Food Wednesdays

   Hello everyone and welcome to Food Wednesdays.

This link up event is all about sharing food with each other. As promised I have an announcement to make, so instead of having you read all the way to the end of my post, as I know many of you are curious and waiting, I will just share at the top of my post. I am excited to tell you all too.

  I was messaging up and back with Rain one evening, and was sharing I wasn't sure if I wanted to continue with Food Wednesdays, do to the low participation and also since there are really so many link ups now almost every day. Many are art related which most of us love, but do we have time for yet another link up for food? I mentioned that I was seriously thinking of dropping it in September.  Rain says I would love to take it over if you don't mind that I do?  Thinking about that for a few minutes   "I would love that"  as Rain already has a wonderful community for her Rain's Art Date and she also loves to share food in her posts as well. A perfect pairing-art and food.

 Soooo starting July 14 Rain will be hosting Rain's Art and Dinner Date. She posts late on Wednesdays-so I think this will be perfect for us. Many of you that are linking up and sharing on Food Wednesdays also participate for Rains Art Date too, so I am hoping you will love Rain's Art and Dinner Date.  Also with Rain this will revert back to weekly. Art is also photography, however you inerperet art

  Thoughts? I am excited and hope you are too. 

Update: here is Rain's post about the new Art and Dinner Date link up

   I was so busy cooking up sides for our long weekend, that I totally forgot to take photos. I am bad about food photos.

  I wanted to share the bean recipe that I came across last year when I was posting for recipes using cast iron. This is from Taste of Home Root Beer Baked Beans 

  Photo from the site.

Reading through the ingredients wow it is heavy in carbs and sugar but it just sounded really good, so I copied and saved the recipe.  

   This came out really delicious, to save on a little sugar I used diet root beer, and I used no sugar apple pie filling-the Wal mart brand was really good, I think they may have used Splenda for the sweetener.  I didn't add the shredded cheese at the end, and I didn't have the ancho chili peppers on hand so I used hot red pepper flakes. 

  For such different ingredients added to the pork and beans this was really delicious. I also don't keep bacon around so I used the all natural dried bacon bits. For just the two of us I cut the recipe in half.  I would make this again, we both really loved the apples and you don't taste the root beer. I did add just a little bit of blackstrap molasses to my beans.

  Last week I also grabbed my cast iron grill pan and grilled a turkey tenderloin-these are so delicious grilled this way-always moist

Now it's your turn to share your Food Wednesdays

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