Jan Jo's Ham, Tater and Green Beans

This recipe has been handed down for five generations.  We call it Ham, Taters and Green Beans.  My grandmother Georgia Gunter Hirsch, affectionately known as "Jan Jo" made it at least once a week.  It was a family favorite.

                                                                 

Brady Bunch Pork Chops

Ok.....so this recipe is really called Easy Pork Chops but I always think of the Brady Bunch when we have pork chops.  Remember the episode when Peter said, "Pork chops and applesauce."  Those  words, for some strange reason, are embedded in my head forever!  

You only need four ingredients...

1 can of Cheddar Cheese Soup
1 can French Onion Soup
4-6 potatoes (peeled)
4-6 pork chops

Chop potatoes and place them in the bottom of a casserole dish.

Place pork chops on top of potatoes (Seriously, does it get any easier?)

Mix soups and pour over potatoes and pork chops.   Sprinkle with salt and pepper.

Cover with foil and cook for about 1 1/2 hours @ 350 degrees......cook till potatoes are tender.

Serve with a little applesauce if you want to and watch some reruns of the Brady Bunch!  

Enjoy!

God Bless America

My Obsession

I love anything that is vintage rodeo/cowboy!  My heart is known to skip beats when I find antique cowboy treasures.  My friends and family will tell you my house is packed full of these unique finds.  I call it my obsession because I really don't have any more room for these treasures but I just can't resist the urge to buy more!  So here is my plan.....if I bring it home (and I will) I must find a purpose for it!

One Saturday, while out antiquing, I found four of these old children's cowboy holsters!

Oh the fun a little cowboy had with these back in the day!  As I stood there, thinking of the little cowpokes that had played with these, I knew I had to come up with a way to use them in my house.  And then it came to me....I would use them with my western dishes to hold the napkins and silverware at dinner time.

I already had some really cute napkins that would be perfect in each holster.

 Here is the holster with the western dishes I found in an antique store in Cheyenne, Wyoming!  So cute and so easy!

When I'm not using the holsters as napkin holders for a place setting they are used to display vintage cowboy pistols on my dining room table.

There will be more to come about these little holsters!  Wait till you see my idea for Christmas!

Retired candlesticks and dessert plates rewired into a dessert pedestal!

Dessert Pedestal

I found 4 dessert plates at Goodwill.  They were .69 each.  I then put them on top of different heights of crystal candlesticks and wallah a dessert pedestal!!!!