Easy Peasy BBQ Chicken.

This recipe will have no pictures because it's just that easy. It also might be the shortest blog in history to ever be written. But when I found out that chicken was our theme for this week I just had to do my BBQ chicken, which I personally love and could gain 10 lbs just from over eating.

4 chicken breasts, or chicken of your choice
One bottle of BBQ sauce of choice, or home made
12 ounce can of Coca Cola
Seasonings of choice.

How I make this is I normally put all the chicken in a bowl and sprinkle some hickory seasonings on it and rub them in. You can also just do salt and pepper or whatever it is that you like on your chicken. Poor in a healthy amount of BBQ sauce and coca cola. Make sure that the chicken is covered with it and that you'll have enough left over to brush over chicken while cooking.

Now you can pan fry this, or grill it, bake it whatever. Just make sure that as you are cooking it you turn over and brush over extra liquid a few times.

And that's it! Seriously! Tasty BBQ chicken!

Mama Lanette's Guide to Doing Yo Mama Right on Mother's Day

Do you know what Mama Lanette likes to make for Mother’s Day?  Nothing!  I prefer to spend Mother’s Day having food prepared FOR me, and things done FOR me, and things brought TO me, and basically to not lift an itsy bitsy finger or move a teensy weensy toe for anything other than to get up to prepare myself a refreshing beverage.  Therefore, in honor of mothers everywhere, I am forgoing a recipe this week, and instead am providing a handy guide for you to provide to spawn, spouse, and significant other so that they can fully provide you with the maximum enjoyment, relaxation, and comfort that Mother’s Day is meant to be.   Abide by Mama Lanette’s seven step process, and your mama will soon learn to love, and not fear, the holiday known as Mother’s Day.

Mama Lanette’s Guide to Doing Yo Mama Right On Mother’s Day

Step 1:  Let Mama sleep in. Once morning starts waning and afternoon starts creeping in, go ahead and wake Mama up, but wake Mama up with her favorite coffee beverage.   STOP!  Don’t try to make it…that may sound cute, but in retrospect, cuteness is not a flavor.   Ask Daddy to drive down the road and purchase it from Starbucks/Caribou/Dunn Bros., whatever Mama’s favorite java joint is, and then bring it home and give it to her…no cutesy homemade things with subpar taste today…the key is that it should taste as good as it looks and is pleasing to Mama. 

Step 2:  Have Mama’s favorite sweatpants/yoga pants, along with equally comfortable upper body wear, laid out and ready for her to slide into upon emerging from her slumber.   Example:  Mama Lanette’s favorite home outfit consists of a tank top, hoodie, capri length yoga pants or boxer shorts, depending on the weather, and flip-flops.  Hygiene this day should consist of nothing more than a quick face washing and tooth brushing, with hair quickly being thrown up into a clip or hairband.  Have these items at the ready on the sink, along with a stick of deodorant.  I mean, really, we want low maintenance, but there is never a good excuse for B.O.  Continuing on,  Mama does not want to get dressed today.  It is hard work to look good.  She needs a day off.  Low maintenance is the key to a successful Mother’s Day.  Taking us to a brunch/dinner at some fancy pants place where we have to shower, apply makeup, straighten our hair, and squeeze into nylons and uncomfortable footwear is only going to piss us off.

Step 3:  Entertainment:  Does your mama like to watch movies?  Is she a reader?  Is she is gamer?  Is gardening her passion?  Whatever your mama likes to do in home entertainment, give her this day to partake of the hobby to her heart’s delight.   Have her favorite movies already rented from the nearest Redbox and stacked up next the DVD player.  Artfully arrange her magazines next to her comfy lounge area for the day and have her smartphone or iPod fully loaded with her Audible books of choice.  Make sure those game controllers are charged and ready to go…everything at the ready freaks, everything at the ready!   If you have to pay off one of her Ruzzle or Words with Friends pals to play unlimited and instantaneous games with her throughout the day, then do it!  It’s Mama! 

