BBBB: Best Baked Beans w/ Bacon

I got this original recipe from thepioneerwoman.com. These are incredible, simple, and so delicious! You will never make any other baked beans, again. I mixed it up a little bit. I used peppered bacon, spicy Oklahoma Joe's BBQ sauce, and spicy mustard.

Ingredients

8 slices o' bacon, halved

1 medium-small onion, diced

1 small green bell pepper, diced

3 cans of baked beans

3/4 cup BBQ sauce, I used Night of the Living Dead (OK Joe's)

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup apple cider vinegar

2 tbs. spicy mustard and/or Dijon mustard

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees

2. Cook up the bacon halves, about 3/4 the way, just until it's slightly cooked and a little pink. Place on paper towels to drain grease.

3. DO NOT throw out the bacon fat in the pan... saute the onion and pepper in it, until tender. 5 minutes.

4. While the veggies cook, make the sauce- whisk the BBQ sauce, brown sugar, apple cider vinegar, and mustard in a bowl and set aside.

5. Open all of the beans (Undrained) and add to the saute pan. Now, add the sauce mixture and stir until combined.

6. Finally, spray a 9x13 pan, and pour the beans in the dish. Carefully, put the bacon strips on top and cover w/ foil. Bake for 2 hours, until they are thick and bubbly.

Enjoy!

Jalapeño Cornbread Casserole

This is the perfect side dish to those pulled pork sands :)

Ingredients

1 can of creamed corn

1 can of regular corn

1 cup of sour cream

1 stick o' butter

1 jalapeño, diced (keep the seeds for heat, ditch them if you don't like it spicy)!

1 box of Jiffy cornbread mix

1 egg

S&P taste and cheese if you want...

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Chop up the jalapeño, and saute with the butter.

3. Mix all other ingredients and whisk together. Add the butter and jalapeño, S&P, and cheese if you want. (Mix).

4. Pour into a greased/ungreased (there's so much butter, you won't need it) 9x13 pan and put in the oven for 45 min to an hour, until a knife comes clean!!

Thank you, G-ma for this recipe... we kicked it up with the jalapeño and cheese.