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Hats Roses & A Honey-Roasted Ham Biscuits Recipe #HormelFamily

May 22, 2012 By 11 Comments

Looks like the Kentucky Derby was May 5th but that’s no reason not to continue with the southern goodness of baking and eating Kentucky Derby themed food, but before we get to the great recipe today I thought I would share with you a few hats found on pinterest perfect for the Kentucky Derby.

 

Source: rufflemint.com via Jenny on Pinterest

 

 

· The Derby is frequently referred to as "The Run for the Roses" because a garland of red roses is awarded to the Kentucky Derby winner each year. The horse’s garland is made up of 554 roses, but you’ll only need a few to set the pace. Show off a dozen long-stemmed beauties in a treasured vase, or cut your roses short, in the French style, to keep a low profile among your food presentation. Carry out the theme with red napkins, candles, or paper party ware.

Hats with roses

 

Source: blog.zap2it.com via Lena on Pinterest

Source: flickr.com via Dana on Pinterest


 

Honey Roasted HamHoney-Roasted Ham Biscuits

Ingredients:

  1. 1 (10-ounce) can refrigerated buttermilk biscuit dough
  2. 2 cups Hormel® Cure 81® diced ham
  3. 1/2 cup honey mustard
  4. 1/4 cup finely chopped honey-roasted peanuts, divided

Directions:

  1. Heat oven to 400°F.
  2. Separate biscuits. Place in muffin pans, pressing gently into bottom and up sides of pan.
  3. In bowl, combine ham, mustard and 2 tablespoons peanuts; mix well. Spoon ham mixture evenly into biscuit cups. Sprinkle with remaining 2 tablespoons peanuts.
  4. Bake biscuits 15 to 17 minutes or until golden brown

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Fun Hormel Ham Southern Kentucky Derby Ham Cups Recipe #HormelFamily

May 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

We’re still sharing recipes from Hormel this week with the Kentucky Derby theme and as I said I’m not Kentucky Derby expert. My knowledge extends to knowing that horses are involved and I think it’s a race. Am I right? Well Hormel has more to say about the Kentucky Derby and it starts with fun……

Kentucky Derby Cups

The Derby isn’t just about horse racing and southern comfort food. It’s also about sporting classy, fashionable styles in headwear. Encourage your guests, young and old, male and female, to don hats, just like the spectators live at Louisville’s Churchill Downs racetrack. Fancy or homemade, the bigger and funnier the better!

Then it gest better with this recipe:

Hormel Ham Southern Kentucky Derby Ham Cups Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 8 slices dark rye bread, crusts removed
  • 2 cups Hormel® Cure 81® Sliced Ham, cut into cubes
  • 8 large eggs, beaten
  • 2 cups CHI-CHI’S® Thick & Chunky Salsa Mild

Directions

1 Heat oven to 400ºF. Coat 8 muffin cups with cooking spray.

2 Line each muffin cup with 1 slice bread.

3 In bowl, stir together ham and eggs. Pour 1/4 cup ham mixture into each bread cup. Loosely tent muffin cups with aluminum foil.

4 Bake ham cups 20 minutes or until eggs are set. Top each with heaping spoonful salsa.

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Pepperoni Macaroni & Cheese Recipe #HormelFamily

May 19, 2012 By 7 Comments

How do you spice up something you eat regularly? Just add Hormel’s pepperoni to any normal dish. I’ve used it in salad, tomato soup, and recently we used it in macaroni & cheese.

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chop up the pepperoni into little pieces and add it to your favorite version of macaroni & cheese.

 

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Pepperoni Macaroni & Cheese Recipe

Ingredients

 

  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 8 ounces macaroni
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1/4 cup flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups milk
  • 2 cups cheddar cheese
  • 10 pieces of Hormel’s Pepperoni

Directions

 

  1. Boil the Macaroni 8 minutes set aside and drain
  2. Melt the butter in a sauce pan and add the flour and salt
  3. Cook on medium heat for 2 minutes stirring constantly
  4. Add the milk and stir. Cook until thickens stirring constantly over medium heat
  5. Once thick add the cheese and take off the heat.
  6. Return the pasta to the cheese mixture and then add the beef mixture and serve.
  7. Stir in the chopped up pepperoni

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Celebrate Earth Day With Earth Saving Tips from Hormel #HormelFamily

April 21, 2012 By 21 Comments

Did you know that April 22nd marks the 42nd anniversary of the celebration of Earth Day? I had no idea it was around that long, does knowing that change your mind about how important it is? For me it means I’m going to considering doing something with my kids especially after listening to Jane Goodall talk during my interview with her for the Premier of Chimpanzee about the earth and how we aren’t doing enough to bring about change. Earth day is a great start but it’s going to take us doing these things every day to make a difference.

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This year, the Earth Day Network announced that the main focus of Earth Day will be to continue building the environmental movement and engaging new environmental activists around the globe. In order to make Earth Day a success, it is essential that each and every person set environmental goals, contribute and do their part including major companies like Hormel.