Step 4:  Gifts.   Homemade cards are precious and everlasting.  Kisses and hugs, likewise.  Mamas also like gifts that involve spas, clothing, jewelry, hair care, alcoholic beverages, evenings out with other adults, shooting range passes, etc.   Mama Lanette is fortunate enough to live in an area where there is an Aveda Institute (cheap!), so last year she took Grandma JoyJoy there, and they both got their hair did.  It was fun, and will be a repeat experience this year.   If there are daughters in the family, a mother-daughter pedicure is a lot of fun, but a pedicure is fun even if Mama goes has to go it alone (as is the case if there are only boys in the family because they usually do not want a pedicure, but some do, and if they do, well...what the heck, go for it!  I would suggest a rainbow colors, but there are 7 colors in the rainbow and 10 toes, and so you have to work that out on your own).  And really, visiting a nail spa isn’t even necessary.  Most ladies I know have an entire salon’s worth of supplies at home, and just volunteering to do their nails for them while they sit back and catch up on their magazines or book reading or Facebooking or Words with Friends is worth its weight in gold.  And seriously?  I don’t know any woman who will say no to a gift certificate to anything.  Just giving us free money to shop is exciting enough, even if it is the local Rainbow Foods.  Let’s have a talk about wine now...  Does mama have a particular wine that she likes?  Well then, ha ha ha...get her a case of that shit and let her store it for future use.  Or she can drink it over a few days’ time.  Mama Lanette is not one to judge your mama’s drinking habits.

Step 5:  Mother’s Day Food and Drinks.  This varies by individual, so take a deep dive into your mama’s head and think about her and what she likes to eat and drink.  Remember…it is MOTHER’S DAY.  It is about her, not you. Mama Lanette’s perfect Mother’s Day menu would be an unlimited supply of Barefoot Riesling on ice (cuz she is redneck in that way) and an assortment of tacos.  That’s all, simple.  Does your mama love coffee and pizza?  Then give her coffee and pizza!  BUT give her the best coffee and pizza she could ever ask for!   Is it Diet Coke and chocolate?  Get her a 12 pack of Diet Coke and stick it in a cooler full of ice so it is at its iciest, frostiest, and coldest it can get right before freezing point, and then go to the nearest chocolatier and buy the best chocolate you can afford.  Does she have a favorite restaurant?  Order food from that restaurant to go, and bring it home and let her snack off of it the entire day, OR bring it home for a big dinner with the family.  Just make sure she gets what she wants!

Step 6:  Minions.  Yep.  You read that correctly.  This is key to a successful Mother’s Day.  Clean the house you lazy freaks!  Your mama takes pretty good care of you year round, and I think you can all get off your lazy asses and give her ONE day where her house is clean, the dishes are washed, the toilet paper roll is filled, and dinner is prepared or ordered out (we don’t care which as long as we don’t have to get dressed and put makeup on), and the dog crap is picked up in the yard.  One day…c’mon…it’s yo MAMA….you can do it!   

Step 7:  Bedtime.  The sign of a truly successful Mother’s Day is watching Mama suddenly stand, lazily stretch and yawn, and head off to bed  a good hour or two ahead of norm without having to clean, cook, or prepare for the next day…just saying…maybe y’all could clean up after dinner, take your baths, and make your own lunches (for the next day) this one evening?  And if Daddy happens to suddenly stretch, yawn, and head upstairs after her, well…it’s Mother’s Day (he’s probably tired from all the work he did running for her all day to keep her happy)   ;-)

Cupcakes for muh mama!

It's that time of year again! Time to celebrate Mom, which means my weekly recipe is dedicated to Mama Lanette. I was pretty lost on where to go with it, asking advice of other moms I knew on what they thought a good recipe would be. But then I really started thinking about MY mom and what SHE likes... I mean, I know she likes food, but what is it that she LOVES?! And then it came to me, wine.  Mama Lanette sure does love her wine. Don't believe me? Come on over and check out the three empty bottles of Barefoot Riesling displayed on a shelf from when she helped us move. Three bottles, one night, just her. Yes, she's classy like that. I really hope you enjoy this recipe because it's a Riesling Cupcake! Jigga wut now?! Yes that's right, I put wine and cupcakes together. Where's my reward?

Cupcake Ingredients:
2/3 cup of butter, soft
1 1/2 cup of white sugar
2 3/4 cup of flour
3 teaspoons of baking powder
1 teaspoon of salt
3/4 cup of Riesling
3 eggs or 7 egg whites
1 teaspoon of vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream together butter and sugar. Make sure the butter is soft so that this doesn't become clumpy.

Add eggs or egg whites to mixture and blend well. Add Riesling and vanilla and again, mix well.

