Today I made my homemade ham and cabbage soup for dinner. This is one of my most favorite recipes I make and it is one of the first recipes that I made all on my own! I start out with a Ham bone leftover from a ham that I made (in this case yesterday). I know most people make either Split Pea Soup (yuck) or Bean Soup (double yuck) with their ham bones, but I made this recipe for those of us that do not like either and hate to let that ham bone go to waste! If you like things like Boiled Dinner or Corned Beef and Cabbage then you will most likely love this soup. You need to start out with making a simple Ham Broth, here is how:
The Broth:
Ingredients:
Left over Ham Bone
Water
Baby Carrots
Celery
Toss the left over bone with some meat still attached into your crockpot, throw in a handful of baby carrots and break up a couple of stalks of celery and toss in as well. If you just made the ham and still have the pan juices from cooking it, pour those in as well. Cover it all with water, set the crockpot on low and let cook all night. Let your crockpot do the work while you sleep. :-)
The Soup:
Ingredients:
Broth cooked from Ham Bone (see above)
Ham meat (picked from the bone)
About 2 handfuls of Baby Carrots chopped
About 4 stalks of Celery chopped
About 1/2-3/4 of a head of Cabbage sliced
When you wake up to an amazing smelling house (just ask my husband) give the broth a few stirs and go about your morning routine. When you have a moment strain out everything from the broth (I use a spoon strainer tool like thing) into a bowl so it can cool. Turn off the crockpot (with all of the broth still in it) and give it a bit of a break after working all night long. While the meat and veggies are cooling begin chopping up the baby carrots and celery. Toss these new veggies into the broth in the crockpot. By this point your meat should be cool enough to handle. Pick all of the ham that you can off of the bones and throw back into the crockpot. Throw out the bones and the old smooshy veggies. Cover the crockpot and let it cook on low for about 6-8 hours. About 45 minutes before serving stir in the cabbage. Cover and let cook until cabbage is cooked, but still crisp.
I serve this soup wit homemade bread (tonight I did Egg Bread in my bread machine).
Enjoy!!!!
Last nights dinner was amazing. I have made this before in a pan on the stove, but I was able to grill it last night and it was so much better!! I did line the grill with foil before grilling these because the sweet potatoes can be fragile and I did not want any of them breaking off and falling through the grill slats. Even my 2 year old son ate a bunch of the ham and some of the sweet potato! This 5 cup salad is also amazing and something that is requested that I make for a lot of pot lucks and BBQs every time I make it I am asked for the recipe and everyone is amazed at how simple it is! 
I have made this one a few times and it is really simple to make (took me about 15 minutes to throw together) and is really yummy! My 2 year old even ate a bunch of the ham and chicken and the parfait of course :-) It is great because it uses some planned leftovers too. So it used some chicken that I grilled last week (and froze) and some of the ham that I made earlier this week too. If you don't have these items you can always get the already cooked diced ham and chicken that is at the grocery store (but it is much cheaper to make and freeze your own). For the recipe check it out HERE. The parfait recipe sounds kinda weird, but trust me it is really yummy! Just make sure you get the sour cream and jello mix stirred up really well so you don't get a gritty taste from the jello not dissolving all of the way.
Tonights dinner was homemade fried rice and egg drop soup. And no those are not our regular dishes in the picture, they are what we call durable 'toddler ware' (from IKEA by the way, they come in 5 packs for like a $1 or something like that) I have made this recipe many times before. It is really easy to make (only took me about 15 minutes to put together after the rice is cooked) and tastes just as good as take out, and is MUCH cheaper!! You can add cooked meat to it (chicken breast, pork roast etc) but tonight we had it vegetarian. It was very yummy and all of it was eaten! Hooray for no leftovers! :-) Check out the recipe here from menus4moms.com
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