Day 48

What's on the menu:

Ham
Turnip salad (turnip greens)
Devil eggs
Homemade applesauce

Ham

1 Smithfield ham slice
Place ham slice into frying pan with a little water and boil on each side until the water is cooked out. Continue to fry ham until brown on each side. Take ham out and add 1/4 water back into pan where the meat browned and let water come to boil. This will make a gravy like glaze to serve with the ham.

Turnip salad

I cooked my once a year pot of turnip salad today and froze my yearly quota.
I went out to a farm about 1/2 mile from my house and picked salad for 1 1/2 hours. I was way back in a field close to the woods where no one could see me and it was all very quiet. About an hour into picking all of a sudden about two feet from me I heard noise and rustling and all of a sudden this dog is on my leg. Well I about messed myself. I talked to that dog about 5 minutes like he was human telling him how he had scared me to death. It took me that long to get my heart beat down.

I came home and washed all the salad and put into a huge pot of boiling water with a ham hock in it. I even added about 5 slices of bacon as it was a huge pot. It boiled about and hour and as it cooked I add a little sugar, salt and pepper every so often until the taste was to my liking.

I drained and chopped and froze and kept one bowl for dinner tonight. It was so tender and fresh. I love to cook it this way and whenever I want it during the year, I only have to go to freezer and take it out. It just needs to be heated and it's ready.

Deviled eggs

Boil eggs in water about 15 minutes and a little salt so the shells won't crack. Drain and cool and peel the shells off. Cut the eggs in half. Put the cooked yolks into a small bowl and mash. Add a little mustard, mayonnaise and salt and pepper and mix all together. Put back into egg halves and sprinkle red pepper or paprika on top if like.

Homemade applesauce

I made applesauce about a month ago and took out a jar of that.