Next we will be adding flour. Now, if you don't have a flour sifter, go get one! I was one of those people who completely didn't think that one was needed. I got one around Christmas this last year and man oh man, it DOES make a difference. It just makes everything smoother, even if it does add on a little time to your process. DO IT! GO BUY ONE! ... But yeah, add flour. You can just add it all at once and mix it, or you can add it a cup at a time, mixing well between.Then add baking powder and salt and give it one last mix.

This should make between 20-26 cupcakes depending on how much batter you put in. I use an ice cream scoop for my cupcakes. I find that this is the perfect size and helps it where they are pretty even in size.

Bake between 15-20 minutes. Stick a fork or a tooth pick in one to see if it comes out clean. If it's clean, then it's finished baking. Let cool as you make the frosting.

Frosting Ingredients:
2 cups of shortening
8 cups of powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon of salt
2 teaspoons of lemon extract or any extract of choice
6-8 ounces of heavy whipping cream

Using a mixer, beat two cups of shortening in a bowl. Do this until it becomes a creamy texture.

Cup by cup, add powdered sugar to shortening. This is not fun, nor is it clean. Don't be a jackhole like me and wear all black while doing this. With each cup it's going to become tougher to blend well but keep going. Once all 8 cups are added quickly mix in salt.


Measure out 6 ounces of heavy whipping cream. I always start out with six just in case that is enough. Blend at a very high speed with a mixer for a few minutes. If you feel like you need to, add in the extra 2 ounces of heavy whipping cream and blend again on a high speed.

Add in the flavor extract of choice and blend again. You're going to see here that mine is pink. I added in some food coloring cause once again, this recipe is for muh Mama and she loves her some pink. Frost the way you desire.

AND WALA! Here's a cupcake perfect for those wine lovers! Happy (early) Mother's Day to my lovely Mommi Dearest. ;)

Tomato Basil Turkey Meatloaf

I love this meatloaf.  And it has to be turkey.  If you make this with beef or pork, it just won’t taste the same, so there.  I actually love all meatloaf, but this is my favorite so far.  Although, I must admit, Alyssa JoJo’s meatloaf cupcakes are looking mighty fantastico, and I will be trying them in the very near future.  I mean, really?!?  Bacon wrapped, cheese stuffed, mashed potato topped, and BBQ sauce drizzled? 

Anyway, my tomato basil turkey meatloaf is relatively easy, healthy, and very tasty.  The ketchup/dressing combo is homage to the SOB who loves the traditional ketchup-topped meatloaf, but I wanted to spice the flavors up to match the Italian theme.  It is my favorite flavor combination by far (but you can throw tomato and basil in pretty much anything and I will chow it down).  I always make a big batch of it and freeze it (see below).  I hope you try this and enjoy it!  As always, comments are appreciated!

2 pounds ground turkey

2 cups breadcrumbs

2 eggs

Sundried tomato/basil pesto * see note

1 large or 2 small cloves garlic, minced

1 medium onion, chopped small

Ketchup

Sundried tomato vinaigrette or Italian style salad dressing of your choice

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a bowl, combine ground turkey, eggs, tomato/basil pesto, garlic, and onion.  Add 1-1/2 cups of bread crumbs.  Using your hands, mix thoroughly.  If mixture feels too wet, add the rest of the bread crumbs.  If it feels okay, leave the remainder of the bread crumbs out.  You don’t want to add too much in the breadcrumb department.  If the mixture is too dry feeling before baking, it will be far too dry after baking, and that, my freaks, is why so many generations before us will swear upon somebody’s grave that they despise meatloaf; a horrid 25% meat:75% cornflake/saltine cracker/breadcrumb ratio (to be economical).  I say, start out by adding 1-1/2 cups, and if it feels gross icky sticky, add the other ½ cup, but no more than that.  If you think you need to add the other ½ cup, here is what you do…you yell, “Hey, *insert name here*,  get your ass out here in the kitchen and pour this ½ cup of breadcrumbs into my bowl!”  Then they do that, and you can continue mixing away.  It is really gross touching stuff with meaty hands, so just don’t do it.  Ask for some help.

