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Mexican Seasoning Homemade

Making a Mexican Seasoning Homemade is a quick and easy spice mixture to have in your pantry. This Mexican Seasoning is so versatile, making it easy to build the flavor profiles in chili, enchiladas, tacos, beans and more. Put a batch of this season mixture into a spice shaker bottle for easy usage. Thence keep it in the spice cabinet in a handy spot. This will be your favorite go to Mexican Seasoning mixture.

Grind peppercorns first before other spices.

Grinding Spices

The key to flavorful Mexican Seasoning Homemade is grinding spices and herbs together.

Mexican Seasoning mixed in mortar and pestle.

Using a mortar and pestle is the classic way to grind spices and herbs, that’s been done for thousands of years. But modern way of using a spice grinder, like small coffee grinder works very well also. I like the feeling of the actual grinding actions, by using a mortar & pestle, that forces flavors together. It’s all up to personal preferences, the time and energy you want to spend. Both work well and get wonderful results.

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Mexican Seasoning Homemade is a blend of spices and herbs that can be used to enhance foods.
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3 Ounces 10 Minutes
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3 Ounces 10 Minutes
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  1. Add all ingredients into spice grinder or mortar and pestle. Grind together the spices and herbs into even fine consistency.
  2. Place the ground Mexican Seasoning into spice jar. Label jar and keep your spice pantry drawer or cabinet.
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Turkey Quinoa Chili, Sweet Potatoes

Chili is a ultimate cold weather comfort food, this recipe for Turkey Quinoa Chili with Sweet Potatoes has a healthy twist. The inspiration was sparked by the Linn County Heritage Agency to do demonstrations for the Lynn County Seniors Centers. The extremely cold weather triggers thoughts of the ultimate comfort food for cold weather, instantly Chili came to mind. Chili can often be loaded with excess calories that are totally empty in nutritional value. With this consideration in mind along with Weight Watchers new Freedom Style set me into motion.

Dried Red Kidney Beans soaking in water overnight.

The first thing that came to mind is the types of proteins that can be use in Chili recipes. The core part of this recipe is a vegetarian based, using dried beans or canned beans. These beans are healthy, and using the right ones have zero Weight Watchers Smart Points. Going back to basics by using dried red beans like red kidney beans would be a good starting point. Canned beans have less then desired flavor profile that’s filled with extra salt and processed flavors. Cooking dried beans is simple task, by just using water or homemade stock. Adding to the  dried red kidney beans, bay leaf, chopped onion, and chili powder will boost the flavors and keep calories down and achieving zero Weight Watcher Smart Points. Of course this takes extra time to make a batch of chili but it’s worth the extra effort to achieve the maximum flavor profile. When time is a issue or just don’t like to cook, canned beans will work. To Solve the time constraints by using  Insta pot or Power XL electric pressure cooker saves good 2 hours of cooking time. By cooking the whole vegetarian chili in the electric pressure cooker in about 30 minutes with the power of steam.

Rinsed Quinoa Lean Turkey and Taco Seasoning for meatballs.

Next consideration is in using creative healthy proteins, by adding turkey quinoa meatballs into the chili. Using lean ground turkey, in my past cooking experiences with extra lean 99% ground turkey ends up very dry tasting. But the 93% Lean turkey has just enough fat to have a nice moist flavor profile. Sadly 93% ground turkey is not Zero Points Weight, but is well worth the extra 1 point per ounce of turkey.

Remembering well using TVP in 70’s as additive and binder to extending proteins. This brought to mind the idea of using Quinoa as the extender rather then horrible TVP of 70’s. A trick learned is to soak and rinse off Quinoa with cold water. This extra step removes some of the bitter oils on the exterior of Quinoa. These combinations of the lean ground turkey and quinoa is a added great protein added source to chili. But just combining quinoa to lean ground turkey results in bland tasting combination. The simple solution is to add a package of taco seasoning to the mixture. Taco seasoning is Weight Watchers Zero Points and really boost the flavors of the turkey quinoa.

