**FREEPER KITCHEN PING**
Can I get in on the kitchen ping list?
Wow, fun, thanks ...
Oh, fun. Sorry if this is a dupe, but here’s one:
BBQ-ed Baked Beans
a la my mom
two of the 31 oz. can Van Camp’s pork-n-beans, drained
(or just buy a 53 oz. can)
1/2 c. ketchup
2 T. mustard
1/2 c. brown sugar
one whole onion, chopped up
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bacon strips or lit’l smokies cocktail sausages to place across top
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Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Mix all ingredients except bacon/lit’l smokies and place in 9x13 oblong pan, glass or aluminum. Place strips of bacon or lit’l smokies across the top. Bake for one hour
Cucumber Salad
a la my mom
3 cukes, sliced
1 c. onions, sliced and roughly chopped
optional, 1 t. celery seeds
1 T. salt
1/2 c. distilled vinegar
3/4 c. sugar
Place all ingredients in a bowl. Toss. Cover w/ plastic wrap, refrigerate. Serve cold. Stores well in fridge for a couple weeks.
Hint for making potato salad:
Cook the potatoes a day ahead. Set them in a big bowl when they are still piping hot and dump a whole bottle of Wishbone Italian Dressing on them. Cover with plastic wrap and set in fridge for 12 to 24 hours. Then follow your usual potato salad recipe by adding hard cooked eggs, chopped onions, etc. EXCEPT don’t add any mayo. Just toss on more Italian dressing. People will love it. One other thing the women in my family have done is put dill pickle juice on the potatoes ahead of time ... not only my mom, my grandma did that too.
Tasty Ground Pork
1 onion, sliced and chopped
4 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
1 pound ground pork
1/3 c. soy sauce or Bragg’s aminos
1/2 c. rice vinegar
2 T. sugar
optional, Chinese five spice to taste
In skillet, heat up a small amount of olive oil, add onion and crushed garlic, sauté for a couple minutes. Add the pork and continue browning. When thoroughly cooked, add the soy sauce or Bragg’s aminos and the vinegar, and the sugar, and optional Chinese five spice. Let cook over very low heat till bubbling, add a small amt. of water if necessary.
Serve with rice.