Okay, now listen carefully to this next part…there is no shame in wearing rubber gloves when mixing any sort of ground beef mixture, or working with raw meat in general.  Mama Lanette does it all the time.  In fact, I always buy myself a cheap box of rubber gloves when I visit the local Menard’s or Home Depot and keep them handy for times when I have to make burger patties, meatloaf or meatballs, separate family packs of chicken breasts for freezing, etc.  *gag*.  They also come in very handy when you are dealing with hot peppers.  In the words of Taylor Swift, “never ever ever” cut jalapenos, or any hot peppers of like, and then touch your face, eyes, lips, open sores, etc.   Doing so will result in hours of excruciating pain and a delay in dinner that will really tick off the family.  The simple wearing of rubber gloves can prevent many a dinner time fiasco.  Anyhoo, rubber gloves are a friend in the kitchen, yo.  They also help in the sanitary department if you are a lover of the fake nail…but I digress.

Add mixture into a bread pan and smooth down the top.  Place into preheated oven and bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees.  Remove meatloaf  from  the oven and drizzle top with ketchup and dressing.  Blend the  two sauces together lightly with a knife or back of spoon.  Bake for another ½ hour until somewhat caramelized looking.  Remove from oven and let sit 10-15 minutes.

 Here is my favorite part!  Having only two people in my household, one of whom does not care to eat leftovers, and the other of whom has an eating disorder, I LOVE making things that I can wrap up and freeze for a future meal.  Meatloaf is a remarkable candidate for this.  Once the meatloaf has set, I slice it into six thick pieces.  Two are served for dinner immediately with a nice veggie side.  The other four are separated into two foil packages.  These are then marked with a Sharpie, cooled, and stored in the freezer for future dinners.  See how that works?!?!?  One evening of cooking = THREE meals!  That means there are two free evenings when Mama Lanette can come home and spend some time with her sexy Mr. Riesling rather than slaving away in the kitchen making dinner.  I love to cook, but some nights, everybody needs a night off. 

*note – I make my own tomato basil pesto.  There, I’ve said it, and I feel good about it, gosh darnit!  I have posted in the past how easy it is to dry your own tomatoes, and I do this every year and swear by it.  I freeze them in Ziploc bags, and I also make dried tomato/basil pesto and freeze it in ice cube trays to use throughout the year in an assortment of things from dips to meatloaf.  I am well aware, however, that this may not be a common household item, so I am going to give a few options for substitutions:

Buy some sundried tomato/basil tapenade and use 2-3 tablespoons.  Taste first to determine saltiness, as olives may be used in the mixture.

Use tomato paste and basil.  I would say about 3 tablespoons tomato paste and 1 tablespoon dried basil (2 tablespoons if fresh)

 

Buy some sundried tomatoes and fresh basil.  Place in a food processer and drizzle with olive oil.  Pulse until a chunky paste.  Add approximately two ice cube sized dollops.  Freeze remainder and use at a later time.

Enjoy your meatloaf,  little freaks!  <3  Mama Lanette

Meatloaf Cupcakes by JoJo

Sometimes you have an idea that is just so amazing that you can't wait to get it going. That's how I feel about this recipe. Now I'm not saying I'm the only one who has done thing, or the only one who has ever come up with this idea, but let's just say that where I'm from, you can't get a meat cupcake! And after doing this all I can say is, *insert caveman voice* meat cupcake gooood.

 Ingredients Set One (Meatloaf Mixture):
2.5 pounds ground meat of choice. You can even mix up some meats. We picked turkey.
One package of bacon. (Again, we did turkey bacon)
3 cups of panko or bread crumbs
Two eggs
One large onion, chopped
2 cups of milk
Salt and Pepper to taste
2 tablespoons of brown sugar
2 tablespoons of dijon mustard
1/3 cup ketchup
4 tablespoons of steak seasoning
4 garlic cloves, minced
6 ounces of cheese of choice (We did a local provolone)

Ingredients Set Two (Barbeque Sauce):
1 cup ketchup
1 cup water
1/2 cup molasses
1/4 cup vinegar
1/4 cup dijoin mustard
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon of garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon of chili powder
1/4 teaspoon of hot sauce
1 tablespoon of steak seasoning
*Don't be a freaky deek and feel ashamed if you go get yourself a bottle of Famous Dave's or the like in place of creating your own sauce.  Not everybody is up to this, or may have the time.  Sauce sometimes is something that needs to be worked up to in the kithcen skill area.  Do what you feel comfortable with.

