1 cup ketchup
2 teaspoons onion powder
2 teaspoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1⁄8 teaspoon garlic powder
1 can of Durkee’s Onions
1 medium green bell pepper (diced)
1 medium white onion (diced)
5 strips of bacon
72 ounces baked beans
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Whisk together ketchup, onion powder, brown sugar, salt, lemon juice and garlic powder. Chop bacon into half inch pieces and place in casserole dish.
Place casserole dish in oven and partially cook bacon (approximately 5 to 7 minutes). Remove from oven; combine remaining ingredients and cook uncovered for 2½ hours.
When JOSLYN TAYLOR’s not doing her day job as the online marketing director for a large technology company, she writes and curates two blogs, “Simple Lovely, ”www.simplelovely.blogspot.com, a lifestyle/design blog, and “Raising Foodies,” www.raisingfoodies.blogspot.com, which chronicles her attempts to get her two young daughters to consume something other than chicken nuggets and Annie’s Mac and Cheese. She is a contributing editor at the social media site, “Kirtsy,” www.kirtsy.com, and has written for Dallas Child Magazine, “Dallas Arts Blog” and Renegade Bus. She lives in Dallas with her daughters Audrey and Amelia (Millie) and her husband Bryan.
