chuckwagon beans + rice

We ate my last prepared-for dinner last night. Tonight became "What can we make from the pantry?" night. Our friends spent the entire day in medical consultations while I watched their kids, so I knew dinner had to be substantial enough to feed twelve. Pinto beans called to me. Simple pinto beans with some molasses, a few spices and onion. It was missing something, though and I added some Frank's Red Hot, but that didn't do it. I couldn't quite place it until much too late: bacon. I bought an "ends and pieces" box of bacon for random flavoring and I forgot to use it tonight. Tonight was not high on the dinner excitement scale.