The Serpent’s Tooth Sunday Suppers: Spicy Bacon Baked Beans Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Review: The Serpent’s Tooth:
Austin is now the trendy number one city, but back in the eighties it was more laid back – not so many skyscrapers and urban hipsters. Just outside of town, you'd be likely to run into old cowboys, ranch hands, and a diamondback or two. And just maybe – an accidental death not as accidental as it seems…
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It’s barbecue season and what better side dish than the Spicy Bacon Baked Bean recipe from Different Drummer’s novel, The Serpent’s Tooth, which ends with a glorious outdoor feast.
Today’s recipe is from the narrator, a prominent character in The Serpent’s Tooth:
CHARLOTTE CHOIRBY: Quirky English teacher who suspects foul play in Henry’s death near the old ranch house that she and her family are renovating.
Spicy Bacon Baked Beans
Ingredients
· 2 28 oz can pork & beans
· 1 lb bacon cut and fried
· 1 onion chopped small
· 1/4 cup brown sugar
· 1 tsp ground mustard
· 1 8 oz can tomato sauce
· 1 jalapeno diced
Instructions
1. In fry pan start browning cut bacon. When bacon is almost brown add onion and jalapeño and sauté until onions are translucent and jalapeños are soft.
2. Drain excess grease from pan.
3. Stir all ingredients together.
4. Bake at 350 for 1-1.5 hours
–Des and Kadee
