Recipe: Shannon's Baked Beans (using ground beef, crock pot or stovetop)

SHANNON'S BAKED BEANS

"I have used this same recipe for baked beans for about four years," said Shannon. "I got it from a church cookbook and I always am assigned the baked beans because everyone loves them!"

1 pound ground beef
1 large yellow onion, chopped fine
1 green bell pepper, chopped fine
1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
1/4 cup brown sugar
3 drops of liquid smoke
2 tablespoons mustard
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cans (15 ounces each) pork and beans

Brown ground beef; when it is almost done add the onion and green pepper.

Add remaining ingredients and either simmer on stove 20-30 minutes or put into crock pot and cook, covered, on LOW for 1-2 hours. (I prefer the crock pot method.)

Source: Shannon Lavery of Genola in The Daily Herald, April 18, 2006 (Provo)