Beans and Cornbread

I don't cook. I panic when I cook. My wonderful husband does most of the cooking.

But Pioneer Woman (a blog I'm addicted to) has been inspiring me. Tonight, I decided to make a recipe from her cooking blog....beans. They look so good in her pictures. http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/08/beans_and_cornb/

I'm into it 2 hours on what I thought was simmer. But maybe it was too low, cuz it certainly doesn't look like PWs. Looks like I put too much water in also, though I measured the water above the beans. Just an itty bit over 2 inches. (How my husband would laugh; he never measures anything...grrrr!)

Ok, my husband just told me a simmer is a wee baby boil (my words). I had the burner on low....no wonder....they still have a ways to go. Hope they'll be ok after hours and hours of cooking.

Told you I'm not a cook.

But I promise to keep trying.

P.S. The cornbread turned out yummy. It's the recipe on the Bob's Red Mill cornmeal pkg.