I love reading The Family Homestead website, and Crystal's lovely blog everyday.  LOL!  And dream I was able to do all she does.  I'm still taking baby steps in the homesteading frugal life.  Doing my best to live the country life in a somewhat crowded neighborhood. With a future dream (and belief) that my Husband and I will have a little more land to live the country life proper.  Bigger garden, more room for Hubby's projects,  the recycling that he does,  and nature beautiful nature all around I see in our future. 

Don't get me wrong, I love and very much appreciate our little house and bit of earth we have.  So many now a days our losing there houses/land to foreclosures. And I'm happy and thank God we are stable right here.  I realize how blessed we are not to worry of losing our home. But I can't deny a vision of the future, and belief in my heart that this is not where we will be years down the road. 

LOL! Well enough rambling on to the FOOD!

Well I was just taken with the sight of this recipe and knew I had to try it.  I fix soup beans and cornbread all the time.  Once a week would be a safe statement.  SO I was happy to see a twist to that.  We both love beans and italian food so this was perfect.

The only things I changed was that I used mixed beans (pinto/northern), and turkey sausge, and I had a little yellow pepper instead of green.  I'm always trying to cut  the fat out.  And I cooked them in the crockpot.  I've always cooked my beans in a crockpot.

Here's the link to the recipe.  http://www.thefamilyhomestead.com/italianpintobeans.htm

Here's what mine looked like.

And this is what I made to go with it.  I call them my Italian Biscuits, I always make these with spaghetti or lasagna. My husband LOVES  them!!!

Here's the recipe.

ITALIAN BISCUITS

• 2 cups Biscuit mix 
• 2/3 cup milk
• 1/2 cup shredded mozzerella cheese
• 1 tbs of itailian seasoning (more if you like)
• Garlic powder to taste 
• I also sprinkle in a little parmesean

Topping after baked:

• 2 tbs butter melted
• 1/2 tsp or more of Garlic powder (to suit taste)
• spinkling of parmasean cheese

Bake at 450 degrees.  Mix ingredients and drop by spoonfuls onto a baking sheet.    I then sprinkle more itailian season and garlic power on top before baking.   Bake 10 min. (or depending on you oven, watch them).

When done brush them with butter mixture.

**I use light butter at all times,  and sometimes fat free milk and the are still great. I've even used fat free cheese when I have it.

Have a good day everyone. Blessing to you.

Hugs, Kat