I tried my hand at home-made Baked Beans.

[DetlefK]

Amounts just approximately.
- a bit less than a pound of white beans, soaked over night
- about half a pound of fresh pork-belly, sliced in 1 inch pieces
- 1 onion, diced
- 1-2 garlic cloves, minced
- a half-an-inch piece of ginger, minced
- salt, pepper
- 1 teaspoon of tomato paste
- 1 teaspoon mustard
- 1-2 cans of canned tomato
- 1 tablespoon of brown sugar

1.
Boil beans for 45 minutes until soft, pour out water, set aside.

2.
While the beans boil, stir-fry the pork-belly, onion, garlic, ginger, salt, pepper in a pan. When it's pretty much done, add the tomato-paste and fry a little bit more. Set aside.

3.
In a large bowl (or use the pot where you boiled the beans), mix the beans, the pork-stuff, the mustard, the canned tomato and the brown sugar. Pour into a baking-dish. Carefully add water on top until everything is barely covered.

4.
In the oven, medium to high heat for about 1 hour. (It's said that the longer you bake it, the better it gets, but I didn't taste a difference between 1 hour and 3 hours.)
If your baking-dish has a lid, you can pretty much bake it for hours without needing to check or to add water.

[yellerpup]

1. I love beans!

This looks delicious and I will definitely try it. I enjoy your other posts, too.

[Kaleva]

2. I made a batch last week and my wife and I loved them

I used dried red kidney beans which I soaked overnight, rinsed, simmered for two hours, rinsed and drained again before adding them to the pot.

Ingredients

1 tbsp oil
10 oz bacon, chopped
2 medium onion, chopped
3 tsp minced garlic(or 1 1/2 tsp garlic paste)
28oz dried red kidney beans or pinto beans , soaked and cooked
1 1/2 cup ketchup
1 6 0z. can of tomato paste
1 cup molasses
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1 1/2 cup water
4 tsp mustard powder (or 2 tbsp Dijon or American mustard)
2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp cayenne pepper
2 tsp salt + pepper to taste

Instructions

Heat oil over medium high heat (can skip oil if bacon is super fatty). Add bacon and cook for 1 1/2 minutes.
Add onion and garlic. Cook for for about 3 minutes until onion and bacon are golden.
Add remaining ingredients. Stir, bring to simmer, then place lid on. Cook until sauce is thickened.

[MissMillie]

3. the tomato products wouldn't fly w/ my family

and I'm noticing a lack of molasses (!!). They do sound pretty good though.

I love baked beans.

[DetlefK]

5. Didn't have molasses, but had plenty of brown sugar left over from baking cake.

[TEB]

4. I am going to try this Saturday

Thank you