To get nice rounded mini scoops of turkey quinoa into meatballs by using a teaspoon measure. By dipping the teaspoon measure in hot water before scooping each meat ball provide easy scoops of meatball that came off the spoon without a struggle. Then browning meatballs in non-stick skillet sprayed lightly with oil over medium high heat. Be sure to shake the skillet a few times through cooking process, to produce evenly browning meatballs with little effort, in about 10 minutes.

Healthy Comfort Food

By adding extra garnishes to the chili can improve nutritional values, my first thought was using sweet potatoes shell as container for chili and add some of sweet potatoes  topping the chili. Using this technique gives the chili extra sweetness and a more hearty comforting food. The downside of this is adding calories and more Weight Watcher Smart Points. With the colder weather, the extra nutritional value of sweet potatoes, giving everyone more energy from sweet potatoes is a good trade off. The bonus is a wonderful garnished look rather then just a simple bowl of chili.

As thoughts come streaming into play, why not try using tater tots rather then sweet potatoes, less sweetness and everyone loves tater tots. The results was wonderful, not as sweet, a little more savory and oh so very tasty. The downside is extra Weight Watcher Smart Points and really no nutritional value like sweet potatoes. Still really nice way to change up chili in new ways.

So this is nutritional value for Turkey Quinoa Chili with Sweet Potatoes  

Nutrition Facts
Turkey Quinoa Chili with Sweet Potatoes
Amount Per Serving
Calories 482 Calories from Fat 108
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 12g 18%
Saturated Fat 4g 20%
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
Monounsaturated Fat 1g
Cholesterol 64mg 21%
Sodium 1178mg 49%
Potassium 1107mg 32%
Total Carbohydrates 67g 22%
Dietary Fiber 14g 56%
Sugars 13g
Protein 29g 58%
Vitamin A 383%
Vitamin C 84%
Calcium 40%
Iron 37%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Time to change things up a little try something different and enjoy! Be creative experiment a little that’s the fun of cooking and enjoying.

Turkey Quinoa Chili with Sweet Potatoes

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Servings Prep Time
6 People 15 Minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
30 Minutes 12 Hours

Servings Prep Time
6 People 15 Minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
30 Minutes 12 Hours

Turkey Quinoa Chili with Sweet Potatoes

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Turkey Quinoa Chili with healthy added sweetness from sweet potatoes.
Servings Prep Time
6 People 15 Minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
30 Minutes 12 Hours

Servings Prep Time
6 People 15 Minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
30 Minutes 12 Hours

Ingredients
Mini Turkey Quinoa Meat Balls

Vegetarian Chili

Garnish


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Mini Turkey Quinoa Meat Balls
  1. Soak the quinoa in cold for 15 minutes then rinse with cold water. This removes stronger off flavors of oils on exterior of quinoa.

  2. Combine in a mixing bowl the ground turkey, rinsed quinoa and taco seasoning mix. Mixing well by hand until all the ingredients are blend together. Cover and let rest for 5 minutes.

  3. Form teaspoon size scoops of turkey quinoa mixture, rolled into mini meat ball size shape. Place on tray or plate until all meatballs are formed.

  4. Heat a large skillet with small amount of oil until just to smoking point. Add the turkey quinoa meatballs and brown all sides. Turn heat off meat ball when the turkey quinoa meatballs are browned nicely.

Vegetarian Chili
  1. Sweat the onions, garlic and green peppers in electronic pressure cooker or large sauce pan, cook the vegetables until translucent. This should take about 4 minutes, setting cooker for 15 minuets cooking time.

  2. Add to the sweated vegetables the beans, tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, chili powder, cumin powder, chicken stock, salt and pepper. Stirring well to combine all ingredients. Bring chili mixture just to boil then reduce heat until chili is simmering. Cook for 30 to 45 minutes to develop flavors.

