Crazy Crust Pizza

This thin crust pizza is made with liquid batter for the crust and meat that cooks into the crust before topping with sauce and cheese!

I was really intrigued by this pizza - initially because of the name. Why is the crust crazy? Then reading the method behind it and I was like...okay this is a little crazy! You have a liquid batter and the meat goes onto it before the crust bakes?! Then comes pizza sauce and cheese. I reserved judgment until it was made and I had no problems whatsoever. It turned out beautifully and we all really enjoyed it. I mean, it was so easy and the crust was really yummy. The original recipe maker said they do different toppings all the time, so it doesn't have to be this specifically - try whatever combo sounds good to you!

Eggs Benedict

The most decadent breakfast out there with toasted muffins, ham, a poached egg, and rich hollandaise sauce.

I am back finally about 2 years later to post a successful eggs benedict! I did it!! :) I posted about my first attempt that was super stressful and didn't end up in a successful hollandaise or poached egg. I did a lot of research and had already tried to figure out what to do if the sauce broke. This video helped me a ton. I played it over and over again when I was preparing and while I was doing it. I tried my best to learn the timing of how to do it, so I didn't mess it up. Time management is key! I used a combination of Gimme Some Oven and Gordon Ramsay for this recipe. I want to say I would remove my sauce from the heat and whisk with a small splash of boiling water in vigorously until it came back together. I had to do it multiple times but it did finally work and was a beautiful sauce!

Meat Lovers' Sheet Pan Pizza

Find the recipe on The Recipe Jackpot

White Bean and Collards Soup

This soup has greens and beans...and barbecue sauce - it's a little sweet with a smoky flavor and oh so good!

I was all over this recipe when I found it because ham/bacon and bean soup is my favorite soup and this one has COLLARD GREENS. I was born and raised in Minnesota. So I did not grow up eating Southern food at all. The first time I had greens was in New York when we did a Thanksgiving dinner with my husband's battles from his unit and I'm obsessed. I love collard greens so much. I was intrigued by the barbecue sauce and I believe I used the spicy kind from Sweet Baby Rays. It adds a little sweetness and some smokiness to the soup which I found to be very satisfying. All-in-all this soup was definitely a keeper!

Ham & Corn Chowder

Potato soup loaded up with ham and corn and seasoned with a bit of thyme for a comforting cool weather meal

Hello, hello! If you notice that some of my posts are a little behind, that's due to me being in the tail-end of my bachelor's degree program. I am down to 2 classes. I'm in a self-paced program, so I usually work on 1 class at a time, but I get to work on the final 2 together. I'm really excited. I should be done by Halloween if I can keep my quick pacing up. I decided since I have to wait on approval for those next 2 classes to work on this week's posts so they aren't late :)

This soup is potato soup with ham and corn. It's a very simple recipe but you don't need something extravagant for it to be a great tasting meal. The bit of thyme, onion, and garlic really make this soup a fantastic one.

Make Ahead Breakfast Scrambles

Easy prep and room for so much variety with these scrambles that are ready to cook in the morning!

I have never really gotten into meal prep except for the period of time where Nick was doing the keto diet and we found this recipe for breakfast scrambles. They don't take long at all to prep, are relatively inexpensive, and they don't take long to cook either. I made two different varieties: jalapeno popper and Denver omelet. You can make any variety with different vegetables, meats, and seasonings.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Subwhales

Even if you haven't seen the movie, these Subwhales are an epicly cute way to make a sub sandwich!

During my husband's third deployment, I tried to make the time pass more quickly for my kids with a lot of activities. Our favorite thing to do was go to the movies and we had a blast seeing Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, as the first one was one of our favorites to watch at home. The food creatures aka the foodimals were truly hilarious and even now that the kids are much older (how has it already been 5 years?!), we still adore the movie. We have made these Subwhales a number of times because they are an easy sub sandwich with some fun whale elements to them.

