A couple of summer time side dishes [View All]

Pasta salad:

I'm from Chicago and this is a Midwest specialty.

Dice up small 2 green peppers, an onion, and 6(or more-I use 10)hard boiled egg whites. Don't use the yolks. Boil, drain, rinse, and cool off some pasta. Use however much you want. I use small shells, ziti, or salad pasta. Combine everything together with a drained and rinsed small can of sliced olives. Add mayonnaise. Use a lot of Hellmann's mayonnaise. I use almost a whole quart. Add salt and pepper to taste. I add some garlic powder too but it is optional. Spread the mixture out on a serving platter and cover the top of it with Kraft parmesan cheese. Use a lot. Cover the entire thing with Saran wrap and put it in the icebox overnight. It tastes better the next day. Serve cold.

Yankee baked beans:

Dice up a green pepper, an onion, and some crispy bacon you have fried up and drained(about 10 pieces). Open up 3 or 4 cans of pork and beans. Drain the juice. Spray Pam in a pyrex baking dish. Add the beans, bacon, green pepper, and onions. Squirt about 3 or 4 tablespoons of mustard and put in about a half a cup of brown sugar. Mix everything up real good. Press the mixture down in the pyrex baking dish. Bake it on the middle shelf of the oven at 325 for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours or until the juice bubbles out of the dish. Let it cool off and cover it with Saran wrap and put it in the icebox overnight. Serve cold.