  3. Mean while as the chili is simmering cut the sweet potatoes in half. Then bake in 350°F oven until tender. Note a pairing knife should go cleanly into baked sweet potato without resistance. Remove baked sweet potatoes and allow to cool.

  4. Scoop out the sweet potato flesh carefully not to tear a hole in bottoms of the sweet potato skins. Reserve sweet potato skins for shell to hold chili.

  5. Note if you want meat into chili add the Mini Turkey Quinoa Meatballs to chili. Continue cooking for 15 minutes longer. I like to garnish finished chili topped with meatballs around sweet potato cup.

Garnishing Turkey Quinoa Chili with Sweet Potatoes
  1. Carefully dice sweet potatoes into bite size pieces. Then add the diced sweet potatoes as a garnishing.

  2. Place the baked sweet potato skin onto wide rim bowl, pour 1 cup of hot chili over skin, note if chili spills over no problem. Sprinkle shredded cheddar cheese over chili. Then place a few shards of crisp Kale Chips to give extra crunchy texture and added green color. Place turkey quinoa meatballs around sweet potato.

Recipe Notes

This chili recipe can be made totally vegetarian by using vegetable stock for chicken stock and omitting the mini turkey meatball in recipe. In this will reduce calories of recipe and loose some protein. I made recipe with and without meatballs both are very good.

Try pouring vegetarian chili over tater tots and maybe even adds some Turkey Quinoa Meatball too.

Try garnishing with Kale Chips or thinly sliced jalapeño.

Squirt some fat free ranch dressing over chili for extra dimension to chili.

Substitute one can of red kidney beans for 1 cup of dry kidney beans. Be sure to drain and rinse the canned beans.

Nutrition Facts
Turkey Quinoa Chili with Sweet Potatoes
Amount Per Serving
Calories 482 Calories from Fat 108
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 12g 18%
Saturated Fat 4g 20%
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
Monounsaturated Fat 1g
Cholesterol 64mg 21%
Sodium 1178mg 49%
Potassium 1107mg 32%
Total Carbohydrates 67g 22%
Dietary Fiber 14g 56%
Sugars 13g
Protein 29g 58%
Vitamin A 383%
Vitamin C 84%
Calcium 40%
Iron 37%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

 

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Taco Seasoning Recipe

It’s taco time; tired of having to go and buy taco season packets filled with all those additives and unknown fillers. This Taco Seasoning Recipe has come to the rescue, which can be modified to different spicy profiles. Make a good size batch of this mixture, always having this  Taco Seasoning on hand to be added to any choice of meats. My preference now is lean ground turkey keeping my Weight Watcher Smart Points down. Realistically the Taco Seasoning could be added to lean ground pork or beef with just as good results.

To make a great taco seasoning it needs to be broken down into the following key profile components. Which are main up front aromatics, spiciness, savory, thickener or binder, and adjusting the balance of flavors.

The up front aromatics to this seasoning should have a good cumin flavor profile. Also by adding a little whole coriander seed will give a sweeter and slightly citrus spicy flavor. To achieve a good peppery flavor using whole peppercorns will give extra boost to the profile.  Toasting all these whole spices in a dry skillet until fragrant, turbo charges the flavor profile.  Then freshly grinding the whole spices in a mortar and pestle will produce the best possible seasoning.

Roasting whole spices in dry skillet

Building some spiciness  into the taco seasoning profile choose a good quality chili powder. This will give this mixture a little extra punch.  If  you like a little extra kick, use some cayenne pepper which has a modernly high amount of heat. Finally by adding a smoky flavor with some chipotle powder. This will add even more punch to the spicy blend, giving it a slight smoky profile. Choosing the right mixture of a chili powder, with just the right amount of cayenne, or chipotle powder is all a matter of personal preference.

To build the savory and somewhat earthy profile, I go to the saying “when in doubt add garlic”. Garlic powder and onion powder is a perfect choice for taco seasoning. If you can find some Mexican Oregano this will really add a earthiness to the profile, this type of oregano can be found in Mexican Markets.

