Honey Glazed Ham

In my opinion...If anything will be called "world's best", it will be THIS. Words cannot describe how amazing this ham was.

The recipe calls for 4lbs of ham, I had a 10lb one. Therefore, it cannot fit in a 5qt crock pot....Into the oven it went! I doubled the recipe so it was 3 cups of ginger ale to start with. Covered it with foil and put it in at 300 for 5 hours. Then, I poured on 1/2c honey mixed with 1t ground cloves, 1t ground mustard and 1/2t ground cinnamon.

The end result was heaven. Earlier I told some online friends about this ham and I used words I wont use on here...that's how good.

Behold the ham....

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I felt I would be doing the ham injustice if I didn't try to make a nice dinner to surround it. So, I had ham, Grands flaky biscuits, fresh (boiled) broccoli and fresh cut fruit. And some yummy yummy iced tea.

Tonight's a good night.....

Now go make the ham.

Pumpkin Spice Latte- Crock Pot!

Following my previous post, Noah got his steamer and I got a pumpkin spice latte (decaf) and it reminded me I had a Pin for that. A crock pot one at that.

After we got home, I looked it up and saw we had all the ingredients (minus the whipped cream I ate the day before....). After debating all day if I should make it or not, I whipped up a batch and set it. The house smells divine and it taste almost exactly like the one from Starbucks. So much so, that I decided to put it in my cup from there!

It was too hot for me to get instant gratification from, so to cool it off, I added two spoonfulls of Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream! SO GOOD.

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11/06/2012- Baked Potato Soup

This recipe is right up there with the sausage and potato casserole. It was incredibly easy and insanely delicious. I invited our neighbor, Chris, over for dinner that night and he kept saying how good it was and ended up having three bowls and took one home with him.

Noah helped me put it all together and loved helping. When it came time to test the soup, however, he was adamant that he hated it, before he tried it. Once he tried it, though, he was all about that soup. You know if Noah eats it, it's good.

We went to the store to get some bacon bits and I also picked up a loaf of artisan wheat bread. It was divine.

There was enough in there to let Chris have his three bowls, me have two, Noah and Aaron have one, send some home with Chris and have enough leftover for lunch the next day. You can bet I'll be making that again! Now I just need to find some cheap chicken broth like I did (it was on sale for $0.68 per 14.5fl oz can) and I'll be making that soup like a mad woman!

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11/04/2012- Apple and Honey Pork Loin

I like pork and I like apples. I had pork and I had apples. Seems to work well, right? Well, it smelled good, and looked ok and fell apart wonderfully. Honestly though, it didn't taste all that great. I put it on a Grand's Flaky Biscuit with some honey BBQ to give it flavor. The apples and honey didn't do that much for it. I recommend trying it because you must might like it.

It was pretty simple sounding, but I think I made it more complicated than it should be. My pork was actually two put together. I didn't know that until I opened it. So, instead of cutting it in half to have two shorter ones I had two long ones. I followed the directions like it said, but the apples didn't cover the bottom or the top. I also think I put too much cinnamon on.

In the end, it was mushy from the apples and my house smelled like apple cinnamon. Ha, can't complain much about the smell.

This was after it was all cooked and before it was pulled apart/out.

And after it was pulled apart. It literally fell apart as we took it out.

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10/27/2012- Chili and Hot Dogopus

10/27/2012- Chili, Hot Dogopus

What goes together better than chili, hot dogs and spaghetti? Trick question, I didn't put them together and I don't see how on earth that'd taste good. I had cooked up 3lbs of ground beef and separated it out into one pound bags. I needed to figure out what to do with my cooked beef, and chili was a good option. It was cold, chili's warm and the perfect fall food/soup. So, off to Pinterest I went. I didn't have a packet of chili mix, so that was out. There needed to be a simple recipe for me to use. Thankfully, I found it.

This chili was delicious. Typically, I'm a chili snob. I prefer the packet version with my two cans of whatever it is I add and call it good. This, beat it out of the park by far. It was simple it was tasty and it wasn't spicy. We also made up some yummy corn bread to put in/on it as well.

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Noah also got a special treat, we made (what I call) a hot dogopus. What's that you ask? It's a hot dog with spaghetti legs!!!

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It's really simple, cut up your hot dog, break apart your spaghetti and stick it in then boil. Easy peasy. Noah had fun making the legs, watching the water and helping me drain (don't worry, I am uber protective of him and watch every move). I think he had a bit of a hard time realizing that it's ok for two such different foods to combine. After eating the first one, however, he didn't care and ate them all up!

10/23/2012- Beef Stroganoff, Cold Compress and Cloud Dough

Today was a busy day Pinterest wise. Aaron was home and hurting because he did a 10 mile run a couple days before and his knee was acting up. So, after I started dinner, I made him a cold compress that I found on Pinterest.

First was dinner, Beef Stroganoff made in the Crock Pot! It was VERY delicious. I did, however, forget to put in the cream cheese at the end. I don't know if I would have liked it more or less, but either way, it was yummy!

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The compress is simple, Blue Dawn and rubbing alcohol in a baggie. Simple enough right? Yes, if your bag doesn't leak :-/ Ours did, but I put it inside another bag and put it in the freezer. It'd be good for a quick fix, but certainly not for long bouts of "healing". I took it out and it melted very quickly. I am keeping it to have on hand for helping Noah if he gets hurt. A good 5 minutes should come of it, otherwise it's useless.

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The final project was something called "cloud dough". Basically, it's a crap ton of flour and baby oil. 8 cups of flour to one cup baby oil and it's essentially soft sand like stuff. It's messy but fun!

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10/17/2012 - Chicken Noodle Soup

If you read the family blog, you'd know this was right about the time we were all beaten down with colds. Noah got it first, gave it to Mason and then I got it. It was horrible. Aaron was the only survivor. So, it worked perfectly that this day was chicken nooodle soup day. There was only one problem....My crock pot wasn't big enough. I had to rush to the store that morning, buy chicken broth/stalk rush home, throw it all in and then, it overflowed. So, I called my grandma, desperate for help, and she suggested using my large pot with tin foil on top. DING! It worked great. I had to add four cups of water because there simply wasnt enough liquid for it to be any where near able to cook the noodles, but it worked. Also, my noodles came out SO mushy. It was more like a goulash than soup. We threw in some crackers and called it good though. Not much gets us down, as long as we can eat it and it's somewhat tasty, we're good.

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*After actually going back to write down recipes, I realized in the madness that was that morning, I didn't read it all. I simply read "combine all ingredients". I didn't read "except noodles". So....that's why my noodles were nasty mushy and there wasn't enough liquid. SO, I'll be redoing it next week and I'll update the results with pictures too.

9/27/2012 - Crock Pot Applesauce

I absolutely love applesauce and so do Aaron and Noah, so it only made sense to make my own right? It was SO easy. I chopped up a TON (probably 30) apples and made two batches of it. I had several of different kinds of apples mixed in with 5T brown sugar and some lemon juice and a cinnamon stick. I forgot to put in the lemon peel and I actually used too much brown sugar, but it was good.

I really didn't want it to be chunky, something about it just creeps me out, so I asked my ever so wonderful husband to go get me an immersion blender and some Mason Jars. Poor guy had to search high and low at Target for the jars that were there the day before (but weren't when he went) and call me multiple times asking which blender and where to get jars (please excuse the horridly long sentence). Love that man.

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I loved putting it all in jars after blending the heck out of it!