Play It Again, Ham: 10 Hearty Ham Dishes

     I found a big ham for 99 cents a pound at the store.  The kids had friends over on Friday night and it fed the crowd with plenty to spare.  For our company night I served the ham with mac and cheese and mixed veggies.  I've often used leftovers to make a new dinner creation.  The great thing about ham I found is that it can be used for any meal.  Good luck with your sequels!


10 Hamtastic Meals:

1. Ham steaks for breakfast with eggs.

2. Chef Salad  with ham and chicken, turkey, or roast beef

3. Scalloped Potatoes

4. Pea Soup

5. Ham Sandwiches

6. Ham Salad Sandwiches

7. Ham and Broccoli Pie

8. Ham and Cheese Hot Pockets/Calzones

9. Bean Soup

10. Scrambled eggs with diced ham/ Denver Omelet

Fiesta Pie: leftovers madeover

Taco Pie and please don't call it quiche

   At the end of the week we had a medley of leftovers: a barbecued chicken breast, a bit of steak, and half a serving of taco meat and re fried beans.  I could give everyone an ounce of meat with a vegetable on the side, but that seemed too much like reruns.  It was time for this food to write an alternate ending.  What I had plenty of in the fridge was eggs.  They had just arrived fresh from my neighbor's chickens.  

   I spied this new recipe in the gluten free cookbook. I sliced up the meat and layered in the pan like lasagna.  Then I put in the re fried beans, chopped peppers and poured the  whisked eggs over everything. Into the oven it went, skipping the skillet step to cook until firm.  With a dollop of plain yogurt and a splash of salsa the fiesta taco pie was served. 

Frittata from: Deliciously G-Free by Elisabeth Hasselbeck

10 eggs

1/4 cup half-and-half

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

2 tablespoons olive oil

1/2 yellow onion, diced

1/2 green bell pepper, seeded and diced

1 cup of canned black beans, drained and well rinsed

1 cup grated mozzarella or cheddar cheese

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place the eggs, half-and-half, salt, and pepper in a large bowl. Whisk to combine and set aside. Heat an 8-inch ovenproof skillet with high sides over medium-high heat. Add 1 tablespoon of olive oil, onion, and pepper, Cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, 3 to 4 minutes. Transfer to small bowl. In the skillet add the egg mixture and cook 1 minute until the edges bubble. Pull cooked egg to center of the pan.  Scatter the cooked vegetables, beans and cheese over the egg. Transfer the skillet to the oven and and bake for 10 to 12 minutes until firm. Let cool for 5 minutes. 

Egg Mick Muff-FUN

Eggs Make a Comeback With the Egg Mick Muff-Fun!

  

My kids went on an egg strike as in anything that resembled an egg would not pass their lips without an enormous amount of struggle.  This surprised me since we get our wonderful free-range eggs from our neighbor.  They are the best eggs with rich, golden yolks.

   So when I asked them this morning, would you like egg mcmuffins for breakfast like at McDonalds, I was astounded when they answered a resounding yes.  I was just going to toast English muffins with peanut butter if they said no thank you to the eggs. 

Browning the Turkey Sausage

   I started making the homemade turkey sausage. Once that was in the pan I popped the first English muffin in the toaster.  Once the sausage was done, I started the eggs.  They like when I break their egg yolks so they aren't messy, but I left mine whole. I flipped the eggs when they were done on one side and added a half of a slice of American cheese (not the processed kind) turning off the pan to  let the cheese melt while I prepped the remaining muffins.

   I asked my kids if they would rather have homemade breakfast or go to McDonalds.  My son's response was, "This is cheaper since you don't have to pay for gas."  With the English Muffins selling for 50 cents a six pack at Aldi it is a great deal.  They devoured their "special breakfast" and I can't wait to make them again.
  

Frambled

   I was distracted this morning while making breakfast.  I cracked five eggs in the pan and then was called away.  I had planned on scrambling them in the pan, but by the time I got back they were set into one enormous fried egg. 

   I did my best to scramble the yolks and called them "frambled" which is half fried and half scrambled.  It reflected how I was feeling. Fried because I was tired and scrambled for turning in different directions until I was dizzy.

   In an amusing twist of events, instead of a ruined meal to start the day, the breakfast turned out to be a big hit.  Apparently it's all in how you sell it.  What has you feeling frambled?