Ham Recipes
Stromboli Bombs or Mini Calzones
All the great taste of a traditional stromboli in a fun-to-make, single-serve pocket – with a clever shortcut! Customize the fillings to taste and enjoy as a crowd-pleasing appetizer or an easy meal. Just add a salad or vegetable of choice! Sisters Grace and Evie are back for the latest installment of Fountain Avenue Kids, with a…
Spanish Tapas Board
Elevate your charcuterie game with this epic Spanish tapas board, which comes together easily, looks stunning, and is loaded with savory bites. Perfect for any occasion, from New Year’s celebrations and game days to girls’ nights and book clubs. Optional extras will make it a meal. Charcuterie boards are popular for good reason. They…
Easy Italian Stromboli
Modeled after a favorite at a local pizza shop, this flavor-packed stromboli is easy to assemble and may be prepped in batches and frozen for later use. Perfect for game day, casual entertaining, and easy weeknight meals. Gluten-free adaptation included. After baking strombolis recently with my nieces, Evie declared them a 10½ out of 10! Grace…
Herbed Green Eggs and Frizzled Ham
Naturally colored with fresh spinach and herbs, Green Eggs & Frizzled Ham reinvent the storied recipe with exceptional flavor and wholesome appeal. Welcome to Fountain Avenue Kids, where kids of all ages and backgrounds take center stage in cooking videos, making recipes that they are truly excited about – and adults will be excited about too! My mission is…
Scrambled Egg Muffins
Basic ingredients come together in minutes for these filling egg muffins that can be customized to taste. Economical, healthy, and delicious! Four fabulous siblings joined me in the kitchen for this latest installment of Fountain Avenue Kids. But this story involves so much more than their family favorite recipe, and I hope you will…
Split Pea Soup with Ham
Wholesome, economical pantry ingredients combine with refrigerator staples in this hearty, comforting, slow cooked soup. Makes a big batch and freezes well too. It’s funny how tastes change. When I was little, the color and name alone were unappealing. Now, I consider split pea soup to be a soul-warming comfort food and one of…
Omelet Roll
Perfect for holidays, special brunches and breakfast for dinner, this festive roll offers a fuss-free alternative to making omelets for a crowd. For added convenience, the egg mixture can be prepared well in advance. Perfect for holidays, special brunches and breakfast for dinner, this protein-rich meal is like making an omelet for a crowd. The rolled nature…
Denver Mug Omelet
This super-speedy, protein-rich meal can be customized to taste and enjoyed any time of day! A few days before my older son John was heading off to college and we were checking off the remaining items on his packing list, my laptop started acting finicky. He still needed a new pair of sneakers…
Ham & Cheese Crustless Quiche
Enjoy this crustless quiche as a satisfying dinner or make it ahead and reheat for breakfast or lunch throughout the week. And did you know? Eggs have no sugar or carbs and are one of nature’s best sources of complete, digestible protein! What’s not to love about an egg? One of these little orbs has…
“The Shifter”… plus a showdown and a slice of history
On the heels of Lititz winning the coveted title of America’s Coolest Small Town in an online contest conducted by Budget Travel in 2013, Columbia was designated as one of the 20 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2014 by Smithsonian magazine. I have long considered Lancaster County to be a pretty great place to…
Cuban Black Bean Soup
For years I, like many cooks, rarely measured ingredients. We eat a lot of hearty soups, salads, and one-pot meals in our house, and this sort of cooking lends itself well to the “a-little-of-this-a-little-of-that” approach. When I began sharing recipes through The Fountain Avenue Kitchen, however, I knew that I had to be precise. When…
White Bean Soup with Kale and Cheese Toast (Slow Cooker)
This is one of those meals I have been cooking for years and I look forward to a warm bowl of it when the nights are cold. The aroma wafting from the kitchen takes me right back to my grandmother’s kitchen. It’s the ham hock. The good smell it produces is matched only by the…
