Baked Beans - The multifunctional side dish

Beans Beans Beans.....

 

Some people love 'em,

Others hate 'em

I'm a lover.....with exception

They have to be doctored up and baked low and slow

So here is what you're gonna do:
Pre-heat the oven to 350*
(Full Recipe Below)

 

I start off with Campbells Pork & Beans

Just open them up and dump them into a pyrex

Then dice up an onion

Next, squirt on some ketchup & mustard
*I sometimes use dry mustard*

After than, sprinkle on a liberal amount of brown sugar (light or dark)

After all the "ingredients" are in the pyrex, stir stir stir!!

Place in pre-heated oven for 1 hour or until edges begin to brown and the bean mix is all bubbly and gooey and delicious looking!
Remove from oven and let stand about 5-7 minutes




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Serve these right from the Pyrex dish!

My apologies for the google images - I wasn't planning on blogging this, so I didn't take pictures the night I made them. Google to the rescue.

So here is the Full Recipe:

INGREDIENTS:

3-4 cans of Campbell's Baked Beans

1 medium onion, diced

1/4 cup of ketchup

3 Tablespoons mustard

1 cup brown sugar

DIRECTIONS:

Pre-heat oven to 350*

Pour beans into a medium pyrex dish. Add the diced onion, ketchup, mustard and brown sugar. Stir and incorporate well. Place in preheated oven uncovered for an hour to an hour and a half. Let stand before serving.

 

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I make baked beans all summer long.

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I pair it with scalloped potatoes and ham

I keep it simple with hot dogs and tater tots

They are a great side to bring to a picnic

(After you bake them, pour into a crock pot to keep warm)

You can add things to it like bacon, jalapenos, or pieces of ham

 

All together, it really jazzes up a can of beans and makes a delicious side.

 

I hope this changed your mind if you were a hater, and you give it a try!

 

Stop by tomorrow for Friday Favorites!!

 

~Tiffany~

 

What's Cookin' Wednesday

Crock Pot Beef Stew

This recipe is originally from something I saw on Pinterest

But, I altered it a tiny bit and it is seriously amazing.

Pinterest photo - I was too sick to remember to snap a pic!

 

I'm not typically a fan of stew of any type, but this was delicious!

Hubby loved it, I loved it and my mom loved it!

I will definitely be making this again.

 

So here it is:

 

What You Need:

2 pounds beef ( I used London broil)

½ cup flour

1 tablespoon seasoning salt

2 tablespoons olive oil

½ teaspoon black pepper

1 large onion, diced

2 bay leaves

¼ cup Worcestershire sauce

2 cups water

3-4 Beef Bouillon cubes, crumbled up

4 medium to large red skinned potatoes, washed & diced

3 large carrots, peeled & sliced

1 stalk celery, diced

 

What You Do:

If you didn't buy the meat that is pre-chunked up, cut your steak pieces to your size liking.  In a zip lock bag, add the flour & seasoning salt. 

Throw in your beef and shake it up until it's coated.

Heat the olive oil in a skillet & add the floured stew meat to the pan.

Brown on all sides.

Remove using a slotted spoon or tongs & place into the bottom of your crock pot.

Season with pepper (The seasoned salt gives you that salt element, so just use pepper)

Saute the diced onion in the same hot skillet for 2 minutes.
Don't worry about cleaning it out in between - that's added flavor!
Transfer the onions into the slow cooker as well.
Pour the Worcestershire, water, & crumbled up beef bouillon into the skillet and whisk until mixed, making sure you scrape up any browned bits in the bottom of the pan.
Turn off heat & set aside for a minute.

Add the diced potatoes, carrots, celery, & bay leaves to the slowcooker.
Pour the broth mixture in the crockpot as well.
Cover; cook on low for 8 hours.
If the sauce isn't thick enough, make a slury of 1 TBSP of corn starch and 2 TBSP warm broth from the crock pot and mix up well, then pour in and stir around a bit.
Remove the bay leaves before serving.
Enjoy!

I know it's not entirely crock pot because of the searing and sautéing and what not, but give yourself a little extra time to do this and then dump everything in and crank that baby for 8 hours on low. It's delicious.


I'm going to post about my baked beans tomorrow...
Check  back in with me then !

~Tiffany~

 

Show & Tell Tuesday

 

What's In a Name!?

 

 Linking up with Andrea for this post...

Since I don't have any babies yet... I'm going to share how I got MY name, as well as how I named my pets AND - what I plan to name my future kids :)

 

 

My mom named me after a soap opera she watched when she was pregnant with me.

My dad wanted to name me Naomi - but my mom quickly veto'd that.

My middle name is after my moms mother.

Pretty simple and to the point.

 

I've had several cats and a few dogs throughout my life thus far...

 

Dog named Digger - because he dug holes in the yard all the time

 

Dog named Muffy - named her after my "Muffy" teddy bear

 

I had cats by the name of: Mylo, Kahlua, Scruffy, Crusty, Moony, Midnight, Roger, Cliff, Black & White, Peanut, Pumpkin...
*The last 4 my mom still has*

 

I had a dog with my ex named Butch, but he named him before I was in the picture.

Another dog with the ex I named Dixie.

Her name was Rose at the shelter, but Rose was most definitely NOT her name.

She is Dixie. I wanted a boy to name Toby after Toby Keith, but we got a girl puppy instead.

Dixie is the name of the daughter of Toby Keith in the movie "Broken Bridges"

That's how she got her name :)

 

Dixie on the left Butch on the right

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Currently I have 2 cats a dog and a snake...

Our dog is named Jake - he was around before me, but his name was "Jacob" at the shelter.

Ted said Jacob was too formal so he made it Jake instead.

We often call him Jakey Boy or Bubba

And of course a bunch of random nonsense names like stink butt, puppy butt, bubby, lovey, boogie head, mommys stinker...etc.

 

Our snake is Tyler - He's a ball python, about 3 feet long

Ted got him when he was 15 so his name was picked out long before me.

Ted named him after Steven Tyler from Aerosmith though

I believe he said it looks like his spots on his skin say Ty somewhere...

I can't find a pic of him.... but he basically looks like this:

 

 

The two cats had their names before we got them as well.

 

Lilly was a little abandoned pregnant mess that I took in.

Her name fit her well so I didn't change it.
We call her Lilly Mama or Big Mama (for obvious reasons)

 

 

Tessa had her name in the PetSmart window when I first saw her and fell in love with her.

They asked when we adopted her if we were going to change her name....

I said no. She was a year and a half old. She knew her name by now.

So Tessa stuck.

We call her Tessa Mama or little mama

 

As for kids.... I've known for a while that I wanted my sons middle name to be after my dad.

Even before he passed away.

I had a discussion with him once about how I'd make his name my sons middle name.

His name is Francis (Frank) He was Frank the 3rd

My brother is the 4th and his son is the 5th

I told my dad I'd make Francis my sons middle name and he said, "No one calls me that, make it Frank instead" so Frank it will be.

As for the first name... Austin after Austin Healey

Austin Healey's are the little cars we have

So that's our plan...and Ted loves it

 

As for a girl.....that is to be determined...

It's crazy that as a parent, you get to choose a persons NAME!

So we will definitely give it a lot of thought when the time comes!!

 

 

 

See you tomorrow for What's Cookin' Wednesday!

*Crock Pot Stew*

&

Easy Peasy baked beans

 

 

~Tiffany~