Easy Cowboy Skillet - Feed A Crowd For Cheap

Lovely Dean shared his recipe for an inexpensive cowboy skillet, so let's make it!

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:16 Sponsorship.
2:18 What are we making?
3:02 Dean's recorded recipe.
3:20 The canned beans we'll be using.
3:34 The most expensive ingredient.
3:57 The vegetables.
4:35 Prepping the ingredients.
7:08 Cooking everything up.
9:45 Taste test.

Music courtesy of Audio Network and 'Sprightly' from iMovie. You've made it to the end -- welcome! Comment: "Beans the magical fruit!"

[emmymade]

What's your go-to budget meal? A: Rice cooked crispy topped with a fried egg.

[mgratk]

I think he meant kidney beans with chili seasoning, BUT it is evident it works great with a can of beef chili with beans too. There are a million ways to alter that basic idea, and most of those are probably fantastic.

[Del-jixr]

I'm a 64 year old man, live alone, and I enjoy watching Emmy cook up amazing grub. Very cool women.

[arrived]

I made this Cowboy Stew today for me and the wife. It was easy and filling. Full of flavour too, and satisfying too. Thank you

[Genxerlovinlife]

Thank you, Emmy, for sharing these types of recipes. There are way too many of us out here now struggling to feed our families. Realistic recipes like this can truly help a lot of people! This is the type of thing that you can change up and add what you have, too.

[daniellepeters]

Emmy, you never fail to make me smile! I watch and listen to your soothing voice, and "relax" ... my husband is in assisted living with dementia and it's breaking my heart. Your videos make me feel like I'm visiting a good friend.

[COMIXMAN]

Mom used to make something similar. She used cans of baked beans, fried kielbasa or smoked sausage, diced yellow onions. She would make garlic toast on the side. It was simple, cheap, easy and filling. I used to joke to my British friends on the online game I played that I liked beans and toast also. I told them how to make it and a lot of them liked it. If my mom ever made it and had taters she'd slice em and make fried taters on the side.

[ushere]

chili beans are, in fact, beans (as the name suggests). they are beans that are seasoned like chili, and they are quite delicious. :)

[woodstream]

Mom makes something similar she calls smokey-po, is basically smoked sausage, potatoes, diced onion, green beans. Tried to look it up and it may also be called Hoosier stew. Never had it as a kid. Moved her in now that she's older and was thrilled to eat it.

[tjs]

Just a heads up on Emmy's Helix Sleep sponsorship. Helix mattresses were pretty good prior to the purchase of the company by Cerberus Capital Management who also bought Brooklyn Bedding at the same time and consolidated them into 3z and all the mattresses they sell are now made in the Brooklyn Bedding factory in Arizona. The Helix mattresses did not benefit from this merger.

In case you are wondering who Cerberus is, they're a company that buys up failing companies, guts them and resells the remains. You may remember them as the ones that bought Chrysler after Daimler Benz withdrew from their merger. Cerberus was the company that said they wouldn't honor any Dodge/Jeep/Ram/Chrysler/Mopar warranties from prior to their purchase since they were the "new" Chrysler.

[BuffytheRealSlayer]

I was just looking up bean recipes yesterday as my job cut my hours, so money is REALLY tight. This recipe would be such a great thing to take to work for my lunch. Thank you, Dean, for sending in the recipes and to you, Emmy, for making it.

[goldieravenouseats]

Emmy, HI!
I always watch your videos when I'm needing a little comfort. I can't explain it you just feel like a safe person❤

[RedHeadedTsunami]

Hey, Emmymade! Love your channel. Just a note about those spikes on the underside of the lid - They can hold a big hunk of meat for you while you shred it it after you cook it in the Dutch Oven. If you are strong, you can hold with a potholder on your hand so the lid rim is over the pot then shred some off the huge hunk or take cuts out and pull them through the spikes with a fork to shred, then scoot that into the pot. If you need to, you can set the lid upside down on a nest of towels and shred with both hands, taking what you shred back into the hot pot. Then, you can stir it into the soup, stew, or juices, adding sauce as you like. Just another tricky feature the cast iron folks built in! I hope this is fun and functional for you!

[robylove]

Beans the magical fruit! I'm sure the chilli was delicious in this recipe. Chili beans are beans containing chili powder. For the same cost, you made the recipe better! Thanks, Emmy ❤

[marialacona]

In Mexico we have our version of this, but instead of chili beans and sausage, we add chorizo, freshly cooked beans and tomatoes too, at the end so they don’t overcook. We eat this with bolillo bread or tortillas of course 😚🤌🏻

[moirasimmerson]

My dad told us that during the depre😢ssion they only occasionally had dessert. They were allowed to pick a leaf of lettuce, sprinkle it with a little sugar, roll it up and eat. 7:02 ssion

[radioactivebabushka]

I was just binging your older Hard Times meals. These are my favorite cooking videos! You do them so well. Thank you Emmy :))

[jej]

I love beans in my chili! I often add several types to a can or two of chili. I like the idea of the baked beans in this dish, add some cornbread and dinner is ready! And Bonus Points to you for mentioning brown bread!! My mom is from Providence and we always had it growing up in Miami. 💙

[Sam_T]

I inevitability make a variation of this about once a month to use up the food in my fridge that’s about to go bad… those are my favorite sorts of recipes 👍

[DavidBDMyers]

one thing I learned from years of eating green peppers, was that I love four small green peppers, over one big green pepper because the smaller green pepper has a much better skin to flesh ratio.give it a try and hope it helps. the chew is less but the flavor is sweeter.