Homemade baked beans always bring back memories of my maternal grandmother she baked a large crock full every Friday night and they were always ready with homemade bread every Saturday lunch time. One Saturday back in the 60's I dropped in at lunch time and the Premier of the Province and a Senator were at her kitchen table having baked beans. They didn't impress her anymore than anyone else she fed them beans and bread.

Dear Dale. You know about so many things. You've taught me about so many things as I've watched your older tapes. How wonderful. Thank you for educating me on so mant different levels. Your tapes, while being educational and entertaining, are beautiful and often calming. I have a red greyhound that reminds me of angel. I love when she appears in your clips. I used to raise pidgins, homing and Powders. My mum called the powders ...pantaloons because they were so fancy. I love the angel tapes. I rescue former racing greyhounds. I've had 9. Only 1 left. Thank you for your wonderful tapes. You're wonderful!

When we made fried dough for breakfast we sprinkled cinnamon sugar on it as soon as it came out of the pan - lovely stuff. Thanks for the video.

That is one of my favorite meals. It made me sooo wanting that dish!

so glad i found your videos. really enjoy the sense of peace i get from them. cheers!

I never knew that salt in the cooking process was what caused the dried beans to have a tough texture. Great tip!

Wow you make your own bake beans. Vegetarian as well. Cool man.

Dale. I love your videos, I can imagine how peaceful it must be on a snowy night. Thank you!

I love your cabin cooking videos! Also like the potjie, and look forward to more cabin potjie cooking!

Hi Dale! I just saw this video for the first time today and found it interesting as usual. Around 2001 there was a crow that lived somewhere near where i lived and itt had white wings.....white wings! I have never seen anything like that before or since! Ive had my suet feeder taken away as well and after replacing it caught the culprit of the suet snatching .....and it was a racoon...by caught i mean caught in my flashlight beam!

I love your paradise.It feels so peaceful and beautiful.I long to find my place to settle.I live in the foothills of the Appalachian mtns and it is breat taking here,i just have not found my little secluded area yet.I've been in my mtn home for 12 yrs. and I have learned to grown all kinds of things here.I grow a lot of fruit and veges but I can not have any farm animals,so I won't be staying here forever....I so enjoy your videos.TYFS..

Dale, I was given a "cast iron pot" by a friend clearing out her house. Today I learned it is a potpie. Although I had previously prepared "omnivore" baked beans in a ditch oven, I'll now try your recipe for the vegetarian version. I really enjoyed your relaxed approach to the process and your inclusion of enjoying the wildlife around you. Very soothing! Thank you.

Those beans looked great Dale!

Hey Dale, these videos are so relaxing, I have to build one of these. Keep up the good work.

Your videos are really a treat to watch, Dale. I'm on a quest to build a tiny cabin from recycled materials. You've done a fantastic job on yours, and I continue to watch your videos with great interest!

Cheers Dale, from England ! :) Merry Christmas

Dale, I hope you make more cabin videos this winter. These are my favorites. It's neat to see you cook in there.

Hi Dale, Yummy. Can't wait to cook some.

I've never made baked beans, don't know why, but after seeing yours I have to give it a try. My mom used to make Indian fry bread like yours, very good. I love the potjie :)

hi Dale Calder , my name is Judy just to say i love your videos, what a peaceful life you have. would love to have me a Cabin your life looks to be a happy one. keep the videos coming your food you Cook look's yum. From Chattanooga TN.

Happy Christmas to you too.

Thank you. It is basically any bread dough. Whenever we made bread or rolls some of the dough was saved to fry for breakfast or as a snack. Some people cook it in a deep fryer, that's how it is done in the restaurants but in my family it is always cooked in a cast iron skillet over medium heat in a bit of oil or shortening.

That sounds good, I must give it a try.

Yummy....... I added 1/4 teaspoon of Allspice in my baked beans like my grandma did years ago and they were delish. I forgot about her doing that, could never figure out what taste I was missing and that was it. I love your bean pot. 😀

Thank you and it works really well too.

Ok! I will try this for our dinner one of these nights. We are all sick right now, but I can't wait! We make fried dough when we go camping. We are also vegetarians!

My Grandma and Brother make these beans, they are the best.

It's a size #1 which is a little over 3 quarts.

I really liked the video. I grew up in the Annapolis Valley near Kentville and my family called the fried bread Pan Flappers.

