Fantastic recipe. Simple, Quick and great tasting. I love French Onion soup and have only before had it at dinner out so it was my first time making it. Was also pretty cheap to make considering it costs $7 a bowl here. I followed the recipe pretty much exact. I used though 1 white onion and 1 vidale onion. I did brown the onions. I also got some jalapeno/cheese rolls from our local bakery guy for very cheap at the market so I cut those up into croutons and cooked them until they were a little crisp. Amazing!

Reviewed On: Jul. 27, 2009

Great recipe, my first time making baked beans from scratch and came out great. The night before I soaked pinto beans in ice cold water. I first fried up the bacon in a deep pan. I removed the bacon and put aside for later. I used that same pan with the fat and bacon bits to cook the beans for almost 1.5 hrs. This simmered the water down to very little so I didn't remove the water since I figured there was a lot of flavor in the water. After that I just added the bbq sauce ingredients minus the brown sugar (all still in the same pot). I also added about 1/4 teaspoon of emeril's essense and 1/4 teaspoon of dried chiptole powder too. After the sauce was done, I added the bacon all crumbled up and some left over ground taco meat I had in the fridge from the previous night. Baked it all in the oven for about 3 hours. Came out great!

Reviewed On: Jul. 27, 2009

Great recipe! Very easy and tastes light and refreshing. I used fresh raspberries along with a raspberry angel food cake I got from the market. It's a very forgiving flexible recipe. Everyone enjoyed it and went back for seconds.

Reviewed On: Sep. 22, 2008