Smokestack Baked Beans

This bean recipe is so good, it is named after a bbq restaurant here in town that has yummy bbq! This would be a good dish to take to one of your summer bbq's!

Click on picture to read recipe and this is also from a recipe swap for side dishes, again 6"x6".

Cheesy Corn Bake

Hi everyone!!! Sorry for the long delay in posting, things have been very busy at my house the last couple of days, but don't worry I haven't forgotten you! I thought today I would share a recipe since it's been awhile since I posted one. I think you could use this one for the upcoming Memorial Day week-end with all the BBQ'ing that will be going on. It is the official start of the summer, YES!! I found this recipe in a Theta cookbook and my oldest daughter really likes it.

Cheesy Corn Bake

2 Tablespoons butter
4 Tablespoons flour
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder, I think fresh would work just fine too
3/4 cup milk
1 1/2 cups sharp Chedder cheese, shredded
4 slices of American cheese
1- 3 ounce package cream cheese, cubed
3- 10 ounce packages frozen whole kernel corn, thawed and drained
3 ounces diced ham

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In large pan, melt butter. Stir in flour and garlic powder. Add milk gradually. Stir over medium heat until thick and bubbly. Add cheeses. Stir over low heat until cheeses are melted. Add corn and ham. If it is too thick, than add more milk, alittle at a time, until desired consistency. Pour into a 2 quart greased casserole dish. Bake for 45 minutes. Serves 10.

Can easily be halved.

Hope you enjoy it!


Mary

Church Potatoes

....also known as potato casserole, cheesy potatoes, hash brown potatoes...you get the idea. I made these one time when one of my husband's co-workers was having dinner with us. She was telling her small daughter that "these are the kind of potatoes that the ladies make at church", you know, when they have luncheons after funerals. The name stuck and that is what we have called them ever since.

Chruch Potatoes

2 pounds frozen hash browns, thawed
1/2 cup melted butter
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 can cream of chicken soup
2 cups sour cream
2 cups shredded MILD Cheddar cheese

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Combine melted butter, cream of chicken soup and sour cream; mix together well. Add chopped onion, salt, pepper and shredded cheese; mix together well again. Add the hash browns, making sure to blend all very well. Pour into a grease 9 x 13" pan.

Topping:

1 1/2 cups crushed corn flakes
1/4 cup melted butter

Combine and sprinkle over top. Bake for 45 minutes, uncovered.
Serves 6 to 8 depending on serving sizes

One year my husband entered these in the potato division at the American Royal B-B-Q contest and placed sixth out of 250 enteries, which we thought was pretty good! My family like these with meatloaf, ribs or just about anything! Enjoy!