CHURCH PICNIC BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees (F) instructions for conventional oven.
• Finely chop the onions, green peppers and red peppers.
• drizzle olive oil in large deep skillet.
• add the chopped vegetables and saute until slightly softened.
• add the 85% lean ground beef to the slightly sauteed veggies and brown until no longer pink set aside.
• slightly fry the 4 slices of bacon until it slightly starts to brown set aside.
• in a large bowl add ketchup, hickory barbecue sauce, granulated brown sugar, dry ground mustard, 2 tablespoons honey and mix together well.
• open the 4 cans of Great Northern Beans and rinse well.
• Place all 4 cans in a 9 x 13 in baking dish.
• Take the 85% lean ground beef mixture and mix well into the beans.
• Pour the Ketchup mixture into the beans and mix well making sure all the beans and meat are covered with the saucesmall amount of bacon drippings (it should only be a small amount).
• drizzle the remaining 1 tablespoon of honey over the top.
• top with remaining 3 strips of bacon.
• Cook at 300 degrees for 2 hours.
• Remove bacon before serving.
• If cooking in the crock pot follow steps for cooking the veggie mixture, meat mixture.
• Cook bacon as directed above.
• mix sauce as directed above.
• Place the meat and veggie mixture and the ketchup mixture in the crock pot and mix well.
• Place the remaining bacon on top of the beans and drizzle the bacon drippings.
• Drizzle the remaining 1 tablespoon of honey.
• add the 1/4 cup water.
• Cover the crock pot and cook on low for 5-6 hours and 3-4 hours on low.