A thickener or binder is often added to taco seasoning to achieve right taco consistency when cooked.  Using masa harina a special corn flour, used in making corn tortillas works perfectly. This gives taco seasoning that special little flavor that’s hard to pinpoint, but makes this seasoning great.

Balancing all the flavors together needs a few key ingredients. Using kosher salt, and sugar in the raw, which is a natural unprocessed sugar. Brings all the flavors together to make a good Taco Seasoning Recipe marriage.

My suggestion in finding great quality spices that has not been sitting on grocery store shelf for a long time, is to use Penzeys Spices. For over 20 years I have been using Penzeys spices, they are expensive but well worth the price for building the best possible flavors.

Taco Burger with arugula, cherry tomatoes and southwestern sauce

One of my very favorite things to make with Taco Seasoning is Taco Burgers, made with lean ground turkey. This is a healthy great tasting burger that doesn’t taste like turkey. This is great for summer grilling, placed on a light  hamburger bun, with fresh arugula and tomatoes. Keeping the whole burger down to Weight Watcher 6 Smart Points.

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Taco Seasoning Recipe that is easy to make, and always on hand for taco time.
Servings Prep Time
6 Tbsp 5 minutes
Cook Time
2 minutes
Servings Prep Time
6 Tbsp 5 minutes
Cook Time
2 minutes
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Taco Seasoning Recipe that is easy to make, and always on hand for taco time.
Servings Prep Time
6 Tbsp 5 minutes
Cook Time
2 minutes
Servings Prep Time
6 Tbsp 5 minutes
Cook Time
2 minutes
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  1. Measure all the ingredients keeping whole spices separated from ground spices and herbs.
  2. Using a dry skillet heat cumin seed, coriander seed and black peppercorns shaking skillet often. Heat over medium high until fragrant. Do Not Burn Spices. Remove from heat immediately.
  3. Place toasted whole spices in mortar and pestle.
  4. Grind the toasted spices in mortar and pestle until almost fine texture.
  5. Add the remaining spices and herbs to ground toasted spices, mixing with mortar and pestle until combined.
  6. Finally adding to taco seasoning masa flour mixing in mortar and pestle.
  7. Mixing the all the ingredients in mortar and pestle until all is combined.
  8. Make a label with date for extra taco seasoning mixture.
  9. Use 2 -3 tbsp of Taco Seasoning for every pound of meat. When making taco meat, brown meat first in skillet. Drain excess fat off, then add taco seasoning with 1/2 cup of water. Continue cooking until meat thickens this should be about 2 minutes.
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Spicy BBQ Chicken Rub

Spicy BBQ Chicken Rub
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Hot and spicy rub with a profile that has bacon plus a buttery taste, keeping the chicken very moist, with a nice bacon finish. This is perfect to use for grilling chicken breasts or chicken thighs.
Servings Prep Time
8 pieces 15 minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
45 minutes 20 minutes
Servings Prep Time
8 pieces 15 minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
45 minutes 20 minutes
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Hot and spicy rub with a profile that has bacon plus a buttery taste, keeping the chicken very moist, with a nice bacon finish. This is perfect to use for grilling chicken breasts or chicken thighs.
Servings Prep Time
8 pieces 15 minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
45 minutes 20 minutes
Servings Prep Time
8 pieces 15 minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
45 minutes 20 minutes
Ingredients
Hot & Spicy Rub
Chicken thighs
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BBQ Chicken Rub directions
  1. Mise en place all ingredients for the Spicy BBQ Rub
  2. To make the BBQ Chicken Rub first process the bacon in food processor into paste.
  3. Then add to the bacon paste smoked paprika, cayenne pepper, chili powder, garlic powder, onion powder, white pepper, salt, continue processing bacon paste mixture. Note paste will become very thick.
  4. While paste mixture is processing add chunks of butter a piece at a time. This mixture should become more creamy.
  5. Then add the oil & honey while processing paste so the mixture will become workable spicy paste.
  6. Place the prepared Spicy BBQ Rub in container covered and labeled and refrigerated.
Rub the BBQ Chicken Thighs
  1. Remove bones from chicken thighs, trim excess fat and chicken skin. Apply a generous amount of BBQ Chicken Rub paste to each chicken thigh. Rub the paste evenly over each thigh. Refrigerate for 20 minutes. While set up grill or smoker.
Grilling BBQ Chicken
  1. Set up Grill to temperature of 325 to 350°F, add smoking chips or chunks. Place the Spicy Rubbed Chicken Thighs skin side up on grill using indirect heat. Put a drip pan this 12 oz of beer under grill grids. Close the lid of grill and cook chicken thighs to internal temperature of 165°F.
  2. When chicken thighs reach internal temperature of 165° remove from grill/smoker.
  3. Place Spicy BBQ Chicken Thighs onto platter. Cover with foil to rest for 5 minutes.
Recipe Notes

