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Seriously Good Ham Delights

January 31, 2018 by Lindsay 6 Comments

One of the best game day appetizers, ham and swiss cheese sliders! These easy ham delights are made on Hawaiian rolls for a sweet + savory combo that is to die for. These are delicious with deli ham, but leftover glazed holiday ham makes them even more special! I make them ahead of time and stick them in the oven right before serving.

side view of ham delights on a silver tray.

You know these little love nuggets, right? If you live in the south, I'm thinking yes, but I don't know where else these are a STAPLE for parties, tailgating, and sportsball watching in general.

(I feel that it's important to state that I do in fact know that this weekend is the Super Bowl. And here's the next recipe you should ABSOLUTELY make for it.)

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Salmon Lettuce Wraps

June 19, 2017 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

I made you cake! Savory, salty, crispy seafood cake topped with a tartar sauce that is just.so.good. At restaurants I'm always tempted to order crab cakes but rarely do, and here's why: if I get even the slightest crunch that indicates shell, I don't want to eat anything else at all and become hungry and annoyed and sad. So this solves that. With salmon!

You could totally make these into burgers btw.

But! This totally feels like summer to me, and has two important characteristics that are important to us at the moment. First, they're relatively low carb. There are some breadcrumbs in the cakes, but not many, and we went with lettuce wraps for health and flavor. AND, we used canned salmon here for frugality. I'm actually a big fan of canned fishes; they taste great, are inexpensive, and are great for recipes like this where the fish gets so cooked that a super fresh piece would almost be wasted.

We had these for lunch on a Saturday recently, and it was such a great mid-day meal. But now I'm thinking..brunch. With a runny egg on top? Can eggs go with seafood? Seafood can go with a bloody mary, that's for dang sure.

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Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken

May 11, 2017 by Lindsay 1 Comment

This slow cooker bbq chicken is so easy and delicious! It's one of our favorite recipes for easy weeknight meal prep and can be used with chicken thighs or chicken breasts - use whatever you have! This can be made with the easy homemade barbecue sauce recipe below or your favorite storebought barbecue sauce!

Because summer!

I've probably mentioned here before that Jay's favorite sauce is barbecue. A cross between tang and sweet, but he'll use the dark red bottled stuff in a pinch. I think that stuff is gross (always too sweet, never spicy), but I do like making my own easy homemade bbq sauce, especially in the summer.

This recipe is nothing earth-shattering, but dumping a bunch of stuff in a slow cooker and letting a sauce form while chicken cooks is a killer trick to have at the end of the school year when you're so.close. to the finish line and it's getting warm and no one has any motivation but also you still need to eat dinner, you know?

Weeknight dinner ideas, I'm here for all of them.

So here goes. Stuff gets dumped in with chicken, you go finish a project that your kid forgot about until just this instant, then you eat a BBQ chicken sandwich because you've earned it. Add a beer or 4 and call it a night.

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Slow Cooker Pulled Pork Cuban Sandwiches

October 4, 2016 by Lindsay 1 Comment

I mean, do you need to know more?

This is another recipe that involves slow cooked meat + onions, but don't be fooled - this is tons different than the pull-apart bread mess we made a few weeks ago, promise. And, if it were that similar, would it be such a bad thing?

Jay's a big fan of a Cuban sandwich, but I've never made them at home - there are a lot of components and for some reason we aren't really sandwich-making types of people. Fork food and/or salads with the occasional pizza is more of our jam, for whatever reason. Probably because I prefer to use a fork for food and not get all messy, and bread is best covered in butter soaking up the remnants of said fork food. Which makes no sense.

BUT, we went to the market, as we do, and we grabbed a piece of pork shoulder, and went on and on with ideas for it, and landed on this: local bread, local pork, ham, pickles, cheese, onions. The pork is cooked IN mustard, then everything gets toasted and wrapped in foil so that it gets ooey gooey before you bite into it. It's worth the slow cooker wait time, that's for damn sure.

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Best Ever Veggie Burgers

July 12, 2016 by Lindsay 2 Comments

IT IS FINALLY HERE.

Veggie burgers! Let me explain. In college there were these veggie burgers at our dining halls that were basically a hashbrown on a bun. I'm not a vegetarian, but once I realized that fried grains on bread were so great, I started ordering veggie burgers all the time. On campus they were all the same since Aramark provided all the food. But then I moved on in my life and realized that usually a veggie burger meant a black bean burger, and usually black beans were mushy, and THAT was not my jam.

More hashbrownburgers, please.

Fast forward 10 years, and now I'm out of college (way out) and married to a man who prefers to eat vegetarian but also eats some meat but mainly prefers to eat healthy as much as possible. Which is great, right? So now we kind of do the same thing. We try lots of veggie burgers at lots of restaurants, and far and away our favorites are ones that are chewy and grainy and kind of like rice-textured. Not mushy beans that fall apart.

So I wanted to make a veggie burger. I didn't want it to be fried and I didn't wait it to be straight carbs, and I didn't care if it was vegan. I researched a ton, and this is what I came up with! Roasted veggies AND BEANS, which dries everything out and makes it chewy. Farro for more chew. Egg and ground flaxseed for binder (like a meatball), cheese and garlic for all the flavor in the ever-loving world. Prepare to be obsessed.

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