Did you know that about 80 percent of Hormel Foods’ product packaging by weight is recyclable and/or made from recycled materials? Over the past few years, Hormel has found many ways to reduce, revamp and change the size and material of their packages. In 2009, a half-inch in height was removed from each Jennie-O Turkey Store turkey burger carton, generating an annual paperboard savings of more than 68,000 pounds! More information on Hormel Foods’ package minimization efforts .

There are plenty of simple ways that you and your family can help that won’t feel like you are overhauling your lifestyle but they still make a difference. Jane Goodall says that we need to be aware of what we purchase and how it was made, just an FYI from taken away from my interview with her.

 

These tips are from Hormel:

• Plan an eco-friendly picnic! Skip paper plates and bring along utensils and dishes from home. Pack products that are known for their eco-friendly and sustainable packaging. One example is Hormel® Natural Choice® deli meats. As part of its commitment to be 100 percent natural inside and out, Hormel® Natural Choice® deli meats now has recyclable packaging made of 100 percent recycled material and they are the only national brand that features 100 percent recycled packaging.

• On your next trip to the grocery store, avoid the plastic by bringing along a cloth, reusable bag. Not only are they inexpensive, but they are a lot stronger than regular plastic bags!

• Take a shorter shower or brush your teeth without running the water. Not only will you reduce water consumption, but the energy costs associated with heating the water.

• Contribute to an online campaign through the Earth Day Network! There are also plenty of opportunities for you to volunteer on the actual day in your communities! http://www.earthday.org/take-action

• Last month, Hormel introduced a brand new eco-friendly package for Hormel™ Country Crock® sides! This new “in-mold” package design replaces the paper sleeve, placing the printed information directly on the tub, which saves more than 8,500 trees a year! Try one of the newly introduced flavors that include cheesy diced potatoes, four cheese penne pasta with broccoli,

 

 

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Wholly Guacamole! What’s Your Occasion? #HormelFamily

March 27, 2012 By 97 Comments

So most red blooded Americans love to watch sports and have parties around those games. Football, Baseball, Basketball sports sports sports….I’m not one of those people. So when someone asks me to do a party post around sports I kinda look around like, gee, am I really alone in being a family that doesn’t celebrate sports?? I can’t be. Plus football season and the Big Game are well behind us, and I feel as if game-day snacks and munchies ideas have been exhausted. Did you know that Wholly Guacamole® is a part of the Hormel Foods family? Guacamole is a great party day snack for any occasion and Wholly Guacamole® has many varieties to please anyone!

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What you won’t find is additives, preservatives, gluten or transfats. Wholly Guacamole is all natural with 20 vitamins and minerals in every portion. It’s perfect for parties, great with dinner or lunch, delicious as a snack!image

I want to challenge you guys to step outside your box and tell me what other occasions for having a get together may be.  Me, I love to cook and really don’t need a reason to have people over. We just invite friends over to have friends over. It’s a great way to get to know people better and almost everyone loves to eat. I love to have snacks out while guests arrive and Wholly Guacamole® takes all the work out of it. Just open it up and serve. That gives me more time to make dinner, like the Strawberry Pork Chops I made the other night. Also it gives me time to create dessert. And I love to get fancy with dessert.

 

So tell me your ideas! What’s your party idea, when do you get together with friends, and what do you serve?

 

This giveaway has ended. Congratulations to the winner, Jamie M.

All rules can be found under giveaway rules

 

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Strawberry Pork Chops Recipe #HormelFamily

March 27, 2012 By 20 Comments

I had to get creative the other night for dinner. I was cleaning out the freezer and I found some Hormel Pork chops and strawberries and as you can see from the photo the strawberries were a little frosted so they definitely needed to be used.

IMG_8649 I completely made up this recipe and when my husband saw me making it he made a face like, no way am I going to eat that. But guess what, he tried it and he liked it. It was great.

I used Welch’s Natural Strawberry spread

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Butter and a little bit of water

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The Hormel Smoked Pork Chops

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Strawberry Pork Chops Recipe

Ingredients:

Hormel Thick Cut Smoked Pork Chops 15 oz
2 cups frozen strawberries
3 table spoons butter
2 table spoons water
3/4 cup Welch’s Natural Strawberry Spread

Directions:

Heat the oven to 450

Mix the butter, jam and water.

Heat up for 30 seconds and stir, then heat up until the butter is melted and stir again

Place Pork chops in a oven safe cooking dish

Place the frozen strawberries on top

Pour your jam mixture over the pork

Cook in the oven until the pork temp reaches 155 degrees (about 30 minutes)

 

 

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Spice Up Your Salad With Turkey Pepperoni #HormelFamily Recipe

March 14, 2012 By 21 Comments

I was quite surprised when my husband told me that he actually liked the turkey pepperoni. Usually if something is healthy he’s not at all interested in it. I’ve used the turkey pepperoni before but not sure that he was actually home to try it. He went out to the store and bought this round of turkey bacon because he’s trying to eat healthier. His mom had a triple bypass surgery not too long ago and it reminded him that so many of his family members have died from heart attacks. So maybe he’s finally going to start trying more healthy food.

