Smoked Butt and Friends!

While my butt was smokin :). I went ahead and prepared my beans, slaw and potato salad. The beans are from a recipe from Woody's Cook-in Sauce (this stuff is crazy, very intense, very very smokey, and Will loves it.) The only thing is that you just can't get Woody's anywhere. You can buy online, but if you live in Ohio take a trip to Jungle Jims in Fairfield Ohio, definitely worth the trip. To make these beans you will need: 2 16 oz cans pork n beans in tomato sauce, 1 med yellow onion chopped, 4 slices of bacon, 1/3 C Woody's, 1/4 C ketchup, and 2 tbs brown sugar. Start with frying your bacon until crispy, remove from pan and set aside. Pour off the bacon fat drippings and reserve all for this recipe and for the potato salad below. Add 2 tbs of the drippings back into the pan. Add your chopped onion to pan and cook until tender, not brown. Crumble your bacon and add to the pan with onions. Add your Woody's, ketchup, and brown sugar and mix well. Add your beans, bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes. These beans are really good, so get some Woody's and give this recipe a try.

This Kicked Up Cole Slaw is from Chef Aaron McCargo Jr, he was one of the Next Food Network Stars. It's really different and not overly sweet and has a nice kick to it. To make it you will need 1 16 oz pkg of slaw mix, 1/2 of a red onion sliced thin, 2 scallions thinly sliced, 1 jalapeno (seeds removed) thinly sliced, 1/2 of red pepper thinly sliced, 3/4 C mayonnaise, 2tbs sour cream, 2tbs white vinegar, 1tbs sugar, several dashes of hot sauce, 1/2tsp course ground black pepper, 1/4 tsp celery salt, pinch of cayenne, a pinch of kosher salt. Add all to a large bowl, mix it up and refrigerate for 30 minutes or so.

The Texas Country Potato Salad is a Paula Deen recipe and very simple too! It's different from the usual suspects, but really good. All you will need is 1 lb of small red potatoes (leave whole and don't peel), 4 strips of bacon cooked until crispy, 1 scallion thinly sliced, 1 boiled egg chopped, 1/4 C mayonnaise, 1tsp dijon mustard, S&P to taste. If you're making beans above, go ahead and fry 8 slices of bacon and reserve 4 slices for this recipe, don't forget you will need the bacon drippings for this recipe. Go ahead and bring your potatoes to a boil, add kosher salt and 2 tbs of bacon drippings to the water, and cook for 15-20 minutes until tender. At this time you can bring another pan of water to a boil for your egg. After your potatoes are done, drain them and let them cool, and quarter them. Add your potatoes to a med bowl, add the chopped egg, onion and toss. Add mayonnaise, mustard and S&P and mix, add your bacon and toss one more time. That's it. We're going to serve all of these dishes along side our pulled pork. Mmm!