Homemade Baked Beans recipe

If you're seeing for a good "homemade baked beans recipe" recipe - this is the place! everybody loves some good baked beans, but most recipes call for them to be in a crockpot. Mine doesn't, instead I use can beans and cook them on the stove top. It's true, you could just buy a fancy can of Bush's baked beans, but it's just not the same as manufacture your own homemade baked beans and letting them simmer of the stove as the flavors meld together! These are equally as good in the summer with a Bbq as they are in the winter on a cold blistery day!

• 3 cans great northern or navy beans, or 1 - 48oz jar or Randall's mixed beans (drained)
• 1 small onion (diced)
• 2 cloves garlic (diced)
• 1 cup barbeque sauce
• 1/2 cup ketchup
• 1 Tablespoon mustard
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 3-4 strips of chopped cooked bacon (if you like)

Bake Pan

Drain each can of beans and pour into a sauce pan. Add all other ingredients and cook on medium high heat until it boils, then cover and reduce to low heat and simmer for one hour. If you're in a real hurry, you can cook on high for 10 minutes and serve (it just won't taste as good!).

In the winter time you can cook this on the stove and let it simmer while manufacture the main dish, but in the summer I like to just put the pot on the grill and let the beans simmer while I grill my meat. By the time the meat is done, the beans are commonly done shortly after. There are all kinds of beans you can experiment with on this recipe as well, I commonly end up using what I have on hand at the time. So I may use Pinto beans, Chili Beans, Mexican Beans - and even though you're manufacture "homemade beans" it doesn't mean that you can't use any leftovers that you may have around. For instance, if I grill out and have left over burgers and beans, the next day I may chop up the leftover cooked burgers and thrown them in the beans and simmer for 20-30 minutes and eat! I've used thrown in leftover taco meat, sloppy joe, and even chicken. Technically that makes the "homemade baked beans" more like a chili - but it's ok to convert it up a bit! an additional one thing that's fun with this recipe is to add some cubed cheese of any kind just minutes before it's done. That melted cheese can make it a big hit with everybody in the house!

Homemade Baked Beans recipe

Zucchini Baking Recipes

It always seems like if you plant even one zucchini plant, you have sufficient zucchini to feed a very large family plus the neighbors. So, of course, there is then the examine of what to do with all of that zucchini. It always amazes me that zucchini can taste so good in baked goods. Hope you enjoy these two baking recipes for zucchini!

Zucchini Granola Cookies

Bake Pan

3/4 cup butter or margarine (softened)
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
grated rind of 1 orange
3 cups grated, unpeeled zucchini
3 to 3 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup butterscotch or chocolate chips
3 cups granola cereal

In a large bowl, mix together the butter and sugar. Mix in the egg, vanilla, orange rind, and zucchini. Add in the flour and baking soda. Mix in the granola cereal. Then mix in the butterscotch or chocolate chips. Grease a cookie sheet and put teaspoonfuls of the dough onto the sheet. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 12 to 15 minutes.

Chocolate Zucchini Bread

1 cup brown sugar
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup oil
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup buttermilk
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
5 tablespoons cocoa
2 1/2 cups grated zucchini
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)

In a large bowl, mix the sugars, oil, and margarine together. Add the egg into the blend one at a time. Mix in the buttermilk and vanilla. In a small bowl, sift together the flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, and cocoa. Add in the zucchini and dry blend by alternating. Add in the chocolate chips, raisins, and nuts. Grease a 9x13-inch pan and pour the batter into it. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 1 hour.

Zucchini Baking Recipes