Erin's Fish Tacos

Tilapia is a great, cheap, lean fish that's great for fish tacos! I make these often as we usually keep frozen tilapia on hand and since the fillet's are so small, it thaws quickly!

Ingredients

• 2 Tilapia Fillets
• 1 tsp Spices, Chili Powder
  1/4 tsp Kosher Salt
  1/4 tsp Black Pepper
  1 tsp Turbinado Sugar
  1 tbsp Olive Oil
• 4 Corn Tortillas Taco Size
• 2 tbsp Red Onion (diced)
  1/4 Tomatoes (diced)
  1/2 Lime (cut into wedges)

Directions

• Thaw, rinse and dry tilapia
• Preheat pan med/med-hi
• Combine spices together (for an addedtouch, dip the very tips of your lime
  wedges in the rub so when you squeeze it on the tacos, you get a little spice,
  not to mention it looks great on a plate)
• Coat fish in olive oil and rub with spice rub
• Cook Tilapia in pre-heated pan until done (approx. 3 min per side)
• Meanwhile, Heat tortillas and dice onion and tomato for garnish. Sometimes I make a basic vinegar slaw to toss on top as well.
• Build your tacos and enjoy! (don't forget to serve with the lime wedges!)

3 B's Baked Beans...because everything is better with Bacon, Bourbon and Brown Sugar

Summer is here and it's time for grilling and delicious homecooked food. Baked beans are easy to cheat with by grabbing a can of it at the store and heating it up nice and quick. However, we wanted to try the real deal and they are far superior with no high-fructose corn syrup and no preservatives!


Ingredients

• 1 lb dry Navy Beans (aka Great Northern's)


• 4 slices thick bacon, diced


• 1 cup packed brown sugar


• 2/3 cup Bourbon


• 1/2 cup Stoneground or Dijon Mustard


• Water


• Kosher Salt and Fresh Ground Pepper to taste

Directions

1. Sort through beans and remove any pebbles, foreign objects, etc


2. Soak beans for about one hour in water at room temperature.


3. Cook diced bacon until nice and crispy


4. Put bacon, grease and all into crockpot (how else do you think baked beans taste so good?)


5. Add brown sugar, bourbon, mustard (to give some tang), and drained beans


6. Add enough water to cover beans with an additional inch or so above them


7. Cook overnight or all day. Add water if things are drying out


8. Add salt and pepper to taste
9. Enjoy!

Oven Baked Bacon!

Oven Baked Bacon

I have a strong love/hate relationship with bacon. LOVE crispy bacon, despise soggy bacon, love the flavor and texture but hate the guilt. Oven Baked Bacon is by no means healthier for you than any other bacon but is a good "sometimes food" on a lazy weekend morning.

Using the wire racks helps with heat distribution as well as allows some of the excess fat to drip off of the bacon.

Ingredients:

• Thick Sliced Bacon (as much as you want - 3 pieces per person is plenty!)
• White Sugar (small spoonful)

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 400
• Line baking sheet with foil - really helps with clean up
• Place wire racks on baking sheet
• Lay out back on wire racks
• Bake for 20 minutes
• Flip bacon
• Bake for a bit longer to desired doneness (usually about 10 minutes for me)
• Remove bacon from oven
• Dab extra fat off with a paper towel if desired
• Sprinkle a LIGHT amount of sugar on the bacon
• ENJOY