Our autumn pot luck, food for thought. Baked beans with a twist.

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We had a pot luck and then a drumming/meditation. I made baked beans with kielbassa. There was also salmon, cole slaw, german cholocate cake with fondant and blackberry buckel. I drank lots of water because the salt level was a little high for me. This was only the 3rd time I've made baked beans. 2 successes and 1 failure. Most people sugar and salt the heck out of their baked beans in my area. They put so much molasses that the white beans are almost black. I just put brown sugar. The often put sooo much catch up that they taste like campbell's baked beans. I went to an old time cook book that said to just put enough in to get rid of or cover the earthy (dirt) taste. I used black pepper, dried onions and a couple of onions from my garden (little green onion), some brown sugar, catchup and small slices of kielbassa. My husband said he would have liked it better with bacon. So have you ever made something with a twist to it? One unusual ingredient? Have you ever had a pot luck and then a meditation? We learned to eat food, drum/meditate, and then have desert years ago. OR else all we want to do is go to sleep. So have you learned to change anything like the sequence or order that you do things?