Ingredients Set Three (Potato Topping):
3/4 5lb bag of potatoes (3.75 pounds)
1 stick of butter
1/4 cup of milk
Salt and Pepper to taste

First we are going to start by making a BBQ sauce. The ingredients you are going to use are set two of ingredients. Just put all ingredients into a bowl and mix well. You are going to find that this is very... watery? Not really a thick texture. We're going to fix this by placing the BBQ sauce in a pan and letting it simmer on the stove. Make sure to keep your eye on this while working with the other things we're going to do. This should finish up in around 20-30 minutes. DO not boil - we don't want this burning.

 Now peel and cut your potatoes into small pieces. Boil in some salt water. You want to start the potatoes before the meatloaf because we want them at a simi cool state before we start the meat loaf. You'll see why later. Now, one the potatoes can easily be pierced with a fork, drain. Plop down a stick of butter with 1/4 cup of milk in with the drained potatoes and mash well. This is one of those times where you really don't want chunky mashed potatoes. We used a ricer first on just the potatoes, and then a masher with the milk and butter. Smooth, smooth, smooth. Once you get them nice and smooth salt and pepper to taste.

 Once the potatoes are mashed you are going to mix all the ingredients from set one. Yep, that's right! Once again we are just throwing everything together. Make sure to put them all into a decently sized bowl other wise the next part is going to be messier than it already is. Now, stick your hands in and mix everything together! You can try to do it other ways, but this will seriously work the best. Make sure to have a helper around if possible because you may find that you need more bread/panko crumbs. It's way easier to have them dumped them in for you if possible rather than having to wash your hands and add more yourself. Once you have it decently mixed together you can use a wooden spoon to mix it more if you feel the need.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In two giant cupcake pans (6 cupcakes) take 12 strips of bacon and line the tins with it. You can choose to use two pieces of bacon if you want.

Once you have the bacon inserted, fill each hole up halfway with the meat loaf mixture. With your fingers burrow a little bowl into the meatloaf. Make sure you don't go too deep, we don't want to see the pan. Take 1/2 ounce of cheese (your choice) and put it in your little meat bowl. Cover with more meatloaf, making a decent sized cupcake. Once you have 12 healthy looking cupcakes made, put in your oven for 15 minutes.

Now, hopefully you have been watching your BBQ sauce during all of this - stirring often. It should be done around this time. We had ours cook down to about half it's size which gave it the consistency we wanted. Now you can just leave it in your pot if you want to use a spoon later to add to your cupcake, but we put it in a plastic condiment bottle.  You will have leftovers of the sauce.

After you take the BBQ sauce completely off the heat, you should still have some baking time left on your cupcakes o'meat. I spent this time putting my mashed potatoes in a piping bag for frosting cakes. You do NOT have to get this fancy by any means, but I honestly just thought it would be easier. I used one piping bag full per 6 cupcakes.  You can also use a Ziplock bag for this.  Fill the bag, squeeze excess air out, seal, and cut a corner off, voila!  Piping bag!

 

Now we should be close to our 15 minutes being up. Remove cupcakes from oven and frost them with your mashed potatoes. Once done put back into the oven for 15-20 minutes. I know that meatloaf normally takes an hour but remember, this isn't a big loaf. The cupcakes are smaller so they don't need to cook that long. If you are feeling skeptical, keep one cupcake unfrosted that you can cut into to see if the meat is done.

Once cupcakes are done put them onto a plate and drizzle the BBQ over them. Enough to fully cover the cupcake. And there you go! I found this to be easier than I thought it would be! Timing everything can get a little stressful, but the majority of it was just mixing a bunch of stuff together. We did have mashed potatoes left over and ended up eating them on the side. Enjoy carnivorously!

JoJo's Spaghetti Squash Boats

Hey Everyone! Sorry for the pause again! Mama Lanette and I are finding that this blog is more work than we expected! That's not a bad thing, but we need to work better at getting our two recipes a week in! But I'm happy to say that we're coming back with what I think is a really good recipe! Let's get to it!