The fried dough food is called "vetkoek" - fat cake- in South Africa. Abd beans in a potjie, wow, A truly South African camping kos (food) in Canada. Best regards from South Africa.

Happy Thanksgiving Dale, I hope you have a blessed day🍁🍁🍁🍁🦃🦃🍽🍽

Hi Dale! enjoyed this vid. Like your bird feeder. If it was my hobbit bird feeder(lol) I would put in clear plastic all around the bird feeder with 2 inch circlular ports on each side. That is to keep other animals eating the seeds out., Have one side to move up or down to put in your seeds. Just saying. PS. It would help keep the snow of the seeds as well. Frank.

I just had 2 beef hotdogs and some 25 year old dry beans from my stash, cooked with some onions in homemade chicken stock. I don`t have a potjie, but I do normally cook supper in cast iron. Some items are cooked in Stainless Steel or porcelain ware. Thank you for the videos. Joe

Thank you very much, that sounds interesting I hope you do videos of the process.

Beans and Indian fry bread in foodie circles would be a comfort food menu. Here in the midwest its called eating 'Low on the Hog' for those so poor they can't afford meat. Low on the Hog can also mean parts not often seen at the butcher: tail, pigs feet, chitlens, head cheese. Also glad to see the Chickadee Check-off paid off in your area. Does anyone remember the chickadee check-off on their tax forms?

My mom used to make fried dough. Think I will give it a try.

I. Hungry watching this

Thank you glad you enjoy the videos and I know you will get hours of enjoyment from the bird feeder .

Looks good. I have a squirrel guard on my feeder. I was thinking of cutting a plastic trash can lid to fit around the 6X6 but the squirrels might just eat through it.

Thanks Gary. The beans did smell great cooking. Yes I seasoned the potjie, had my smoke detector at the house going off LOL. The fried dough "Beaver Tails" looks a lot better if you can brown it nicely but I had let the fire get too low at that point.

I watch your videos before bed. Your voice has a calming effect. My guess you were a school teacher before retirement.

Thank you. If this bird table were just a bit larger it wouldn't be a problem with these small red squirrels and we don't have the large grey and black varieties. The table up at the house is a few inches wider in both directions and the squirrels climb the post but can't reach the edge of the table so they can't get up on the surface.

So yummy!

I liked the local fried bread info...never before seen or heard of that recipe and wondering if also was(or is) popular in partsnof the northern or southern US. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks, they were very good, should have had smell-a-vision the aroma was fantastic.

Thank you. It is only noticeable at a certain time in the morning when the sun hits it just right other than that you can't see it so I will leave well enough alone. I don't think it is the glass that is scratched these are what are called low E windows and they have a special coating that increases the insulation value and I think it is that coating that I scratched.

Am thoroughly enjoying your videos. Brought back many memories of beans, hot dogs and brown bread as a Saturday supper. I was hoping you would have made brown bread, though the fried bread does look good. Do you ever do brown bread? Made in a coffee can? Guess what's on the menu for tomorrow...Saturday...lol I'm not into cooking shows, but I like yours, thank you for sharing! And sharing the birds as well as your cabin.

Mmm, the cooking looks so rustic it must be good. Never heard of this iron pot.

A little bit of baking powder will make the beans really soft and take out the gasses. I cook the beans first and then add other things.

Thank you.

Thank you. This particular brand of vegetarian sausage is quite realistic tastes a lot like a sweet Italian sausage. I built the cabin this summer I will send you the video.

The fried dough looks good.I love unusual things but this throughs a twist into things.Any special recipe?Over the top camp food

Dale, could you give us the proportions for the fried dough? I really would love to try it. Everything looked delicious.

I've never heard of a potjie pot. Where does that originate? I love baked beans. Even eat them with breakfast. Mom's garden apt community new management has banned bird feeders. Can you imagine? She is 90 and housebound and used to get hours of enjoyment watching the birds at the feeder. I cant imagine not feeding our feathered friends. Oh I can almost taste those beans!

I'm always surprised to see salt in the list of ingredients but no instructions about when to add it. The recipe off the internet that I was following for this video even said to use a salt free catsup, which I didn't do, but made no mention of when to add the salt.