Even if you have a child who isn't familiar with the foodimals in the movie, this is such an adorable way to make a sub sandwich! I included a picture of the movie subwhales so you can see what we were going for!

via Google images

Crockpot Cajun Ham and 15 Bean Soup

This ham and bean soup is packed with a punch of Cajun seasoning. Just set it and forget it in your crockpot.

I had never heard of the 15 bean mix bags before and didn't realize there were multiple versions of it, so I had accidentally picked up the Cajun version. I honestly can't be too bummed because this Cajun version was phenomenal. It's a fairly simple recipe to throw together and into the crockpot. Set it and forget it. I can't wait to try more of these 15 bean mixes - especially in soup recipes.

Chrissy's Pot Pie Soup

This ridiculously fantastic soup is creamy and rich with pie crust dippers that can fool you into thinking you have a pot pie in front of you.

One of the few foods I do not care for is pot pie. I'm not sure if it's because I grew up having the mini pre-prepared pot pies or just my dislike of pie crust, but either way...pot pie is not my favorite. So why on earth am I sharing a recipe that's so close to pot pie? Because I LOVE this soup so much. I have taken to trying to find compromises for foods my family loves and I don't like because it's not fair to them to not get to eat something because *I* don't like it. Sometimes this results in me finding a recipe I actually really like and can make me into a believer - this is why I now like Chicken Parm and Philly Cheesesteaks.

I looked through the Cravings cookbook and saw the picture for this soup and although I've made a pot pie soup before, I figured this one seemed more authentic to pot pie and it also had pieces of crust that the others would love (and I could omit in my own bowl, if I wanted). This is definitely a more time-consuming soup recipe, but with the end result, every second spent on this soup was so worth it. The soup was creamy but not too thick. I loved having chicken AND ham. The veggies were reminiscent of pot pie and you also get little bursts of flavor from the pearl onions. What I was surprised with is that I actually really loved the pie crust pieces. They were salty and crunchy and DEFINITELY will always be welcome in my bowl. Nick and the big kids agreed that this was a worthy substitute for actual pot pie and was very very delicious. Most definitely a keeper!

Roasted Cheesy Potato and Ham Soup

This unbelievable soup is full of roasted veggies, plus tons of cheese, all served in an pretzel bowl!

I knew when I saw the picture of this cheesy potato and ham soup that I was going to love the recipe. I knew it was going to be mind-blowing. I was a little nervous to make it because it looked so fancy and even though I'm pretty competent at cooking, I didn't want to mess this one up. Low and behold, this is actually a easy recipe to make (including the pretzel bowls) and it actually isn't that time-consuming. Yes, you do have to time it to make the pretzel bowls in time for the soup to be finished, but you don't have to babysit the pretzel bowls while the dough rises, etc. I personally think the pretzel bowls are a must with this soup. It's literally the most perfect dinner ever. The pretzel bowls are addictive and the soup is creamy and cheesy and all the roasted goodness makes the soup superb!

Ham & White Cheddar Beer Cheese Soup

The perfect fall soup with ham, bacon, beer, and loads of cheese!

I am not stranger to beer cheese soup and it's one of my favorite soups to make in the fall. I'm in love with this one in particular because it has two proteins - ham and bacon. Plus green onion and loads of cheese! The combination is just total comfort food. It's a bonus that it is one pot and can be made in under 30 minutes.

One Pot Ham & Pasta Skillet

A perfectly simple spring dish that can be enjoyed all year round - and in a flash, ready in under 30 minutes.

Hello, spring! Hello, seasonal allergies! LOL

I am back with a simple, wonderful one pot skillet dish. This one features some very spring ingredients. I dig any type of recipe that is made in one pot or skillet or pan and especially if that one dish recipe is made in under 30 minutes with very little prep. This recipe you only have to chop the onions and that's the only prep there is. Every other ingredient is already prepped and you just have to measure and dump it in. So that's a winner winner ham dinner in my book.

Alfredo Scalloped Potatoes with Ham #SundaySupper

These Alfredo Scalloped Potatoes take scalloped potatoes to a whole new level - they are perfect for an Easter side or a spring main dish!

