sanitation optional)
• Salt, pepper, and a whole lotta bad decisions

Directions:

1. Build a fire like a real cowboy—but if yer eyebrows go up in smoke, you’re too close.
2. Throw the can of beans (unopened) straight into the fire. Yell, “YEE-HAW!” for no reason.
3. Wait ten minutes or until you hear a loud pop. That means it’s ready… or the can’s now part of the Milky Way.
4. If the can survived, remove it with yer trusty boot or burnt stick. Don’t use yer hand unless you like screamin’.
5. Chop up the onion with your pocketknife (wipe it off first if you used it to scrape boot gunk).
6. Slice the sausage or jerky and toss it into the beans.
7. Add a splash of whiskey, but only after takin’ a swig yerself for “quality control.”
8. Stir with the horseshoe, grunt like a prospector, and serve right from the can.
9. Eat while starin’ into the fire, sayin’ deep cowboy stuff like, “Beans is proof the Lord has a sense o’ humor.”

Serves: One hungry cowpoke or two delicate city folks

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