Category: Recipes

Anyone else have those leftover meats in your freezer that you must use, but are always at a loss of what to do?  We’ve had that quite a bit lately and specifically ham!  We had left over ham from Christmas and then added another container of left over ham from Easter.

While we love ham (just eating it plain), we had done that a couple times and were looking to reuse it another way!  T was actually the one who suggested chopping it up and putting it in my twice baked potatoes.  Then for ease, I added a few other items and the seasoning to make them into ultimate mashed potatoes.  We’ll get to these potatoes in a minute, but first let’s talk about weekends for a second.

Weekends are a funny thing, aren’t they??  You spend the majority of the week waiting anxiously for them and then once they are over, you are either glad to get back to a routine or realize it went so fast, you can’t really remember what you did!

This past weekend was a rare one where we didn’t have 15 things that we “had” to do. Oh don’t worry our list of “to do’s” was plenty long as we hadn’t had much time the last several weeks to focus on home, but only one place to go and one thing we had to do which was a baseball game for M on Saturday night.  Knowing it was going to be cold and windy, I decided we were going to need a hearty meal to fill our bellies and help keep us warm during the game, so that led us to where we are now.

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If you’ve followed along with my adventures of being a step-mom at all or follow me on social media, you probably know that one of M’s favorite foods (dishes) is my chip casserole. I’ve had many people tell me since I started blogging that I needed to share the recipe, but I just never have. Why? I’m not sure! It’s not a fancy recipe, not gourmet, full of preservative filled Velveeta, but such a good comfort food and since it’s a favorite in our house, I decided it was time!

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