Hello, friends! It has been such a long time since I have participated in a Sunday Supper event (since November - wow!!), but I am back for today's EASY SPRING DISHES event. It is hosted by Anne of Simple and Savory. Spring makes me think of not only lemon and asparagus, but HAM. Maybe that's because of Easter, but oh my goodness, give me all the ham, please!!

This recipe is something I never would have tried years ago because I didn't like alfredo. Now that I love alfredo, I thought it sounded like the perfect thing to put into scalloped potatoes to make them rich and creamy. I was on point with that assessment. This would be a great side dish for Easter, but is also a wonderful main dish recipe because if you do have a bigger portion, it is filling. I love that it also has a veggie in it! The scalloped potatoes I grew up on had no veggies and little beef meatballs, so this is quite different from that.

The original recipe called for Swiss cheese - I am sure if you love Swiss, it would be great in this. However, no one in my little family likes it, so I subbed in mozzarella and gruyere.

Ham & Potato Corn Chowder

This chowder is ready in under 30 minutes, but is perfectly hearty to fill your belly!

Hello and happy Friday the 13th. OoOoOoO!! I know I am happy because I'm going to be binge watching Netflix's Series of Unfortunate Events today :) Anyone else excited for that? I loved the movie and read the books and loved them, so I'm really excited for Netflix to have gotten their hands on the rights to produce a tv show. It already looks wonderfully dreadful and perfect! Anyways....

I have seriously been digging all soups with potato and corn lately. I don't know why really, but I just love the combination. It may be because of my old favorite dinner of ham steaks with mashed potatoes. Although I would usually fix peas with it, I do still love ham and potatoes together.

This soup is similar to a few others I have posted, but is just different enough for me to be absolutely positive that it needed to be posted!

Ham and Vegetable Barley Soup

This soup is so lovely and it reminds me so much of minestrone!

I saved this soup when I was assigned Wendy's blog for Secret Recipe Club. She actually had plenty of soups that I wanted to try and have and you will see them soon (hopefully). I picked this recipe because I don't eat as much ham as much as I'd like just because of lack of recipes saved. I also had never had barley and always wanted to try it. This soup was fantastic and really reminded me of minestrone with the tomatoes, zucchini, and oregano. It was a delicious dinner and we will most definitely make it often for our weekly soup nights!

Waffles & Eggs with Creamy Sage Sauce #SecretRecipeClub

It's time again for Secret Recipe Club reveal day for my group, Group D! What is Secret Recipe Club? It's a bunch of food bloggers separated into four groups that post once a month on a designated Monday. Each month, we are paired with another foodie from our group secretly (hence the name). We then pick a recipe (or two or more) from that blog and make it. On our reveal day, we reveal whose blog we had and what recipe(s) we chose all at the same time. It's like a Secret Santa every month, but with food and blogs! It's a great deal of fun :)

Today, I am sharing a recipe from one of my "newer" members, Wendy. Wendy and her husband, Frank, are retired cops that moved from the big city to a farm with 12 acres of land. They raise lots of animals and participate in their local Community Sponsored Agriculture program. Wendy is a great storyteller and posts a variety of topics on her blog, not exclusive to some wonderful recipes. I love reading her posts and love having her in Group D! You can find out more about her and her family: here.

I had several recipes pinned from her blog within a matter of minutes, like this Corned Beef & Cabbage Soup, Pumpkin Praline Pancakes because pumpkin, this Milky Way Bundt Cake that looks crazy good, if I could find good rhubarb this Rhubarb Berry Coffee Cake would have been my SRC pick, and Ham Vegetable Barley Soup since I've never had barley before. I was proud of myself for finding more meal recipes rather than dessert ones and will definitely be making each and every one of these recipes from Wendy's blog at some point.

