FLASHBACK easter 2012

"here comes peter cottontail..."
bk and i have a quiet easter sunday, just the two of us. we really want a spiral sliced ham, but they don't make them small enough for two. we have a TON left over. what to do? what to do? i jump on pinterest looking for a new recipe. SUCCESS!!! it was amazingly delicious, though not low calorie! and so easy. you really can't screw it up! have i mentioned i love pinterest?

ingredients:

2 cups potatoes, cubed
2 cups cooked ham, cubed
1 (15.25 oz) can whole kernal corn, drained
1/4 cup minced parsley (optional)
1/4 cup butter
1 tbsp chopped onion
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 3/4 cups milk
1/8 tsp ground black pepper
4 oz shredded cheese of your choosing

preheat oven to 350 degrees F 
bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. add potatoes and cook until tender but still firm, about 15 minutes. drain and cool.
combine potatoes, ham, corn and parsley; set aside. in a saucepan saute onion in butter for 2 minutes, stir in flour until blended well. gradually add milk and pepper. bring to a boil. cook and stir for 2 minutes. remove from heat and pour over the ham mixture. stir to mix well.
pour into greased 11x7 baking dish. cover and bake for 25 minutes. uncover, sprinkle with cheese and bake 5 to 10 minutes longer until cheese melts.

5 servings

FLASH FORWARD today
so...it's october and pumpkins are in the air. well...bk and i need to have pumpkin on our taste buds. pumpkin ice cream. pumpkin coffee. pumpkin. pumpkin. pumpkin. so i jump on pinterest looking for a recipe. have a mentioned i love pinterest?
this time was different...a disaster of monumental proportions!!! okay. not quite a disaster...it was, in fact, edible. but bleck!!! all we tasted was angel food cake, no pumpkin, no cream cheese

ingredients:

1 box angel food cake mix- the 1 step kind
1 15oz can Pumpkin
3/4 Cup water
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 8oz pkg. reduced fat cream cheese
-few tablespoons of water, to be mixed with cream cheese

mix angel food cake, pumpkin, cinnamon, and water in mixing bowl. blend cheese with a few tbsps water until smooth. in a 9x13 pyrex dish- sprayed with pam-  add half of the cake –pumpkin mix. then smooth it out with a rubber spatula. drizzle half of the cream cheese over the top of it and take a small spatula to smooth it over the top. add remaining cake-pumpkin mix & also the remaining cream cheese just making layers. finally take a butter knife- stick it into the mix and go back & forth over the top of the cake making figure “8’s” - to blend it a bit. bake for 35 minutes at 375 degrees.

my plan to make it better? replace angel food cake with spice cake mix...us a 30 oz can pumpkin...add 1/2 tsp nutmeg...double the cream cheese mixture. basically, my *easy spiced pumpkin cookie* recipe with cream cheese...can't go wrong...can it? 

           

*need the easy spiced pumpkin cookie recipe...you will find it on the "bird food" page*