This rub can be modified to your spicy taste, by reducing or increase cayenne pepper,  Sriracha sauce and chili powder.

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Doritos Powder

Doritos Powder is spice mixture that has so many possibilities, from flavoring chips, dips and rubs for meats.

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Spicy cheese and spice mixture that can be used on so many foods. Adding this powder to sour cream to make spicy dip, or sprinkle on to popcorn or chips for instant flavor boost. Try rubbing on to chicken or pork then can be grilled or roasted. Make this Doritos Powder as spicy as you like by using some optional spices.
Servings Prep Time
14 tbsp 5 minutes
Passive Time
10 minutes
Servings Prep Time
14 tbsp 5 minutes
Passive Time
10 minutes
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Spicy cheese and spice mixture that can be used on so many foods. Adding this powder to sour cream to make spicy dip, or sprinkle on to popcorn or chips for instant flavor boost. Try rubbing on to chicken or pork then can be grilled or roasted. Make this Doritos Powder as spicy as you like by using some optional spices.
Servings Prep Time
14 tbsp 5 minutes
Passive Time
10 minutes
Servings Prep Time
14 tbsp 5 minutes
Passive Time
10 minutes
Ingredients
Optional Flavor Profile Ingredients
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  1. 1) Combine all ingredients in a bowl, using wire whisk mix well until evenly incorporated.
  2. 2) Use 1 tbsp of Doritos Powder sprinkled on top of 6 cups of popcorn. Toss until evenly coated.
  3. 3) To make Doritos Dip 2 - 3 tbsp of Doritos Powder, 1 cup sour cream into a bowl. Mix well until combined, then refrigerate over night to develop flavor profile.
  4. 4) To make a low fat Doritos Dip use 2 to 3 tbsp Doritos Powder to 1 cup of low fat cottage cheese. Put into a food processor and blend until smooth and creamy mixture, about 60 to 90 seconds.
Recipe Notes

Doritos mixtureIf you like milder Doritos use 1/2 tsp of cayenne pepper rather then 2 tsp.

Use 1 tsp Doritos Powder on chicken breast and rub into meat, place in storage bag and refrigerate for 1 hour or longer.

Add 2 to 3 tbsp of Doritos Powder to Cheese Soup to add extra kick and bring smile onto your face.

 

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BBQ Spice Seasoning

This summer let’s put a little spice into your BBQ, rather then go to the grocery store and buy a BBQ Spice Seasoning make your own. Now you can have a jar of your own BBQ Spice Seasoning, that you can grab quickly and put some kick into your BBQ foods. This recipe is a starting point for your custom blend, friends and relatives will say what is your secret? This BBQ Spice Seasoning will fill regular jar about 1.5 oz that would cost at least $3.50 to $4.00 for a famous brand and it will be better. So open up the spice cabinet and start making something with a little more “Oh Ya” in your Barbecuing!

