The title of last night's dinner is slightly misleading. The recipe is an old one that I've had for years and it does call for a can of baked beans, one of kidney beans and of navy beans, but just as important is the ground beef, onion and bacon that is browned initially and then simmered with the beans in a tasty sauce that includes ketchup, bbq sauce, molasses, mustard and chili powder. So I think that what we have here is really more of a sweet, smoky version of chili, and for me the signature and star of the dish is bacon (yum), not beans.
As a post script: I believe that chili is NOT a summer dish but the weather has been extremely unseasonable these last few days of July, with temperatures dropping into the fifties overnight. A hot bowl on the menu proved to be quite appropriate.
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