Do you have your top secret Ninja ways to make plain old canned baked beans taste more like homemade? I have a couple of tricks up my sleeve, depending on what kind of beans I want. Most of the time when I’m Doctoring Canned Baked Beans, I’m looking for kind of delish New England style, a bit zippy, a little sweet, and super flavorful, and that’s what these are.
Doctoring Canned Baked Beans
One of my very favorite meals on my site is Guatemalan Chicken in Coconut Milk, Pollo en Leche de Coco. It’s the perfect thing for a cold, winter day – fast and easy and flavor for days! In the past, I’ve served it with plain rice instead of how I first had it, with Guatemalan Rice & Beans.
Pollo en Leche de Coco – Guatemalan Chicken in Coconut Milk with Rice & Beans (note the Escabeche as a garnish)
There are times you want to have a recipe like White Chicken Chili Slow Cooker – Instant Pot – Stovetop. And then there are times you HAVE to have it! Maybe like today, when up Nord, here, in the Twin Cities the high is 12 degrees with seven inches of fresh snow, but tomorrow promises a high of -5 and a low of -25! That’s Fahrenheit!
White Chicken Chili Slow Cooker – Instant Pot – Stovetop
It’s easy to always think about St. Paul & Minneapolis, the Twin Cities, as a Swedish/Norwegian city and we do have a large population. Maybe our weather made them feel at home. But it’s just as easy to forget that our earliest settlements were French and/or French Canadian. So in honor of our French, here’s a “Bean Pot” or if ya want to be fancier, I’ll just call this a Minnesota Cassoulet Bean Pot.
Minnesota Cassoulet “Bean Pot”
I grew up on Old Fashioned Three Bean Salad, and if you’re from the Midwest, I bet you did, too! There’s nothing like fresh garden beans soaking up all the sweet, tangy marinade!
Old Fashioned Three Bean Salad