Beans. Pinto Beans.

Cooked up a small bag of pinto beans for bean dip. Recipe: soak the beans overnight. Rinse, add a few cloves of garlic, some salt, and cover with about an inch of water. Cook on high in the crock pot all day. Smash beans with a potato masher. Add seasonings - it's up to you. I like red pepper flakes, salt, Tobasco sauce. Stir in some sour cream before serving.

Pinto Beans into Bean Dip

A small bag of pinto beans simmered in the crock pot today, along with minced garlic, salt and red pepper flakes. This is a bean dip I plan to use for a seven-layer dip. Directions: rinse and pick through the pinto beans. Cover with about one inch of water. Cook on "high" in the crock pot for 6 hours. Check moisture and add chicken broth, if needed. Cover and cook another 2 hours. Adjust seasonings and use a potato masher to squish the beans. Use as a dip, or a substitute for "refried beans" in any taco or burrito recipe.