Corinne's Brownies

 4 eggs, well beaten

2 cups sugar

3/4 cup melted margarine or butter

1 1/2 cup flour

1/2 cup cocoa

Pinch of salt

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup chopped nuts

1/2 lb. Hershey bar

Mix the eggs, sugar and butter together. 

Add the flour, cocoa, salt and vanilla.

Mix well. 

Add chopped nuts. 

Spread batter in greased 9x13 pan.

Bake at 350 for 25 -30 minutes. Frost with chocolate broken into small pieces and placed on the brownies as soon as they get out of the oven. Spread over entire top. Cut into squares when cooled.

One of Barb's favorites. Original recipe came from Mrs. Kipp, our neighbor on Kildare Avenue in Chicago. Never did know who Corinne is!

Aunt Betty's Sloppy Joes

 1 lb. ground beef

1c. chopped peppers

1c. chopped onions

1T. sugar

1T. prepared mustard

1T. vinegar

1/2 t. salt

1 c. ketchup

Brown meat until crumbly and cooked through. Drain the grease. Add the remaining ingredients. Cover and simmer about 30 minutes. Serve on buns.

You can make variations on the recipe. If you don't like peppers than don't use them. If you like less onion don't put in a whole cup. I don't put in the extra tablespoon of sugar because I think the ketchup is plenty sweet already.

Seasoned with Love St. Cletus Parish Cookbook 1988

Baked Beans Weber Style

 1 can (31 oz.) pork and beans with tomato sauce

1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar

1 small onion finely chopped

1/4 cup catsup

1 t. yellow mustard

1/2 t. salt

Dash of pepper

3 slices bacon, cut in quarters

Combine and mix first 8 ingredients; pour into casserole. Cover beans with bacon pieces. Center casserole on cooking grill' cover kettle and heat about 45 minutes or until piping hot. Yield 4-6 servings.

This is from the Weber cookbook Barbecuing the Weber Covered Way Copyright 1979 and 1972 by Tested Recipe Publishers, Inc.

I use these basic proportions and add or subtract ingredients depending on my audience. I also cook them down on the top of the stove the day before. I usually don't add bacon because I don't have it around.  I've also added an extra can of straight up beans that have been drained to make it thicker and less runny. Cooking it down thickens up the sauce and mellows the onion.