Recipe for Ham pot pie

I did not get a picture of this, but I will try to get pictures of the others.

First let me say that I am a self-taught southern cook. We live in the deep south and I have spent years teaching myself to cook. Trial and error.

Ham pot pie is essentially chicken pot pie just change the meat and the cream style soup flavor and you can any kind of pot pie. We also do turkey, beef and sometimes just veggie.

This is how we are using up our leftover holiday ham.

1 cup cubed ham (cooked)
1 can cream of celery soup
1 can or cup of mixed veggies (frozen makes it a little more soupy) precook fresh
dash salt and pepper
1 refrigerated pie crust

Mix ham, soup and veggies in bowl. Add salt and pepper. Put in deep dish pie plate or round casserole. Cover top with pie crust, cut two slits for steam. Cook 350 until crust is golden brown.

That's it. You could use two crusts one for top and bottom, however that makes it more expensive.

Here is my first ever Menu Plan Monday..

We plan evening meals but not breakfast or lunch - they just happen. I find that it helps to plan out the evening meal because if I wait till 4 in the afternoon to think about it, I will just give in and order pizza or just serve cereal. This gives me direction for the day.

Monday
Ham pot pie with salad and Pistachio pudding

Tuesday
Stuffed Cabbage in the crock pot, cupcakes

Wednesday
New Years Eve Breakfast for dinner

Thursday
Oven fried pork chops, black eye peas, cabbage, cornbread and carrot cake

Friday
Little league beef stew, cornbread and carrot cake

I will be adding the recipes as we go along in the week.

Thanks for visiting.

Click here to visit Organizing Junkie for her Menu plan Monday post.

Christmas Wrap up

We had a great Christmas this year. I had been under the weather but managed to rally myself to enjoy the season.. nothing like a pre-Christmas visit to the ENT.

We managed to have only four family gatherings to attend this year. By the time Saturday rolled around we were tired of the traditional holiday meal. So, when we had our holiday celebration dinner Saturday night with close friends we ordered pizza.

We enjoyed so much about this year. I would say that it might be one of our best. It was nice to catch up with old friends and family that we hadn't seen in awhile. DH was home for 5 whole days and that was awesome.

To round out the weekend, we went to the local drive in

to see Marley and Me. I will warn you right now that soft hearted people and small kids will be terribly upset at the end. We were caught off guard and floored. Everything we had read said it was a "family movie" great for the holidays.... let's just say that I was glad we did not see it on Christmas day, because we needed several tissues and a frank discussion about what happens when an animal is too sick to be saved. Even though, DD said that she still liked it and wanted to own it when it comes out.

Images : http://hubpages.com/hub/vintage-Christmas-images

Merry Christmas

"For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:11