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I decided to make a healthy salad for dinner one night. I cut up zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, spinach, lettuce, carrots, bell peppers and used hummus as the salad dressing. It was amazing. We topped it off with some cheese and turkey pepperoni. Quite a healthy meal right?

Turkey Pepperoni Salad Recipe:

Ingredients:

Veggies of your choice:

zucchini
cucumbers
tomatoes
spinach
lettuce
carrots
bell peppers
hummus
garlic
cheese chunks
turkey pepperoni strips

Directions:

wash and cut all your veggies
toss together
mix some garlic with your hummus
top your salad with small amount of hummus, cheese and turkey pepperoni

Serve!

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Hormel Flatscreen HDTV Facebook Giveaway Ends 3/19 #HormelFamily

March 13, 2012 By 3 Comments

HURRY hurry hurry. The contest has less than one week left. On March 19th your chances to win a Flatscreen HDTV end. You can win this TV just in time to watch all the basketball excitement with the “Hoops Hysteria” Sweepstakes sponsored by Hormel Foods.

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TO ENTER:

This promotion is on the Hormel Foods Recipes Facebook page. To Enter you’ll have to fill out the entry form on the Facebook page.

 

 

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A Curry Chicken Frittata Recipe #HormelFamily

February 22, 2012 By 6 Comments

I bought a Costco size package of red potatoes and I wanted to cook something else with them before they went bad. I’m not exactly sure when a potato has gone bad, I think someone once told me that once they start growing then they are bad but if that’s the case then how do you know when a potato is ok for you. That question is for another day I suppose because my potatoes were still good. I used my can of Hormel Chicken and potatoes and eggs and created a Curry Chicken Frittata.

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I opened up the can of Hormel Chicken, drained it and rinsed it. Put butter in a skillet and used a teaspoon of salt and 2 Tablespoons of curry and 6 peeled and chopped red potatoes.

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Cooked for about 10 minutes, then added 1/2 cup water and let simmer for 15 more minutes. Next I cracked 6 eggs and stirred with a fork, then added 1/2 cup of cheese and poured into the pan. Cooked for about 5 minutes, letting the eggs get solid. Now I was worried about the eggs getting over cooked on the bottom so I stirred it a bit to make sure the liquid on the top would cook.

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Curry Chicken Frittata Recipe:

Ingredients:

2 Tablespoons butter or margarine
1 10 OZ can of Hormel Premium Chunk Chicken (drained and rinsed)
6 red potatoes peeled and chopped
1 teaspoon salt
2 Tablespoons Curry
1/2 cup water
6 eggs
1/2 cup cheese

Directions:

  1. Cook the chicken, and potatoes in the butter for about five minutes.
  2. Add the salt and curry and cook for about five more minutes.
  3. Then add water and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes, making sure the potatoes are cooked all the way
  4. Crack the eggs in a separate bowl, scramble them with a fork and add 1/2 cup of cheese
  5. Pour over the chicken and potatoes and cook the eggs until they are done, be careful not to over cook them.

 

 

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Heart Healthy Eating Substitutions Potato Soup Recipe #HormelFamily

February 14, 2012 By 20 Comments

It’s not only Valentine’s Day today but February is also heart month. We’re thinking up ways to eat heart healthy and Hormel has a few tips for us to share and I’ve even created a healthier soup recipe from what I’ve done in the past. I changed this Potato Soup recipe into this:

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Heart Healthy Potato Soup Recipe:

1 1/2 cups already cooked brown rice
6 red potatoes cut
2 cups baby carrots
1 package Hormel low sodium chicken bouillon
6 cups water
2 teaspoons white pepper
1 cup cheddar cheese

Directions:

Put all ingredients in the crock pot except cheese on medium heat for 10 hours (or high for 2 and low for 5). When ready to serve add the cheese and stir the soup until the cheese is well blended. The rice will help thicken the soup.  

Other Heart Healthy Recommendations:

Substitute high-fat foods for lower-fat counterparts. Use liquid oils when cooking like olive and canola oil instead of solid fats like butter and margarine.

Reduce fat and keep an eye on salt consumption by trying out a variety of spices and seasonings. Bouillons are a great way to add seasonings without adding fat. Try beef flavored Herb-Ox® bouillon sodium-free granules that are perfect to add a unique flavor to gravies, marinades, soups, stews, rice dishes, pasta dishes and stir-fries.

Most fruits and vegetables are low in calories and high in fiber, which is great for your heart. Grabbing a handful of vegetables is a quick, perfect, heart-healthy snack during the day. Use the leftovers to throw into a pasta dish later in the evening. If you’re on the go, try the small, compact, and delicious CHI-CHI’S® Snackers® with carrots or celery.

Consume at least 4 servings of nuts, legumes, and seeds each week and avoid more than 36 ounces of sugar-sweetened beverages each week.

Lean proteins help to provide you with a sense of fullness and keep hunger at bay in between meals. Try a Hormel® Always Tender® pork roast for dinner, packed with 18g of protein, in either a roast flavor or onion and garlic roast.

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