One of the quirks of journalscape that I really like is that the main page displays all of the entries for an entire month. The downside is that it was nagging at me all day that even though it’s now October (my favorite month), the blog will still displaying September stuff until I post something new. Yes, it’s a sickness. As it happened though, we had a busy day doing stuff around the house, and I don’t have anything to say.

So I will share with you the recipe I made tonight for our World Communion Potluck tomorrow. Our church is blessed with a rather diverse membership, with a large international population, and lots of people who have lived abroad and/or traveled extensively. Of course most of you know I am from the nation of Texas, so here is a recipe from the homeland… Hey, I wonder if they’d let me carry the lone star flag during the processional of flags at the beginning…

Hart Stilwell’s Baked Beans

2 pounds cooked navy beans or other white beans
1 1/2 cups tomato juice
1 cup chopped pecans, toasted
3/4 c dark brown sugar (reduce if you don’t have a Texas-sized sweet tooth)
3/4 c strong black coffee
1/2 medium onion, chopped
1/2 c ketchup
1/2 c bourbon
4 slices slab bacon, chopped
1 carrot, grated fine
2 T unsulphured dark molasses
2 T dry mustard

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix all the ingredients together in a large bowl. Pour the ingredients into a baking dish. Bake the beans, uncovered, about 1 1/2 hours, or until they have thickened and cooked down, with a “skin” just beginning to form on the top of the beans.
The beans reheat well and keep for several days.

This is from the wonderful Texas Home Cooking cookbook, which has the best recipe for fruitcake I’ve ever seen:

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Call the Collin Street Bakery and order their Original Deluxe…

My first job was for Baskin-Robbins. One of the fun things I got to do was write on cakes with frosting. Someone came in one day and wanted "Bon Appetit" written on a cake. Nobody in the store was 100% sure how to spell it though, so I suggested Good Eatin'! The customer was pleased. You can get away with that in Texas.

So, good eatin', y'all. And don't let me catch you puttin' that thar apostrophe in the wrong place. It's Y-Apostrophe-A-L-L, podnah.