I’m sure we all have our own version of comfort food. Mine happens to be old fashioned Southern cooking. It not only fills the tummy but it warms the heart as well.

Monday, I put blackeyed peas with smoked pork and onions in the crock pot. It cooked all night long. Then,  Tuesday morning I put the peas in the fridge, washed the crock pot sleeve, and put in green beans from the freezer.

Now, green beans aren’t normally that special. It’s all in the way you fix them.

I put about 4 cups of frozen green beans in the bottom of the crock pot. On top of that I put about 3/4 cup brown sugar, 4 slices of bacon, cut up into 1 inch pieces, a little salt and pepper, and about 1/2 cup of water. I stirred it a little to mix things together. Not a difficult recipe at all, is it?

I turned the crock pot on low and let it cook all day evening while we were at work. The green beans were done to a turn when we got home and the whole house smelled of home cooking.

I threw together a small pan of sweet cornbread and we fixed a half-gallon of sweet southern-style iced tea. It was a meal fit for a king, to us!

Not a dieter’s delight by any means, but hearty and wholesome nonetheless. It was a welcomed meal after dealing with fast food all evening.

There are still lots of peas left and a tad bit of cornbread, so we’ll eat those again tomorrow night but will have some kind of potato with them then. I will probably also open a can of mustard greens or turnip greens to have as a side.

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