Veronica the Lazy Diva's Quasi-Crafty Blog: September 2013

I took a little blog vacation, but now I'm back, refreshed, and hopefully I'm going to be more inspired in the future. Today is not that day, but I figured I'd do a blog warm-up. I'm upfront about my laziness, and I may have mentioned I work a bunch of hours....normally 4 days a week. When a holiday like Labor Day comes around, I work 6. Now I am always happy to complain about my crazy schedule... but I can't compete with my hubby, not only does he work 12 hour days, he works a swing shift on top... it's 4 day on 2 days off, and then it flip flops from day to night every week. IT'S CRAZY!!! Today is day 4 of his night schedule, and is one of my days off, so I decided to be nice and cook. Now I have a few meals that I want to make that involve a crockpot and time, but I slept in way too late and had errands to run, so quick and easy won.

For Christmas last year my husband's company gave the employees each a big old frozen ham. This was pre-blog....but I did a kind of fun self-challenge... since it's just the two of us, (not counting the animals,) I decided to see how long and far I could stretch this ham. Using pinterest, scouring the internet, and just experimenting I made it almost a full week cooking nothing but ham dishes for dinner. I made the big old ham and mashed potatoes dinner with ham gravy, ham and scalloped potatoes, ham chowder, and a few other interesting recipes. Halfway through the week I was almost going to break down and make "holiday bread" a.k.a. "garbage bread".....( my Mom used to make it for Christmas every few years when I was growing up, and I LOVED IT!!) I just knew I couldn't do it justice, and I didn't have the time to make this into a whole production, so I stumbled on a recipe for crescent roll-ups. Out of everything I made that week, this was by far hubby's absolute favorite... he just LOVED it! So since then, I've made several variations of meals using Pillsbury Crescent Rolls, and other products. Probably not the healthiest, but some of the yummiest.... and they are quick and easy which I love. So, when I spotted the ham steak, and the crescent rolls in the fridge.... I knew what I was making today!

The Lazy Diva's Cheesy Ham and Pepperoni Roll Ups

INGREDIENTS:

Tube of Crescent Rolls

Cooked Ham

Pepperoni

Cheddar Cheese

Italian Blend Shredded Cheese

1 Egg

PRE-HEAT THE OVEN TO 350 degrees.

STEP ONE:

Chop and slice the ham, pepperoni and cheddar into small pieces. You can use any blend of meats and cheeses you like...these were what I had handy. I used just a couple slices of pepperoni, to enhance the flavor... but I wanted this to be the ham's show.

STEP TWO:

Add an Egg to a bowl, and lightly whisk it a bit.

Look I used a real bowl!! Mostly because the paper bowls are too small...

STEP THREE:

Add the ham, pepperoni, cheddar, and a handful of the shredded cheese to the bowl with the egg and mix it all together.

STEP FOUR:

Open the Crescent rolls and take two out at a time. Try not to split them up! You want to press and blend the middle seam so instead of two pieces you have one. Today I used the 'Big and Buttery' Crescents, so I only made four. If you want more smaller ones, get the regular size crescents, just as yummy.

STEP FIVE:

Add the meat and cheese blend to crescent roll and wrap it up.

I loaded these up since they were the big ones.... in the end you just want to be able to seal them up by pinching the dough so there are no holes or gaps if possible.

I have two techniques for filling and closing.

The wrap up... where I put all the mixture in the middle and bring all the dough to the center and pinch it together.