Easy Baked Beans

These easy baked beans came together quickly. This can be made with almost any white bean. I commonly use navy, great northern or small white beans (used great northern). I made minor adjustments to Madeline’s original handwritten recipe.

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Cowboy Beans Recipe

Cowboy Beans

Homemade smoked bacon is a staple at our house, but we find that there’s a lot of awkward end pieces left over. We decided to chop these pieces for baked beans, which works perfect. If you don’t have large bacon pieces, just use thick sliced bacon and chop. We also use our homemade basic barbeque sauce…

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Peach Margaritas

For blending drinks, I use a Ninja blender, which I love. It has a six-blade assembly that crushes ice faster and blends ingredients smoother than any other blender I’ve tried. For squeezing juice, I prefer a hand-held citrus press.

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Basic Barbecue Sauce

Basic Barbeque Sauce

This is our go to barbeque sauce, and we just about always have it on hand. But if need be, our kitchen is stocked with all ingredients, so that we can quickly put a batch together. We have not purchased a store brand barbeque sauce in years, since this sauce is the best we’ve tasted.Adapted…

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Paella

Paella

A paella pan is needed for this recipe. We purchased an outdoor propane system with pan from the Spanish Table in Seattle.

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