Ingredients:
2 small spaghetti squash (Or one medium)
1 pound of meat of your choice. We picked some ground Italian pork because it was cheap. But feel free to do ground turkey or whatever you want.
1/2 cup of chopped onion
1/2 cup of chopped green pepper
1/2 cup of chopped mushrooms
3 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 teaspoon of dried basil
1/2 teaspoon of dried oregano
3 medium tomatoes, diced
1/2 cup of shredded mozzarella, or cheese of choice
Salt and Pepper to taste

First preheat your oven to 375 degrees. As your oven is preheating cut your spaghetti squash in half. Now if you have a medium one this can be a struggle. There's been a few times where I could be found sitting on the kitchen floor with my knife fully stuck in a spaghetti squash trying to bang it on the floor to get it all the way through. It gets easier though! But as I was saying, you're going to want to cut the squashes in half and then gut the seeds out of it. Like a cantaloupe! Once that is done you will place them gut side down on a cookie sheet and put them in the oven for 40-45 minutes.

While those are cooking, start browning your meat of choice. Don't worry about seasoning it this point, just brown it and drain it. As you're cooking that, take the time to dice up your onions, tomatoes, peppers, and mushrooms. Make sure to dice them small, but not small enough to be considered minced.







Once the ground meat is done, remove from the stove and drain all grease. We will then add all of the chopped veggies and seasonings. We will cook these on low until the onion is cooked fully and the flavors get a good mixture.

Depending on how long this takes, your squash should be done or close to done. Remove the squash from the oven and give it 5-10 minutes to cool. It will still be hot to the touch after this but not so much where you can't touch it when needed. Flip the squash over and, using a fork, scrape out the insides. Now make sure you leave some inside because we will be using the "shell" later on. Take about a cup out of each half if using two small ones, or two cups of each if using a big one.





Add the squash into the skillet with the meat mixture and mix well. Cook on a low heat for about 10 minutes, until all liquid has evaporated. Make sure to mix once about every two minutes.








As you are cooking the mixture, take time to shred the cheese. You might have bought preshredded too, but just so you do know, the way that they keep that cheese from clumping in that bag is they add wood pulp. Cleaner foods equals a better you!








Once you are done with the cheese and your meat mixture, take the four, or two, shells that you have and equally put the meat mixture in the squash shells. Bake these at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes. Once those are done add your cheese and bake for about another 5 minutes.






And there you go! Not only do you have an amazing dinner that tastes oh so good, but you are also eating something healthy! And this is something that you can play with and make healthier if you wanted.

And as an extra treat I have a second recipe for you. Now this is something that I literally dreamed up. I've really been thinking about rice bowls lately. Trying to figure out a way to make them with spaghetti squash. I don't really have pictures for step by step since I wasn't even making this for the blog, but after eating it and seeing how good it was I wanted to share. Not only did this get the thumbs up by BBB, but my picky eater friend Stephy Bee also nommed this down!

Ingredients:
Four cups of spaghetti squash
One cup of frozen peas
One cup of carrots chopped up
One cup of cabbage shredded
4 eggs
2 tablespoons of soy sauce
1 tablespoon of brown sugar
2 tablespoons of sesame oil
3 tablespoons of water

Bake spaghetti squash with the same instructions of above recipe. As squash is baking, heat up sesame oil and saute the veggies. Once squash is done, take a fork to it and get about four cups of "noodles" out. Mix veggies and squash into a decent size bowl. Take soy sauce, brown sugar, and water and mix together, and then pour into the squash and veggies and mix well. Set aside and fry up your four eggs. Split the squash mixture into four different bowls and lay one fried egg onto each bowl. EAT AWAY!!!

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam!

Hey Everyone! Happy (early) Easter. Alyssa JoJo here with a short and easy recipe for ham for the crock pot! Lets get to it.

Ingredients:
6-8 pound ham. (We accidentally bought already pre-cut ham but it made no difference.)
1 can of Coca Cola
1/2 cup of brown sugar
3 tablespoons of dry mustard
Molasses





Now just pour that can of coke right into the crock pot. See... look at how easy that first step is.












Now take that jar of molasses. Now what I did was pour some into a bowl and dipped my fingers in that sweet dark syrup and rubbed it all over the ham. Gave it a nice good massage. Add enough to make sure the ham has a good goopy dark tone to it.









Now mix that brown sugar and that dry mustard together in a clean bowl. Once again just dip your hands into that and rub/pat it onto your ham. I go a little easy until I make sure that the full ham is covered, and then cake the rest on. (See! Again look at how easy that is!)







Now just stick that ham into the crock pot and cook on low for 6-8 hours. BAM HAM! Sorry, no finished pictures from just pure laziness and righteous hunger!  Have a fantastic holiday!