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Gene's Slow Cooker Pork and BBQ Baked Beans over Sweet Potatoes

 

 Brags go out to the hubs for this little wonderful dinner last night (and then "lunch" again at 0100 at work). So yummy, so easy, so....manly (but this chick digs it too!).  I woke up yesterday afternoon to the smell of something delicious floating out of the slow cooker but wasn't allowed to tinker with The Man's meal-making.  No problem.  I love to cook but I love to be cooked for on my work and sleep days. No complaints from me at all! and, boy, was I in heaven when he was finished.

The basic idea is that he made pinto "brown" beans but instead of the usual ham, he used boneless country ribs for the seasoning meat.  Then he added an easy but really tasty BBQ sauce (Steven Raichlen, of course!) and served it ladled over microwaved sweet potatoes and with a big side of steamed of broccoli. It was divine!  Both times!

A word about the nutrition counts.  I am not a low-carb at any cost diet fan.  I am a good whole food vs processed food (carb) girl.   Sweet Potatoes? Yes!  Beans? Yes!  Hostess Cupcakes? Yeeee....NOOOOOO!  So while this recipe does, indeed, contain 75 carbs it also balances that out with 20, (TWENTY) grams of fiber. Those are very good carbs, my friends, and we heartily enjoyed every one of them. 

I'm Not the Only Cook in the House: Gene's Roasted Chicken and Breakfast for Dinner

While I've been out of the loop a bit with a bad back, Gene's been taking up most of the slack around the house which I really appreciate! He's been held back by intimidation of me.  I'm not saying that to embarrass him but I really never considered it until several of our friends admitted they were intimidated to cook for me too.  I don't mean to be intimidating in the kitchen and don't consider myself to be any kind of snobby food gourmande but I get it now.  For all of us who have blogs and are fairly knowledgeable about cooking, it can be intimidating to people who don't have as much experience in the kitchen. For me, it's something that always came naturally because as the oldest and a daughter in a family of five kids I was my mother's sargeant-at-arms in the kitchen for as long as I can remember so I never had to cross that more adult psychological hurdle of "Can I learn to do something that seems hard?"  I never knew cooking could be hard so I never had to face that mind game.

Gene is over the hurdle and doing a wonderful job!

 

I love this pic of the roasted chicken butt but I wanted to make sure you all saw how he did this.

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