Instructions: You can add these to taste. When the beans are ready heat a large frying pan add bacon grease - about 1/4 to 1/2 cup. Add beans and liquid. Using your hand potato masher, mash the beans until they are smooth. If you like them spicy, you can add hot peppers.

[] I (Spike) have noticed that Mexican people are extremely frugal with regard to food, and they can make a meal with almost nothing. They plop most anything onto a tortilla or add to a burrito, and it is delicious and satisfying. When our Mexican friends have dinner with us, no matter what I have prepared, they go to the fridge and look for tortillas. Zap them for a few minutes, and enjoy them plain or with any gravy, sauce, or liquid there may be with the food I have prepared. I seldom fix Mexican food because I have little facility with the use of hot spices.

Perhaps Ill learn, some day! I have also noticed that Mexican people seem to be very polite and kind - at least those I have contacted. I never met any bandidos! []

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