3:3 potluck
Recipes follow: Western BBQ beans Strawberry Pretzel Square (old recipe but always finds new fans) Maple Walnut cake (got the idea from Relish magazine) Western BBQ beans (meat lover beans) serves 20-30--I doubled this recipe 1 lb. ground beef 1 lb. bacon 1/2 lb. or so sausage 1/2 cup onions diced fine 1 bottle BBQ sauce (or make your own from chile powder. 1 Tb; 1/3 cup ketsup; 1/2 cup brown sugar; 1-2 Tb. moleasses) Cook the GB, stirring and chopping so it comes out small pieces. Remove from pan along with the grease. 1 lb. bacon, cooked and crumbled.......save a couple tablespoons grease and cook the onions in it until soft and golden. Remove from pan. Chop the sausage (I used several types) into small pieces and cook briefly in the skillet...hopefully you saved some of that bacon grease. This was combined and stored in refrig until assembly time 2 days later. (my convenience) 2, 28 ounce cans Bush's beans original And some beer (optional) Mix the beans with the meat(heat the meat in the oven first to aid mixing with the BBQ sauce, rinse the BBQ bottle with about 4 ounces of beer (you get to drink the rest). Combine all, heat in oven until hot through and bubbly. I assembled it and baked it at church and chugged the beer.......9 a.m. beer....day went much better. Strawberry Pretzel Square (people almost squeal when they see it.....huh?) Yeah, doubled this too: 2 cups finely crushed pretzels (about half a bag..depending how many you eat along the way) 1/2 cup sugar---divided 2/3 cup butter melted 2 Tb. milk...at least 1 cup thawed Cool Whip (I probably doubled this) 2 cups boiling water 1 pkg. Jell-o strawberry 1 1/2 cup ice cold water 4 cups freshed strawberries, sliced To the crushed prezels add 1/4 cup sugar and the melted butter. Press onto bottom of a 9x13 pan (I think an 8x12 or smaller otherwise it is too thin). Bake 10 min. Cool! Beat cream cheese with remaining 1/4 cup sugar and milk until blended and smooth. Spread over cooled crust and refrigerate. Add boiling water to Jell-O, stir to dissolve Stirl in ice water. Refrigerate until sorta thick, spoon drawn thru leaves definite impression. Stir in sliced strawberries and spoon over cream cheese layer. Refrigerate at least 3 hours to let all firm up. Maple Walnut Cake (yeah, I made two of these) I cheated: I started with 1 dry cake mix Make according to directions but add 1 teaspoon Mapleline maple flavoring to batter.....or whatever artificial maple flavor you can find. Better to add gradually and taste than to go over board. Also add 1/2 t. cinnamon and a pinch of nutmeg to the mix...just want that (hmmmm, what's this) flavor. You could go to 1 t. for us cinnamon lovers. Bake Frosting 8 ounces cream cheese room temp 1 stick unsalted butter (no margarine, why with the cream cheese?) 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of your maple flavoring (taste as you go, the flavorings vary in strength) 1/4 to 1/3 cup Nucela Italian walnut liqueur (Mama mia!) 4 cups or so powdered sugar 1 cup chopped and toasted walnuts Beat cream cheese and butter together. Add one cup powdered sugar, beat until smooth. Add both flavorings. Add enough additional powdered sugar to make a nice frosting. Spread over cake. Sprinkle with toasted and cooled walnuts. I watched, people came back for seconds. Pigs, I wanted to take some home. |
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| You can't beat the strawberry pretzel recipe--that thing is soooo good! The beans sound great--anything with ground beef and bacon cannot be bad. I will have to make it (not to serve 20 though!) |
| I hope everyone realizes I baked the beans a bit to combine flavors......realized I forgot that part. Original recipe said crock pot 1 hour on high or 6-8 hours low. I used a convection oven until everything was hot and bubbly...and yes, I did stir it once or twice while heating. One variation was to add cheese for the last 15 mintues and let it melt......you gotta be kidding? Arteries were already in peril.... |
| I am so dang impressed!!! I'd be overwhelmed considering you are usually making something for church and in HUGE quantities!!! I also love strawberry pretzel!!! And of course the kids. I'd love to have someone make some for me right now.  |
hmmm, UPS overnite?   |
I would love it if it were more convenient to do  |
| Ok, I'm a dummy. What's a 3:3? 3 courses for 3 people? A half-court pickup game of basketball? A Bible passage about being born again? |
| Three for three, perfect score, etc |
Ron wrote: A Bible passage about being born again? LOL |
| not born again Actually one real birth was enough.....like Jilly and Jae-Li, I popped out too early and had to stay in the box a month |
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