Barbie's Favorite Chili

BEANS:

2 cups dry beans (red kidney are favorite but I think this time I used soldier)

½ cup sugar

½ ketchup

¼ cup molasses

2 tsp. dry mustard

½ cup chopped onion

¼ lb. salt pork

Salt and pepper.

Soak beans overnight, drain, rinse, and put in crock pot with just enough water to cover.  Add ingredients and cook on high for 3 hours, turn down to low and cook 5-6 more hours.

CHILI

1¼ lb. ground beef

1 pkg. hot sausage links, removed from casing

1 lg. can diced tomatoes (I used roasted red pepper)

1 cup tomato sauce

1 lg. green pepper, diced (didn’t have green pepper so used 5 jalapeno’s from garden)

1 onion, chopped

2 tbsp. minced garlic

2 tbsp. chili powder

1-2 tsp. cayenne pepper

1 tbsp. black pepper

1 tbsp. basil

1 tsp. celery salt

1 tbsp. paprika

Cook burger and sausage and drain off grease. Add onions, garlic and green pepper and cook until aromatic. Add tomatoes, tomato sauce, spices and beans. Simmer on medium heat, stir often, 1-2 hours.

Great chili bowls, taco salads, burrito’s, nachos. 

Crock Pot Baked Beans

Crock Pot Beans

Saturday is beans, bath and tail day in this house. In the summer time it’s just too hot to have the oven on all day, so these crock pot beans are a real treat. And easy.  You can use any kind of bean you like.

2 cups dry beans

(I used Soldier this time.) Cover with water and let stand overnight. Next morning, drain, rinse and place beans back in crock pot. Add enough water to just barely cover beans.

½ cup sugar

½ ketchup

¼ cup molasses

2 tsp. dry mustard

1 tsp. liquid smoke

½ cup chopped onion

¼ lb. salt pork

Salt and pepper.

Combine all ingredients in crock pot and stir gently. Turn on high for three hours. Do not remove cover. After three hours, turn to low. Do not remove cover. After 4-4½ hours cooking time, remove cover and stir.  Return cover, cook 3-4 more hours.

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