Random Monday Recipedown!
June 05, 2006
Did you know beans fit into a healthy lifestyle?
I did, because the large can of Pork & Beans told me so.
This statement was later corroborated by three other cans.
In fact, you can make beans an even more important part of an even more healthy lifestyle by adding onion (vegetable), ketchup (also a vegetable), mustard (yellow is the new superfood), maple syrup (part of a balanced breakfast) and lemon juice (totally counts as fruit).
Feel free to balance out all that crazy healthiness with some brown sugar. Go on. You deserve it.
Also: bacon.
Lots and lots of bacon.
Mmmmmm...bacon.
Heat oven to 350F and bake the shit out that bizzitch for an hour or so.
Then, in an effort to promote healthy serving sizes, take beans to picnic but leave serving utensils at home, forcing picnic-goers to use twee little plastic spoons to partake of the beany goodness.
Congratulations! You are an idiot.
Luckily, you are also delicious and do not require a spoon.
(Thanks to Paula Deen for the recipe. Thanks to donrockwell.com for the picnic. Thanks to My Own Damn Self for not having the sense God gave a fly.)
(Full set of picnic photos and other assorted weekend lameness up at Flickr. Like you care.)
I saw that episode. I love Paula too. It looks like they were a good choice to bring. Now I'll try them...Thanks for being the test person. It would seem that Noah likes the sweat they create..
I ate them. I didn't die of botulism. They were the first thing I went for (hey, it was a foodie picnic with no hotdogs, hamburgers or fried chicken - gotta at least have some baked beans!)Twee little spoons didn't slow me down at all. The beans were yummy, and Noah was very yummy.
I remember reading somewhere that a person could survive on beans alone forever... or at least a really, really, really long time.
That's it.