 

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BBQ Spice Seasoning works well with most meats and baked bean dishes adding just enough heat to say "Got Ya"!
Servings Prep Time
3/4 cup 10 minutes
Passive Time
15 minutes
Servings Prep Time
3/4 cup 10 minutes
Passive Time
15 minutes
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Servings Prep Time
3/4 cup 10 minutes
Passive Time
15 minutes
Servings Prep Time
3/4 cup 10 minutes
Passive Time
15 minutes
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  1. Measure all ingredients properly to make BBQ Spice Seasoning.
  2. Combine together in bowl all the spices, herbs and seasoning until mixed.
  3. Place in air tight container. Label and date container, store dry cool dark area for 6 months.
  4. Sprinkle about 1 heaping teaspoon of BBQ Spice Seasoning on steak, chicken breast, pork chop and rub into meat. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour to infuse flavor for better results. This can be sprinkled on just before BBQ Grill and this will work well also. Placing 2 tablespoons of BBQ Spice Seasoning into Baked Beans to build the flavor and give it the kick it needs to say Got Ya! Enjoy
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BBQ Five Beans

BBQ Five BeansBaked beans are the standard side for many BBQ’s, and all to often we use easy short cuts. The BBQ Five Beans recipe is a all out full flavored baked beans side dish, using no short cuts. All beans used in this recipe are started from dried beans and soaked for 12 hours and slow cooked before making them into BBQ Five Beans. Then smoked on the Green Egg for 4 hours at 300°F with apple wood chunks. The result was spicy and smokey BBQ Five Beans, two thumbs up with “Oh Ya” end! This was tested out at Wright’s famous BBQ no fire extinguisher was needed.

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A five dried bean mixture that is soaked, and slow cooked then made into spicy Smoked BBQ beans. This recipe has just enough heat to say "Oh Ya!" But not so hot that a fire extinguisher is needed to put out the flames. The beans have a long cooking time but its more of a "set it and forget it" until the beans are done.
Servings Prep Time
16 people 30 minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
12 hours 18 hours
Servings Prep Time
16 people 30 minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
12 hours 18 hours
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A five dried bean mixture that is soaked, and slow cooked then made into spicy Smoked BBQ beans. This recipe has just enough heat to say "Oh Ya!" But not so hot that a fire extinguisher is needed to put out the flames. The beans have a long cooking time but its more of a "set it and forget it" until the beans are done.
Servings Prep Time
16 people 30 minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
12 hours 18 hours
Servings Prep Time
16 people 30 minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
12 hours 18 hours
Ingredients
Cooking Beans
BBQ Five Beans
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  1. Sort through all the dried beans making sure no dirt, rocks or bad beans. Wash all dried beans with cold water well in colander.
  2. Place washed beans in slow cooker, add bay leaf, BBQ Spice Seasoning and chicken stock, cover with lid and set slow cooker on low and timer for 8 hours. Now let slow cooker do work and not worry.
  3. Remove bay leaf, and remove cooked beans from the slow cooker into mixing bowl. Now this could go into refrigerator overnight if you wanted to make beans a day ahead.
BBQ Five Beans
  1. Fry the diced bacon in skillet with olive oil and garlic. Remove bacon when crisp onto paper towel. Add the onions to bacon grease and garlic and sauté for 2 minutes until onions are translucent.
  2. Add to cooked onions the crisp bacon pieces, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, BBQ spice seasoning, chili powder, garlic pepper, brown sugar, molasses, maple syrup, pepper flakes and brown mustard and cook for 1 to 2 minutes on medium heat. Turn heat off and remove from burner. This is BBQ Sauce for beans
  3. Add the cooked BBQ Sauce to cooked beans and stirring well. Place bean mixture in a heat proof casserole dish.
  4. Heat up smoker, with Green Egg want the dome temperature at 300°F. I used apple wood chunks for smoke. When smoker is up to temperature place on indirect heat close lid or door and smoke for 4 hours. Note check every hour on temperature and add wood chucks as needed.
  5. After 4 hours remove from smoker when ready for service. Enjoy with any traditional BBQ Foods.
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