Pork

An 18 lb Ham

April 15, 2011

Last year I posted several times about my 18 lb hams. Every time I mentioned them several of you would comment or email about how big an 18 lb ham must be. The other day I was looking through my food pictures and found a few pictures of one of my 18 lb hams. I [...]

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Pork Fried Rice

April 4, 2011

Fried rice is the perfect quick and easy meal. And not only is it quick and easy, it is an inexpensive meal to make because it contains basic ingredients that almost everyone keeps in their kitchen. It is also a healthy meal and can be made even healthier by using more vegetables and brown rice [...]

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Bacon Wrapped Meatloaf

March 29, 2011

Bacon makes everything better, right? Well, okay not everything, but many things can be taken to a new level with a little bacon added. I recently discovered that meatloaf is one of those things. I grew up eating a lot of meatloaf and I make my family meatloaf often. I even have a great basic [...]

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Spicy Pasta and Sausage

March 15, 2011

We love pasta in our house. It is usually an inexpensive, quick, and easy meal to make that everyone enjoys. This spicy pasta and sausage is a dish that I came up with recently when I wanted to make something that was a little different than the normal pasta I usually make. We all loved [...]

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Bacon Spaghetti

March 9, 2011

My kids declared this bacon spaghetti one of the best meals that I have made and I have to agree, this spaghetti was really good. But, how could it be bad when it contains a pound of bacon? Anything with a pound of bacon in it has to be good, doesn’t it?! As soon as [...]

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Quick and Easy Mexican Pork Chops

March 3, 2011

I recently posted on my Facebook page that I do not have many pork chop recipes on my site because they do to photograph well. The above picture proves that, as does the hundred or so other pictures of pork chops that I have taken in the past. We raise hogs, so I have many [...]

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Slow Cooked Bean With Bacon Soup

February 21, 2011

My dad loves bean with bacon soup. It is one of his favorite comfort foods when he is sick. My mom always tries to keep a few cans of bean with bacon soup on hand just for my dad. Bean with bacon soup is actually one of the few canned soups that I remember eating [...]

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Slow Cooked Orange Pork Roast

February 17, 2011

I cook a lot of pork roast, which tends to happen when you raise hogs. This recipe has become one of my favorite ways to cook pork roast. It is moist, tender, and full of flavor. This recipe for pork roast uses the crock pot, which I love this because the crockpot does all the [...]

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Bacon Quesadillas

January 7, 2011

We love quesadillas and eat them often for lunch and dinner. They take very little time to put together and I almost always have the ingredients in the fridge to make them. Our current favorite way to make quesadillas is with bacon and cheddar cheese The bacon in quesadillas is a favorite in our house. [...]