I found this on a friend's blog, so I stole it for this site! I LOVE HONEY BAKED HAM! So I'll definitely be giving this one a try...

Raise your hands if you love the crunchy bits of heaven coating that yummy ham on your christmas table?ME ME ME ME ME ME! Raise your hands if you hate that a store can charge almost $80 for a ham!! YIKES!! Well here is a recipe that will flip your lid its so good! And you do need a blow torch for it to work!

Recipe makes 8 servings
Honey Baked Hams are basted in fruit juices and then glazed with a mixture of brown sugar and honey. Here is a copy cat recipe from Family Circle Magazine. Have to say, I love Honey Baked Hams. Makes 1 7 lb. ham.
SERVES 8


Ingredients
1/2 (7 lb) spiral cut smoked ham (@ 7 lbs. fully cooked)
1/2 cup pear juice
1/2 cup orange juice
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup honey
1-2 tablespoons dijon mustard
few dashes of ground cloves
few dashes of cinnamon
Directions
1 Preheat oven to 375 ° F.
2 Place ham, cut end down, in a large baking pan.
3 Mix pear nectar and orange juice in a bowl.
4 Bake ham for 15 minutes basting frequently with juices.
5 Mix brown sugar and honey together in a small bowl.
6 Brush mixture over ham and bake for another hour or until internal temperature reads 140 °F.
7 Honey Baked Ham corporation uses a butane torch to carmelize the glaze to a crust.
8 The ham is placed on top of a huge metal drum covered with foil and carmelized

This can be done with a pre cooked spiral cut ham..... warm in over with all the sauce repeat basting, then torch it until the ham blisters and crunchy bits of heaven appear!! If you arent a Ham lover.... Honeybaked ham also has a honey baked turkey breast. And this recipe can be used on that too! Just go to the store and get a turkey breast and cook it as directed on the package..... and then continue with the carmelizing recipe!

Hot Dog Dinner

Another one of my mom's awesome recipes! I have adapted this one to our family's taste buds too.

2 cups of rice, uncooked
1 pkg hotdogs
1/2 medium onion, chopped
2-3 Tbls Butter or margarine
15oz can tomato sauce
2 Tbls Worcestershire sauce
2 Tbls Brown sugar

Get the rice started cooking however it is that you cook your rice (I do mine in the microwave). Slice the hotdogs lengthwise twice,
then cut into bite size pieces.
Saute the onions and hotdogs together in the butter.
Once the onions are cooked and the hotdog pieces are browned,
add the tomato sauce, brown sugar and worcestershire sauce. Mix well and heat until rice is done. Serve hot over cooked rice.
Sorry I don't have a picture of the finished product...we were REALLY HUNGRY!!!

Hamburger Pie

My mom has made this recipe for years. I have adapted it to fit a busy lifestyle!

What you need:
Glass casserole dish that will fit in your microwave, approx. 8X11.
1 lb ground beef, raw
1/2 medium onion, chopped (optional, but it's WAY BETTER WITH THEM!)
1 can green beans or corn, drained
1 can tomato soup
6 servings of instant mashed potatoes, prepared
1-2 cups cheddar cheese, grated (the bigger the pan you use, the more cheese you'll need)

Brown the meat in a large skillet. About 1/2 way through browning, add the onions.

Once it's all browned, pour in the soup and drained veggies. Let the soup heat up.

Put mixture in bottom of pan. I like a taller pan, and my mixture fills up 1/2 the height.

Top with prepared potatoes

and grated cheese.

Microwave on high for about 3-5 minutes. Serve hot! Goes great with any salad and rolls!

Chicken Enchiladas

OK so I have had this recipe for years this is a meal that my dad has always made since I can remember and it is one of my favorite meals. Make sure you have about an hr to devote to it, as it takes awhile to prepare but totally worth it.

1 pkg corn tortilla's
Oil for frying
Sour Cream
Cheese
Green Chili Enchilada Sauce 1 big can 1 small can
Chicken probably about 1 lb
1 Can Cream of Chicken Soup
Big Pot for mix
Baking dish

First you cut you chicken up into little pieces and then cook it. Next mix Chicken, Cream of Chicken soup and big can of Green Chili Enchilada sauce together in a pan warm all together. Next you will fry all you tortillas up if you have help then it goes faster one can fry while the other one puts everything together. After your tortilla's are ready and your mix is warmed up you will begin to put the Enchilada's together. First you lay a tortilla out a put a small spoonful of the mix onto the tortilla, next cheese and then a small spoon of Sour Cream. After you have put them all in the Tortilla you wrap it up and put it in the baking dish. You continue on until you have about 2 rows with about 8-9 or so on each side it just varies how much you have. When the bottom is full you pour half of the small can of Enchilada sauce over the top and then some cheese. Then continue on to the next layer. You will have 2 layers and once finished rolling all the tortillas pour remaining enchilada sauce and mix over the top and cheese.
Bake at 350 for about 15-20 mins or so just long enough for everything to heat through and the cheese to melt.

The sauce I use

The Mix (Chicken,Enchilada sauce,Cream of Chicken soup)

Getting ready to put it all together

What the Enchilada's look like

One layer done. Hope you enjoy they are so yummy let me know if you have any questions

Creamy Potato Soup

This one is super yummy on a cold winter night or just one ever and it is way easy to make.

1 Onion
6 Potatoes
6 Carrots
6 Celery
6 Pieces of Bacon cooked and broken up
6 TBSP Butter
6 TBSP Flour

Peel and cut of Veggies and then cooked until tender. Meanwhile cook bacon and then break up into pieces. Saute onions in the butter the add flour to mix, once veggies are done add onions/flour mix to veggies ( keep them in there water that is your base) add bacon and salt and pepper to taste. I made it a little thick last night so just add more water to thin it out as needed I also added a little bit of Garlic Powder and Oregano for flavoring since it tasted a little bland. It tasted really good with the garlic that was the first time I had added it but it turned out well.

Sauteing the Onions

After you add the Flour