Hot Pockets

For dinner tonight I saw on Rachael Ray this week or maybe last week, they made hot pockets and they looked so good so that is what we are having tonight for dinner.
Chicken, Broccoli and Cheese
Ham and Cheese
and pizza hot pockets. Plus making a pizza for my daughter. I can't wait will try to remember to take a photo for you all.

Update
I made my hot pockets and they came out really great. My family said they were the best
here are some picks but they didn't come out really great

chicken, broccoli with some alfredo sauce and creamy Havarti cheese 

                                                                     ham and montery jack cheese

                                                pepperoni and mozzarella cheese

Our Anniversary

Yes, my anniversary is on Halloween and on purpose too. LOL
For one reason I love Halloween so much. Secondly my husband can always remember our anniversary.
Since it was our anniversary, I didn't cook. We had Mr. Mikes which is the local seafood place here. Haddock, scallops, fries, onion rings and some macaroni salad and let me just tell you how good dinner was. OMG It was sooooooooooo good. I love Mr. Mikes.
Happy Halloween everyone,.

Split Pea Soup

I had a left over ham bone from Sunday's dinner of baked ham and Monday's dinner of Scalloped Potatoes and ham that I decided to try my hand at homemade split pea soup. I love peas but nobody else in my family likes them. So by bff Cindy and I get together every week and make things our families won't eat that have lots of veggies and things they won't eat.
Well, my soup came out so good, I was so proud of myself.

I took two different recipes and made my own soup.
Boiled my ham one in 6 cups of water for an hour and then just let it sit till I was ready to make my soup.
took the meat off the bone, and removed at much fat from the broth that I could.
cut the meat into bit size pieces, along with the leftover ham.

This is one of the recipes I modified, the other was on the back of the pea bag.

1 lb bag of slit peas, rinsed and sorted
1 can of chicken broth
5 cups water of which I used the broth I made with the ham bone and what ever I was lacking I used water
2 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed I didn't add these
2 large onions, chopped
2 medium carrots, bite size
2 cups cubed cooked ham
1/2 cup chopped celery
1 teaspoon dried marjoram
1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
1 teaspoon rubbed sage
1/2 to 1 teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoon dried thyme

Throw everything in the pot, bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, stirring occasionally.

Smothered Chicken By Carla Hall

I made this for dinner tonight and it was so good again. Yes the second time I have made it, if you haven't tried this you need too. It's really good even my daughter will eat it without the gravy part of course. Gee children have no idea what they are missing by not eating gravy. LOL
check out the recipe. It's easy to out together.

http://oasewhatsfordinner.blogspot.com/2014/02/smothered-chicken-with-rice.html

Corn beef Hash

Yes I am one of those people who just loves corn beef hash. I used to love the one in the can, but as age creeps up on ya so does too much sodium. So for quite a few years I didn't have it unless a restaurant we would go too, served it. Till I started watching and having an affair with Food Network. LOL My favorite show Drive In, Diners and Dives. I got courage one day after having some left over corn beef to try my hand at making my own. So I found a couple recipes that I like what was in them and made my own.
I combined what I like best about the two recipes and built it from there and if I have to say so myself it's an awesome recipe.

Oase's Corn Beef Hash

5 to 6 left over boiled potatoes
1/2 to 1 pound of corn beef
1 small red pepper
1 small onion chopped
2 tsp of Thyme
2 tbsp of Worcestershire sauce
2 tsp prepared mustard
3 cloves of garlic minced
butter and olive oil

Cut everything into bite size pieces.  In a large fry pan add a little bit of olive oil and couple pats of butter. Fry your potatoes till nice and brown, remove from pan.
Add onion to pan and little more butter if you need it, saute till soft, adding your red pepper and cook till softened.
Add cornbeef and saute till nice and brown, add potatoes to warm them up again.
Add Thyme, Worcestershire sauce and mustard, combine well. Fry up a couple of
sunny side up eggs, add to the top of your hash and enjoy.

Scallop Potatoes and Ham

Don't you just get tired of all the same meals week after week after week? I know I do, it drives me nuts. As my oven self cleans, which by the way smells incredible bad, I mean it smells bad. I decided to blog, I such at blogging, really I do.
I decided Sunday to make just the basic baked ham dinner, so I could have the left overs for Scalloped Potatoes and ham, one of my favorite comfort foods. I made that last night for dinner. Here is my recipe but I didn't take a picture, forgot.

Scallop Potatoes and Ham

however much ham you want in your dish cut it into bite size pieces
peel and slice about 3 pounds of potatoes, I used Russet cause that is what I had on hand
8 oz of cheese, I used Sargento's 6 Cheese Italian blend, most times thou I just use either Parmensan
or Astiago cheese.
2 cups of milk
1 1/2 cups of heavy cream
3 cloves of garlic minced
1 small onion minced
3 pinches of Nutmet
1 tsp of thyme
black pepper to taste

Saute your minced onion in a little bit of butter in a medium size pan, when soft and translucent add your minced garlic, black pepper and cook till the garlic is fragent, about 40 seconds. Add thyme, nutmeg, milk and heavy cream and just let it warm on the stove on low.
Slice your potatoes very thin, I use a mandoline to slice mine.
Spray a large baking dish. If you keep your layers of potatoes to 3 doesn't take forever to cook
Put a layer of potatoes, sprinkle with cheese and ladel some of the milk on top, keep doing that till you us your potates, ending with some cream on top and cheese.
Bake in 350 degree oven for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Comes out so so good.