"Cowboy chow" or whatever you want to call them... a beloved child has many names.

So while this is not SPECIFICALLY weapons-related, you all know that when you go out there, some for of pork-and-beans will become extremely important rather quickly. They have several forms of them as military MRE's and such.
So in this thread, we share our recipes for dem good-old-cowboy beans.

1) Get the main ingridients: A can of spam, a can on beans in a tomato sauce, a single middle-sized onion.
2) get the additional ingredients: you can also get other ingredients like celery, choppped carrots, canned corn, chili, basil, thyme and such. This recipe will allow multiple varieties and spicing options.
2) Chop onions into cubes. How big? as big or as small as you like.
2) Chops some spam (and other ingredients) into cubes as you like.
3) throw a button of butter on a hot pan.
4) throw in the onions, the cubed spam, the can of beans.
5) throw in whatever spices/extras you have planned.

6) let it brew for about 5-10 minutes. Mix every now and then.

7) you now have your basic bitch "cowboy chow". Eat it as is, or (preferrably) with some kind of bread. Corn bread is a classic choise for cowboy-theme, but can be switched to whatever kind of bread you have at hand.

So... What are YOUR cowboy chow memories? Do you have a particular recipe? When you are "out there" what will you eat, when it's time to make a camp and start cooking something on a campfire?