Baked Beans

INGREDIENTS

1 lb. Navy Beans

1 Tablespoon Baking Soda

6-8 Cups Water

(Three Bean Option -
mix equal parts of
Red Kidney Beans
Black beans
White Kidney Beans)

Boston Style Sauce

1 1/8 Cups Ketchup

3/4 Cup Molasses

3/8 Cups Brown Sugar

4 1/2 Tablespoons Honey

1 1/2 Tablespoon Worchestshire Sauce

3/4 Teaspoon Salt

3/8 Teaspoon Black Pepper

1/2 Teaspoon Dry Mustard

1 Teaspoon Tobasco Sauce

1 lb. Bacon - Ends and Pieces

1 Medium White Onion - Finely Chopped

1 Red, 1 Yellow, 1 Orange Small Pepper chopped for flavor and color

1/4 Teaspoon Mick's Spice O' Life™

DIRECTIONS

Bean preparations

In a large pot add beans, sprinkle 1Tbsp. baking soda over beans and cover with water. Place in fridege and soak overnight.

In the same water simmer the beans in a crock pot on low overnight (9-11 hrs.) Drain and reserve liquid.

Boston style Baked Bean Sauce

In a saucepan, combine molasses, ketchup, Worchestshire sauce, brown sugar and honey. Stir thoroughly adding dry mustard, salt and pepper. (Add Tobasco for heat). Bring mixture to a boil and cook for 2 min.

Cook bacon in a pan using tongs to transfer to a paper towel to cool and drain bacon. When bacon is cool slice into bite size pieces. Add onion to the bacon remnants in the pan, once caramelized (approx. 2 min.) add peppers, season with Mick's Spice O' Life™ and saute until tender.