Cooking With PaPaGrizz

Well howdy friends and neighbors. I have another great recipe for you today and actually you have my son Bob to thank for getting me to finally put it on the blog. It's a little dish I like to call Ozark Mountain Bean Bake.

So without any more fanfare lets get to it, here are the fixin's You're going to need:

1 pound ground beef
1 can butter beans
1 can pinto beans
1 can kidney beans, or red beans or what ever kind of beans you care for.... lol.
1 onion
Half cup Brown sugar
2/3 cup Ketchup
1 pound of bacon
Salt, Pepper and any other seasonings. You would like for instance. Cayenne Pepper, Cajun spices, or "PaPa's stuff" (Recipe to follow).

Okay, that's just the basic stuff you need and if you know me. I never measure anything, but I thought it be nice to give you a guideline.

So here's how to put it all together:

In a decent sized frying pan cooked up the bacon once you have the bacon fried, just like you like it. Scoop it out, and I'll let it drain on a paper towel or something. Leave most of the bacon grease in the pan, because that's what you're going to brown the ground beef in. Now throw in the salt and pepper, and any other seasoning you wish and fry it up!

Once you have that done, drain off the grease, crumble up the bacon, and mix bacon and beef together.

Now the fun part... in a Dutch oven. Start your layers as follows:

The ground beef and bacon mix, beans, onions, ketchup and brown sugar. Just follow the same for as many layers as you can put your big Ole' Dutch oven.

Now for those of you are headed to the deer woods here's a little tip. Prepare everything ahead of time at home, put the separate layers in one of those pokes they call baggies, load them in your cooler, and you will be the star of the next meal at deer camp.

Oh my gosh, I almost forgot. I promised to give you a recipe for my seasoning that I use in almost everything I make. This stuff is not real hot, but if you want, you can make it that way. So without further ado, I will finally reveal my secret recipe for "Papa's stuff"

Drum Roll Please!

What I usually do is after I have it all mixed up is I put it in an old seasoning container. Make sure you have some good sized holes in the container so won't be a pain in the butt to use.

All Right, Papa, give us the darn secret all ready!

Here it is:

PaPa's Stuff.

2 tablespoons garlic powder
1 1/2 tablespoons Cayenne pepper

1 tablespoon dried thyme
1 tablespoon dried oregano.

2 1/2 tablespoons Paprika
2 tablespoons salt
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 1/2 tablespoon onion powder

Now, if you have a big honkin' container. Just double or triple the recipe. Like I said, if you like it hotter. You could always add more Cayenne.

I'm trying something new this time on my blog. I'm thinking it's better to see what is going on than just to read it. So please take the time and view. My first ever cooking video. I hope you like it!
Feel free to leave comments, whether it's good bad or ugly below.Your input is very important to me.

Thanks for being here, in my kitchen. And remember, don't burn the fingers!

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