Day 17

What's on the menu:

Ham slice
Home grown field peas
Baked tomatoes

Ham slice

1 Smithfield smoked center cut ham slice

These ham slices home individually wrapped. I place ham slice into a frying pan with 1/4 cup water and cover with lid.

The ham slices need to boil about 15 minutes on each side on medium high heat. I let all the water cook out and then slowly brown the ham slice on each side. The pan will have brown places on the bottom of pan. To the bottom of the pan I add about 4 TB of water and just let the water heat up and turn dark brown.

I drizzle the liquid over the cooked ham slices.

Home grown field peas

These peas are very hard to find the seeds to but we have been planting these peas in our family garden for over three generations. I just love these little tiny field peas. Some of my family members like the crowder peas or the purple hull but I only like these. They peas are very hard to shell but well worth it.

I put a quart bags of my field peas into pan with water and add 2 slices of bacon. Cover and cook the peas about an hour and fifteen minutes. About 15 minutes before peas are done; add 1 TB butter, salt and pepper to taste.

Baked tomatoes

This is an old recipe I've been use to all my life.
1 quart jar of home canned tomatoes ( you may use store bought)
1/4 cup sugar
4 slices of white loaf bread
salt and pepper to taste
5 little pieces of butter on top

I pour tomatoes into sprayed baking dish. Then I add all the next three ingredients and stir right in the baking dish. On top of this I add the butter.

Bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes or until firm.

Tonight's menu is a very plain menu but a typical meal growing up on the farm. Some days I just have to have one of these meals.