_no Name Creek Baked Beans Food

THE BEST BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F. Cook the bacon in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat until browned and crisp, about 8 minutes. Add the onion and garlic and cook until softened, 4 to 5 minutes. Add the paprika and toast, stirring, about 30 seconds. Add the tomato sauce, molasses, bourbon, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, 2 teaspoons salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Bring to a simmer and cook 5 minutes.
• Add the beans and 8 cups water. Bring to a boil, then cover the pot and transfer to the oven. Bake until the beans are tender, about 3 hours. (If the beans are still slightly firm, continue cooking, stirring every 45 minutes and adding more water if necessary to just cover.)
• Once the beans are tender, uncover and increase the oven temperature to 325 degrees F. Bake until the beans are thick and browned, about 1 more hour. (Again, if the beans need more time, continue cooking, stirring occasionally and adding more water if necessary.) Remove from the oven and thin with water if necessary.

PERFECTLY BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• Adjust the oven rack to the lower-middle position and preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
• Fry the regular chopped bacon in a large, deep skillet until the bacon has partially cooked and released about 1/4 cup drippings. Add the onions, peppers and jalapenos, and saute until tender, about 5 minutes. Add the beans, barbecue sauce, brown sugar, vinegar, ketchup, mustard and chipotles, and bring to a simmer. (If the skillet is not large enough, add the beans and heat to a simmer and then transfer to a large bowl and stir in the remaining ingredients). Pour the flavored beans into an aluminum pan. Top with the uncooked slices of bacon (you can halve the slices if you like). Then bake until the beans are bubbly and the sauce is the consistency of pancake syrup, about 2 hours. Let stand to thicken slightly and serve.

OLD FASHIONED BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• Place the dried beans in a pot of water covered by a few inches of water and let soak overnight. Drain the beans, place them back in the pot with fresh water and bring to a boil. Simmer for one hour, then drain, reserving the liquid. See NOTE.
• In a Dutch oven or other oven-proof pot fry the bacon until crispy then add the onions and cook until soft and translucent, 5-7 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for another minute.Stir in the tomato sauce, molasses, brown sugar, apple cider vinegar, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, smoked paprika, salt, pepper and bay leaf.Add 1 1/2 cups of the reserved bean water and the beans.Bring everything to a simmer for a minute or two to heat it up. In the meantime preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
• Transfer the Dutch oven with the lid on to the middle rack of the oven. Bake for 2 to 3 hours or until the beans are tender and the sauce has thickened, removing the lid during the last 20-30 minutes to help the sauce thicken. NOTE: If at any point during the cooking process too much liquid evaporates and the beans get dry, add a little more of the reserved bean water. The beans themselves can vary from batch to batch and you may end up either needing to add more liquid if the beans are too dry or you may need to bake the beans longer with the lid off if there is too much liquid. Adjust as needed.Add more salt the pepper to taste.Serve immediately or let cool completely and refrigerate until ready to serve. Can be reheated on the stovetop or in the microwave.
• SLOW COOKER METHOD: Follow steps 1 and 2 and then pour everything into the slow cooker. Cook on LOW for 6-7 hours or on HIGH for 3-4 hours or until the beans are tender. Open the lid for the last 30 minutes or longer until the sauce has thickened. If the beans are too thick at any point and too much liquid has evaporated, stir in a little extra water.

NO NAME CREEK BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• Place first three ingredients in Dutch Oven and add whatever amounts you want of remaining ingredients. Don't hesitate to add any other ingredients laying at the bottom of your grub box! If you lack ambiance when served, just wait 3 to 4 hours!A Back Country Guide to Outdoor Cooking Spiced with Tall Tales - Vegetables in Camp

_NO NAME CREEK BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• Often times recipes are born of necessity or thrown together out of what ever the cook can find left in the grub box. So was born this recipe in a camp on "No Name Creek" the fall of 1991. Right now you're thinking this "No Name Creek" doesn't exist and I'm just tryin' to protect a honey hole for elk hunting. Wrong! Look real close at a map of Chamberlain Basin in Central Idaho, and you'll find the real "No Name Creek" about a thirty minute horseback ride from Chamberlain Airstrip.I'd been assigned a two week hitch in Chamberlain as part of an emphasized enforcement effort in the back country. I, along with several others, rode and flew into Chamberlain to relieve guys who'd been in since before the back country elk hunt opened. Don Wright drew the duty of camp cook for the first crew and I drew KP for the second group. Our tours over-lapped a day so Don and I combined our talents for dinner. To this day neither of us remembers the main course that night. Since my grub order wouldn't arrive till the next day, we made do with what Don had on hand.Looking in the grub box it appeared our choices for a vegetable included kidney beans, black eyed peas, black beans, navy beans, pinto beans, or pork and beans. With not enough of any one kind to go around we had no choice but to throw them all together. Looking at the ingredient list, you'll see that lacking a real kitchen sink to throw in, we just cleaned out the grub box. Since then, I've served this recipe to several hundred people, but I don't think it ever tasted quite as good as that first night. I chalk it up to ambiance. Folks talk about how the proper ambiance will make a good meal great. Only pilgrims wouldn't classify the smell of wood smoke and dinner music provided by horse bells as ambiance! Anyway...these beans will provide their own ambiance.A Back Country Guide to Outdoor Cooking Spiced with Tall Tales - Vegetables in Camp