Lovely site; so glad to have found you. Thank you for sharing your charming lifestyle and wonderful recipes. In the summertime, how do you contend with the mosquitoes? I was reared in Wisconsin and now live in Southern California which lacks the green scenic beauty of the Midwest, but the dry climate here does not have the hoards of dreadful five-pound mosquitoes that I remember (and miss NOT at ALL :)

Thank you. I've seen youTube try to do something like this several times over the past year but it never lasts more than a few hours so I will wait to see what I think of it. It is starting to fail already, most of the avatars like mine, the photo of the cabin, are already just black boxes. I think my thief likely had 4 legs.

Are you a vegetarian? Who taught you to cook so well? You have a soothing and great voice. You should be a commentator for children's books.

Great video Dale, the food looked great ! Never had a vegetarian sausage though ! Who built the cabin ?

Dale I am enjoying your videos. Thanks for sharing. We have a woodstove and I would like to know where I can purchase a Potjie? Thanks again, Aria

Thanks Steve I love them but have to be careful not to eat them very often. I'm a vegetarian for several reasons one of the main ones being gout which is much easier to control if you don't eat meat, however there are several vegetables that can bring on an attack and of course they are things that I love like nuts and beans.

also Ricky Montgomery's wildlife has a great suet recipe since you enjoy homemade!

I put onion in almost everything LOL. I think my Mother used to put a whole onion, just peeled, in her beans.

New sub here. Been enjoying your cooking and cabin videos. Is the cabin built out in the woods somewhere or on your property near your main house. You said you went home for lunch so it's got me curious. I probably should find some of your older videos.

another wonderful video .I have always wondered how to make homemade baked bean wow .thank you Dale .I will this .God bless you and Angel. p.s. not to be noisy Dale .but my Grandmother who is deceased now God rest her soul.came from Nova Scotia .and the last name was bisset.have you ever heard of that name .or known anybody with that last name .My family has been trying to locate anyone who would be related to us from Nova Scotia .

What else have you made in the potjie? I like the idea of it but I'm not sure I would use it very often. I find I don't cook much since it is only me here to feed. I have a hard time eating the same thing over and over. Do you freeze much that you make when you make a large portion? Just curious.

Dale, What are the temps on the island in June, July, and August? Also, what is the humidity like?

Is the sausage Morning Star ? That is the brand I've been eating for about 40 years !!!!

Dale where did you get hold of your potjie for it may be a very specific South Africa cooking vessel albeit with the 3 legs. I make potjies all the time and I am also experimenting with different traditions from elsewhere in the world. Something I also love to combine dough in top of the potjie on top of the food. That is called "Domboy" and it is delicious.

I hope that you don't mind me making a suggestion...just one. Pick up some wooden spoons for your cooking. But here it is 1:00 a.m. and my belly is rumbling and wanting baked beans.

You can cook your beans in pressure cooker for exactly maximum 3 minutes. That's easier and save gas and wood.

Dale, please post your bird videos to your site or on many other bird sites, they would be appreciatedby many

Do you have bear and deer there? Also, you food looks really good. I'll be right there from Utah.

Dale who taught you the term potjiekos? Its a huge thing in South Africa. Although I now live in Australia I was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Dinner looks good!...1st vid on KZfaqs new format that I've watched, what do U think of it? & ya U can't leave anything laying around anymore(stolen feeder)...here theives rifle through an unlocked car faster than U can eat ur dinner...Adubb :))

No it's Gimme Lean, which I have always thought is a play on Jimmy Dean sausage meat.

Thank you. I made a video a while back and called them Beaver Tails and got threatened with a law suit by the people who own the brand name, I wonder if the poor beaver knows that someone has a copy right on his tail. I'm sure I could do the same with my Chick-A-Dees they are fearless. I often stand at the feeder and talk to them after I put out fresh seed.

Oops, I guess this is an older video, lol

Dale....I searched Amazon...Cannot fine your Potje Pot. Does yours have legs? And I did not find any pots on Amazon that is like YOURS. Can you please give me the Name on your Pot. I do WANT A POTJIE POT like yours. Thanks again, Aria

Dale, your table birds appear very nervous are you pestered by hawks ?...in England where I am ,they are a menace and have decimated our song birds and finches .The European sparrow hawk population has exploded over the last 10yrs ,and is protected .the result has been detrimental to our small bird population to a astonishing degree.

Dale, your wife is going to make you spend the next 3 nights in the cabin after eating those beans. He he he............Just kidding. Leslie Ann