I think I mentioned Khoja cuisine at some point somewhere. The Khoja home cooking of 2 Ismaili friends’ moms is the best Indian home cooking I’ve had. Best samosas and best Biryani I’ve had. One of the moms set her daughter up with a semester’s worth of Frozen home-made food while we were in law school.
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Ah! I thought it might seem like something I’d heard! Do they use pork? How about pork with coconut? Cured pork with coconut? Something seems counterintuitive.
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From the Serious Eats article:
" Khoja Ismailis are a sub-sect of Ismailis, the second-largest sect of Shia Islam…"
So, probably not pork. Reading further in the article, other meat and fish would be a yes, paya (goat trotters) for example.
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Thanks all!
I thought the first link went to the recipe but it didn’t. Here’s a jump to the recipe.
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Ismailis wouldn’t traditionally use pork in their cooking.
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I have been making these, and omitting the bacon. I also increase the amount of vinegar to at least one tablespoon from 1 teaspoon.
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/brown-sugar-baked-beans-3373383
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Have been periodically looking for a new baked bean recipe. Will out this on my list. Thanks.
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Interesting! This is similar in some ways to my Mother’s recipe for Cowboy Beans, but she used 3 to 5 types of canned beans, whatever she had in the pantry, it seemed. Plus more bacon and a pound or two of hamburger and either bbq sauce or Tabasco, depending on who was in the kitchen w her when she made it.
It was meant to feed ranch hands after branding or loading bails of hay back when that was done by hand.
Loved that dish!
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Cowboy beans are so popular in southern Saskatchewan (understandably, since they’re your neighbors!) and in Alberta, especially during Stampede. I ate them a lot when I was out west. When I organized a family reunion in Alberta 20 years ago, the guest ranch served cowboy beans at each meal. 
I’ll post some cowboy beans recipes from my Sask community cookbooks after I take my dogs out.
From a 1998 community cookbook. This is an old family friend’s recipe.
Same family, different relative, from a 1973 cookbook
From a 1980s Bruce Peninsula Ontario community cookbook
Green Grove (SK)Ukrainian Orthodox Camp cookbook
My aunt would make a huge batch to drop them off for suppers at the community hall when they’re would be a party.
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Mushrooms sound good!
Green beans? Not so sure.
I added canned corn and liked it but my brother did not like it.
Celery works too.
I think the bacon, brown sugar, vinegar and Worcestershire sauce are critical elements.
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I agree. Although, I make them without bacon as a side dish and they’re pretty good without it
I wouldn’t add green beans or Lima beans.
Interesting to me to see some of these old recipes.
These are from a Newfie cookbook
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Looks like at least in Saskatchewan they believe in the power of ham hocks.
Is there a hog growing region/province of Canada?
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Once a year I buy a ham bone from Honeybaked Hams and make bean soup. I ask for the meatiest one. (This year, it was not much meat!)
I buy one of their bean soup packets. New packaging, not see through like before and only 2 choices, Split Pea or Navy Bean. (In prior years I’d buy a bean mixture.)
So bought one Navy Bean ($8) and I had a package of dried navy beans at home that I soaked overnight. I sautéed chopped onions, then a generous amount of garlic, leeks, carrots, celery, fresh thyme, bay leaves, crushed red pepper.
Smells and tastes divine, sharing with my neighbor, I’ll freeze some.
No photo cause not very photogenic.
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White chicken chili, …again
These soaked cannellini beans were ready less than 10 minutes hard boil+ 20 minutes simmer. The hard boil was recommended in the beans book “Cool Beans”, as “this helps make sure to get rid of some of the so-called anti-nutrients such as lectins (see note)”.
Also, I was frustrated that my market had no bone in skin on chicken breasts, but they had a digital coupon for whole chickens at $.88/pound.
I broke two chickens down, bagged breasts in two bags to sous vide, dark meat in another, backs and bits in a fourth, only to find out my vacuum sealer had quit.
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Lots of hogs are raised here in southwestern Ontario. I’d think southwestern Ontario raises the most. There are tons of pig farms.
( I would be wrong. Manitoba raises the most pigs
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1035834/number-of-hog-pig-farming-businesses-by-region-canada/ )
Toronto is sometimes still called Hogtown
They’re raised across the whole country.
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I hope you bought it at Costco, their return policy is great. You don’t even need the receipt, they can look it up from your card. Once my food saver had a problem. I returned it and got the latest model. No problems since.
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Thank you! It’s Anovo, probably about 9 years old. I think I got it with an immersion circulator, and not from Costco . Fortunately I had another one. I bought another one today, that claims to handle some liquids. On sale at Walmart.
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My neighbor got lots of soup + the ham bone to make jook. We thought there was still a lot of flavor left in it.
I’ve been giving her this soup once a year; somehow she didn’t realize until today that you could just buy their meaty bones for soup.
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