In the end, I couldn't stop thinking about Wendy's Waffles Benedict with Creamy Sage Sauce. I have never poached eggs and I rarely eat eggs with runny yolks unless I'm really craving them, so I modified the recipe and made a fried egg. I recently cleaned out my spices and tossed those that were past their "best by" date - p.s. it's a good idea to look at your dates on your spices because they lose their oomph after a while. I ended up not having ground mustard OR rubbed sage in my pantry. Thankfully, I had a pack of fresh poultry herbs that contained sage that was still in decent shape. I was going to put 1/4 a teaspoon of ground mustard with a teaspoon or so of honey in place of the honey mustard in the original recipe. I still used honey, but also did a squirt of just plain yellow mustard. My last modification was to use some ham steak that I had in my fridge instead of deli sliced ham. :)

All-in-all, this recipe turned out SO WELL! The waffles were amazing - cheese, ham, and sage in them...YES!!! I also could not get enough of that creamy sage sauce. It was hard for me to not grab the ladle and sip the sauce right out of it. I had a little leftover and I think I may fry up an egg and toast a piece of bread and serve the sauce over the top of it. My mom used to make creamed eggs and the creamy sage sauce really reminded me of that. Thank you, Wendy, for sharing such an incredible recipe!!

Sally's Hawaiian Pizza

It's hard for me to decide on favorites of anything. Favorite book...favorite candy...favorite animal...and pizza is definitely included. I love supreme pizza and meat lovers' and pepperoni and cheese and vegetable and HAWAIIAN. I love Hawaiian pizza. This recipe stays pretty true to the classic with just the addition of bacon to the ham/Canadian bacon. Plus I made mine with a stuffed crust because regardless of toppings, stuffed crust is my favorite crust! 

[Sally's pizza did not have the stuffed crust]

Ham & Cheese Gnocchi

Looking back on these pictures from when we first moved down to Tennessee last summer and were staying at my mom-in-law's makes me want some Fiestaware like no other!! This turquoise color is my very favorite of all the colors she has...it's also Nick's favorite color and we often duke it out to get the turquoise plate or bowl when we go over for Sunday dinners.

I love the contrast of the turquoise with this gnocchi dish - it's so pretty! And it's creamy and cheesy and rich to boot! The gnocchi, not the Fiestaware :) Amanda suggested several cheeses and we chose gruyere. I would love to try it with good ol' cheddar though. Ham and cheddar is such a classic combination and I think it would cut on the overall richness that the Gruyere added to the dish. Not that it wasn't a nice quality, but definitely something that you only want to enjoy every once in a while.

Chipotle BBQ Hawaiian Pizza

We have been in our house for about 6 months now, so it's strange to me to just be catching up on posting recipes that I made when Nick first got here to Tennessee. The kids and I (just Matt & Cami at the time) had moved down last July and Nick moved down in September. This pizza recipe was one I made the very night Nick arrived to Tennessee. Since I was pregnant with Mason, I was having weird cravings - namely, spicy foods. So this pizza was a must.

You get heat from the chipotles - a nice smoky heat. I used Sweet Baby Ray's Sweet & Spicy bbq sauce. The jalapenos last summer were just extra spicy - which was awesome! And, of course, Frank's Red Hot Sauce is always a nice touch of heat. The cheese and pineapple did help not to make the heat overpowering, but it was still a really great slice of spiciness :) It was exactly what I was craving!

Spinach, Ham, & Hashbrown Quiche

I don't make quiches often enough which is really quite a bummer. I actually really love savory breakfast meals. But I don't often wake up at a decent enough time to spend 2 hours getting breakfast ready. Granted this recipe only takes about an hour to cook total, it feels like way longer. And I am by no means a morning person. A lot of times I prefer to make savory recipes like this when we have brinner. Although I always wish I actually made it for breakfast. Anyways...enough babble about how awful I am at making savory breakfast recipes early in the morning...

This quiche is a very simple one to make. Not a lot of hassle to it. Plus it has spinach in it! YUM! I could see some very fun variations to the base recipe in the future. I also may make it in my cast iron skillet at some point and modify the recipe to brown the crust over the stove and bake it the rest of the way...similar to this quiche.