Gents, this may be a failure but I am documenting it here
I have made my own baked beans for a while. Sometimes just doctoring up canned beans, sometimes making them from dry beans. Lately I've gotten where I just use canned beans because I'm just not that interested in pressure cooking beans and then adding the goodies to make them "baked" beans. So these days I start off with Pork & Beans and work on it from there. I've got a pretty dang good recipe I use but as always, I keep an eye out for something different.
I found a recipe called "Dutch's Wicked Baked Beans" that looked intriguing enough to try. In his recipe, he starts off with Original Bush's Baked Beans. Being that I am a tinkerer, I rebelled and used Pork & Beans as my base. From that point I followed most of his recipe but used less brown sugar and ketchup and added a little molasses and BBQ sauce and a little salt and pepper. Mixed it all up and added a little ground cloves and off to the SI it went with 2oz of cherry wood.
Here's what I've got in the smoker :
4 cans of pork & beans
6 strips of bacon fried mostly crisp and chopped up fine
2 seeded and finely diced fresh jalapenos plus 1/2 of a non seeded jalapeno finely diced
3/4 of a diced bell pepper
3/4 of a diced onion - sauteed in the bacon fat along with bell and jalapeno peppers^^^
1/4 cup molasses
1/4 cup KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce
1/2 cup Heinz Ketchup
1/2 Tbs Ground Mustard
Salt and Pepper
Pinch of Ground Cloves
8 oz can crushed pineapple
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
We'll see if it turns out. I'm going to smoke them for about 3 hours. Hopefully they'll be edible. If not, chalk it up to a learning experience! Failure is the best teacher (at least that what I tell myself, lol)
Stay tuned for pics and the final verdict later!
