Thursdays Are For Cooking….

 

This is something that is suitable for cold weather, and if it’s still cold in your AO, fix it. It’s just basic food. Add some cut up veggies to the table setting, some fresh biscuits or cornbread (include butter with this, or course!) and tell your kids and grandkids to tuck in.  We’re still getting snow warnings in my AO, and the furnace won’t get turned off until the temps stay at 70F or more, overnight.  There are piles of snow in the shadows of houses, because the shadowed area is maybe 2 degrees lower than the sunny area. This is when you tell your grandkids about microclimates and why birds go south for the Winter, but come back in the Spring.

Slow cooker BBQ beans and smoked sausage

 Ingredients:

2 cans (15.5 oz each) great northern beans, drained, rinsed

2 cans (15 oz each) Progresso™ black beans, drained, rinsed

1 large onion, chopped (1 cup)

1 cup barbecue sauce

¼ cup packed brown sugar

1 tablespoon ground mustard

1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

2 teaspoons chili powder

1 ring (1 to 1 1/4 lb) fully cooked smoked Polish sausage

Cooking it:

Spray 3- to 4-quart slow cooker with cooking spray.

Mix all ingredients except sausage in cooker.

Place sausage ring on bean mixture.

Cover; cook on LOW heat setting 5 to 6 hours.

Note: If your rugrats and snowball fight champions don’t like this, they are space aliens or Russian spies. Act accordingly. 🙂 And have a nice weekend. Build a small bonfire and tell tall tales to your grandkids, and watch the stars come out at night. You might even get lucky and see a speck like the Space Station pass overhead. No matter what comes down the road, we’re all in this mess together, and even if we had nothing to do with making the mess, we can fix it.

 

Category: Cooking, Economy