When my sister and her husband visited recently just after Christmas, I wanted to step away from all the holiday flavors and go with something different so I pulled out this family favorite – Lemon-Greek Chicken. The seasonings are just perfect.
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Cheddar Cornbread Muffins
If you’re a bread-lover, you know how hard it is to eat a savory meal and pass up the corn bread or the biscuits. In the effort of trying not to eat too many carbs, I really try to limit how much bread I’m consuming.
I love finding recipes that taste “normal,” yet are lower in calories and fat. Enter the Cheddar Cornbread recipe!
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Pork Chops, Peas and Potato Dish
I recently saw someone posting about their plan for meals, stating that they were looking for an easy way to have dinner at home. Their plan was to make the same recipe each weeknight. You know what? You don’t have to have Spaghetti every Monday and Tacos every Tuesday and Meatloaf every Wednesday to get supper on the table. How? Find recipes that make it easier. Like…
What To Do With that Ham Bone?
Holiday meals are creeping up on us, believe it or not! Last weekend I baked a Smithfield Brown sugar glazed ham (it’s one of the best I’ve ever bought!). After I sliced all the meat off, I tucked the bone into a freezer bag and put it in the fridge. I knew that bone had all kinds of possibilities! I usually always make Senate Bean Soup with our Christmas ham bone, but I wanted to venture out and try a new recipe.
I found this a recipe for Creamy Ham and Potato Soup and it sounded savory and delicious. It also didn’t take hours to make! The recipe suggested making ham stock with the bone and using that as the base of the soup. That’s exactly what I did. All that took was popping the bone into a stock pot with water to cover and simmering it for an hour. Easy peasy.
Here’s the simple recipe with my slight changes:
Creamy Ham and Potato Soup
NGREDIENTS
- 1/3 cup unsalted butter
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 1 cup large carrot peeled and diced
- 1/2 cup diced celery
- 3 cups peeled and diced potatoes
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 1 1/2 cups cooked ham, diced
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour (plain flour)
- 2Â cups Ham Stock or chicken broth
- 2 teaspoons chicken Bouillon
- 3 cups milkÂ
- 1Â pinch of salt, if neededÂ
- fresh cracked black pepper
INSTRUCTIONS
- Heat the butter in a pot over medium heat. Sauté the onion, carrots, celery until beginning to soften (about 4 minutes).
- Add the potatoes, cook for 2 minutes, then add the garlic and sauté until fragrant (about 30 seconds).
- Mix the flour through and cook for 2 minutes.
- Stir in stock and bouillon and ham, mixing all ingredients together. Increase heat and bring to a boil until potatoes are ‘just’ fork tender, about 10-12 minutes.
- Reduce heat to medium-low, add the milk and stir over the heat until thickened (about 5 minutes).
- Add more and salt and pepper, as needed
- Serve warm.
This was so savory! I was so happy to make such good use of that flavorful ham bone! It made a whole pot of ham stock, so now I also have more frozen for a couple more recipes of this wonderful soup!
To make your own ham stock, place the ham bone in a stock pot and cover with water. Bring it to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for one hour. Discard bone. How easy is that?!
If you don’t have a ham bone on hand, you can purchase a bone at Honey Bake Ham! But I’d also encourage you to save this for those holiday hams in your future!
Here are a couple of our other favorite savory soups:
Sausage Corn Chowder
Chicken Gnocchi
Happy ham bone season!
Big Mac Salad
These hot August days sometimes turn my appetite away from heavy, hot foods to cold, refreshing salads. But when you need some protein, and you want more than a garden salad, what do you do?
You add ingredients to the salad that have the taste of a Big Mac without the heaviness or the calories of a burger! This Big Mac Salad is basically a deconstructed hamburger without the bun. But it’s hearty and delicious!
Here’s how you make it:
Big Mac Salad
Ingredients
- 1 lb Ground beef
- 1 tsp Sea salt
- 1/4 tsp Black pepper
- 8 oz Romaine lettuce (or iceberg if desired)
- 1 cup Tomatoes (chopped)
- 3/4 cup Reduced Fat Cheddar cheese (shredded)
- 1/2 cup Pickles (diced)
DRESSING
- 1/2 cup Light Mayonnaise
- 2 tbsp Pickles (diced)
- 2 tsp Mustard
- 1 tsp White vinegar
- 1/2 tsp Smoked paprika
- 1 1/2 tbsp sweetener of choice
- Brown ground beef, adding salt and pepper. Break beef up into small crumbles as it cooks.
- In a large bowl, add lettuce, tomatoes, cheese and pickles. Top with cooked ground beef. Top with dressing just before serving.
You can also assemble each salad on the plates as I did in the photos here. - For Dressing:
Mix ingredients in a mason jar. Add warm water or oil to make it a pouring consistency .
This meal is also super fast and can be on the table in less than 30 minutes – probably faster than you could run to the local fast food restaurant and get served! It’s the perfect meal on a hot day, or a day when you want something delicious, but healthier than a hamburger!
What do you eat when it’s hot outside?
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