Spicy Maple Baked Bean and Burger Soup - I Feel Like Cooking

Ingredients

• 1 lb lean hamburger meat
• 3 celery stalk chopped (about ½ C)
• 2 large carrots chopped (about ½ C)
• ½ large white onion (about 1 C)
• 1/3 C packed brown sugar
• ¼ C red pepper jelly
• 1 heaping T Horlacher’s seasoning
• 1 C water
• 1 t salt
• 1 t pepper
• 1 28 oz can Bush’s maple, bacon baked beans
• 1 28 oz can Bush’s original baked beans
• 2 T oil
• 3 sprigs of fresh thyme