Vegetable / Green: Granny's Secret Baked Beans

From Shelly Carey

Ingredients
3-4 small cans of Pork ‘n Beans
1 lb ground beef
1 package of thick-sliced bacon (optional)
1 green bell pepper
1 Vidalia onion
mustard
1/4 cup brown sugar (or to taste)
BBQ sauce

Directions
Crumble up the ground beef and brown in a pan. Cook half the package of bacon.

Drain. Chop up one onion and one green pepper. Combine the baked beans, raw pepper and onion and beef. Crumble up the cooked bacon and add to the bean mixture. Reserve half of the bacon (this half is uncooked) for the top of the dish.

Flavor the beans with a squirt of mustard (1 Tablespoon?), ¼ cup barbecue sauce (or to taste), and brown sugar.

Add the beans to an oven-safe dish. Top the beans with the remaining raw bacon slices. Bake for 30-45 minutes at 350 degrees, until the bacon looks done. Broil for a minute or two if the bacon still doesn’t look done.