Baked Beans

I could eat baked beans with every meal. My mom always made them when we would have a cookout. My favorite part was and still is the crispy brown sugar coated bacon on top of the yummy baked beans.    I was asked by Foodbuzz to come up with a recipe featuring bacon for their BACONALIA and this one came to mind.I hope you give this a try the next time your family has a cookout.

 This is What’s Cookin on Beaty’s Creek.

Needed:
5 cans Pork and Beans
1-cup brown sugar
½ cup molasses
1-cup Head and Country Barbeque sauce
1 onion cut in quarters
1-pound bacon

Mix beans, brown sugar, molasses, and barbeque sauce very well. Now pour into a large caste iron skillet. Place onion and bacon on top of beans and place in a 350’ oven for 1-½ hours.

Quick Pickles

This a favorite around here. I used all garden produce but this is just as good made with store bought produce. It is great to have with almost any meal and there is no canning involved!! This is What's Cookin (not cookin) on Beaty's Creek.

Needed:

6 Cucumbers-peeled and sliced
1 purple onion-peeled and sliced
3 tomatoes-did not have tomatoes this time but we usually add them in
3 cups apple cider vinegar
1 cup sugar

Mix sugar into vinegar until completely dissolved. Now pour over cucumbers and onion slices. Place in fridge for a couple of hours. Just as good the next day.

Brisket

This is my favorite thing to smoke. Believe me, finding a brisket to smoke this Fourth of July was a journey in itself. See I like to smoke a brisket that has at least an inch of fat on top. To me it makes all the difference in the world in the taste and moisture of the brisket. I finally found the brisket in a nearby town and wouldn't you know, it would be close and the last place I thought to look. I use hickory wood in the smoker but the wood choice is up to you. I think hickory gives the meat a very good taste, not over powering but just good. I hate it when you eat something smoked and it tastes like SMOKE. I think you should still be able to fully taste the meat that you have just smoked. This is What's Cookin on Beaty's Creek

Needed:
8-10 pound beef brisket with an inch of fat on top
Rub
Wood of your choice to smoke with
Smoker--well duh...

I rub the brisket with a lot of my rub the night before I smoke it. After it is rubbed down, wrap it tightly in plastic wrap and place in the fridge overnight. An hour before you are going to smoke your brisket, remove it from the fridge and let it come up to room temperature. You will smoke your brisket 1 1/2 hours per pound. Let your brisket rest for 20 minutes before you cut or chop it up. We eat ours on buns with a lot of sauce.

Fresh Blueberry Pie

I love to pick my own blueberries and thankfully my kiddos do too. We pick several gallons so we can have plenty of fresh berries and also have some to freeze for later use. Right now I have a blueberry pie in the oven begging for some vanilla ice-cream..... Back to the recipe, this is a very good pie recipe in my opinion. This would make a great dessert for the 4th of July. This is What's Cookin on Beaty's Creek.

Needed:
4 cups of fresh blueberries( I always put a couple of green berries in my pies. I think it makes a difference.)
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 T butter
2 T Cornstarch
1 egg yolk mixed with a little cream
Pie crust

Mix berries with sugar and cornstarch and pour into your pie pan that is fitted with your bottom crust. Now dot the berries with the 2 T butter and cover with top crust. make sure you cut some air holes in the top crust, this will help the steam to escape. Brush an egg yolk mixed with a little cream over the top crust and sprinkle with sanding sugar. Bake on a parchment lined cookie sheet at 425' for 20 minutes, reduce oven to 350' and bake for 25-30 more minutes.

Garden Green Beans and New Potatoes

I love green beans with new potatoes and bacon. What combo is any better?? I cannot believe how many green beans my garden has put out this year. I canned like crazy at first and then I saved the last harvest to eat! Weird I know but that is what I do. We eat ours with crispy cornbread and that is it. Nothing else is needed, well maybe some cukes from the garden but that is it. This is What's Cookin on Beaty's Creek today.

Needed:
3 pounds of green beans-cleaned and snapped into 1 inch pieces
2 pounds new potatoes-cleaned, but left whole
1 pound bacon-cut into 2 inch pieces
Water
Salt and Pepper to taste

Place green beans into a large pot and cover with water. Now add bacon and salt and pepper to your tastes. Cook over medium heat for 3 hours, now you will add your new potatoes and cook for another hour. We eat ours with crispy thin cornbread.

July 4th Menu

I love the 4th of July!! I don't however like fireworks, Ransome makes up for that. He loves fireworks! We will be cooking out of course, isn't that what everyone does on the 4th??? In our area we are known for being the Huckleberry Capital of the World, and this is the time of year we have our festival. Total small town charm and small town fun! Anyway this is What's Cookin on Beaty's Creek this 4th of July!!

Smoked Brisket
Hot Links
Baked Beans
Corn on the cob
Potato Salad
Watermelon

Stewed Chicken

Everyone in the family likes this recipe and is it pretty simple to make. Just a few steps and dinner is on the table. You can serve this over rice or noodles, we like rice better but it is up to you and your family. This is What's Cookin on Beaty's Creek.

Needed:
1 chicken- cut up
5 celery stalks-stripped and chopped
1 onion-chopped
1 green pepper-chopped
3 T cayenne pepper
Salt and pepper to taste
All-Purpose flour-to shake chicken in and 1/4 cup for roux
Oil


Place flour, salt, pepper, and cayenne pepper in a paper bag, now add chicken and shake until well coated. Heat 1/2 inch of oil in a heavy bottom soup pot. When heated add chicken and brown on all sides. Once browned remove chicken and add all of your veggies, cook until softened slightly, now add 1/4 cup of all purpose flour to oil and veggie mixture, (this is your roux) brown slightly, once browned add 1 1/2 quarts of water and add chicken back to pan and cover for 2 hours. You may need to add a little more water but I only needed 1 1/2 quarts. Serve over rice or noodles with cayenne pepper sprinkled over the top.