HAM LOAF Ingredients For Ham Loaf

How to Make Ham Loaf

1.  Mix ground pork, ground ham, milk and corn flakes and form into a loaf.
2. Place loaf in a casserole dish or loaf pan, leaving room for the sauce
3. Mix the ingredients for the sauce in a pan over medium heat. 
4. Heat on stove until mixture thickens and sugar completely dissolves.
5. Pour mixture over ham loaf and bake at 350 for one hour.
6. Internal temperature should read 160 degrees.

FRIED PORK CHOPS

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Ingredients for Fried Pork Chops

• 6-8 Bone in Pork Chops
• ½ cup of vegetable oil
• 2 cups of all purpose flour
• 1 tsp steak seasoning
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp pepper
• Salt and Pepper to taste

How to make Fried Pork Chops

1. In a large skillet, heat the cooking oil over medium heat.
2. Rinse and pat pork chops with a paper towel.
3. Add flour, steak seasoning, salt and pepper to a gallon size bag.  Seal and mix all ingredients.
4. Check the skillet, make sure the oil is hot enough to cook pork chops.
5. Add one pork chop at a time to the mixture and coat, set aside on a plate.
6. Cook chops 3-4 minutes on each side, checking temperature, 160 degrees.
7. Remove from skillet and place on a clean plate.

Notes on making Fried Pork Chops

• Use an electric skillet if you have one on hand.

1. You meet a lot of families with the same interest as yours.
   
   Photography, foods, animals, or learning about lawn mower parts, you are going to find that these parents are teaching their kids the same thing you want to teach your kids.  Chores, responsibility, life skills and knowing their way around the kitchen.  Survival.  Think you did it right the first time? Let's do it again!  Knowing other families with the same interests gives you someone to talk to, with questions about feeding, picking out an animal to purchase.  I have had conversations with some 4-H moms about the best brand of flour to use for our kids foods project.
   
   
   
2. You discuss more livestock than you ever thought you would at the dinner table
   My son started talking about sows at the dinner table that I'm sure most kids don't talk about. My daughter's friends who were over for the evening learned a few things. One time my son started talking about pigs when we were out to eat.  He was helping another breeder and was beginning to learn about what it takes to breed a sow.  I thought my husband wanted to hide under the table.  
3. There are deadlines to meet, and we like to push it to the last minute.
   
   As parents, we promise ourselves we are starting projects "earlier next year"  and many can be completed in the winter time.  Time tends to get away from us, and most projects are completed, just in time for check-in on general projects day. 
   
   
   
4. When things start disappearing from the house, you know it's probably out in the barn.
   
   My kitchen ladder disappeared this spring.  I  use it to get to the top shelf in the kitchen.  I'm that short, or my cabinets are just too tall.  The ladder is being used to hang lights, and fans, and hold a door open.
   
   I'd love to hear what kind of soap is your favorite to use on pigs, we use Dawn. You know why it gets the grease out! So when we run out, the kids pull mine from the kitchen sink.
   
   We like to give pigs treats.  It's a late night snack or a way to coax them to walk out of the barn, or a little further down the lane.  All the marshmallows are currently cleared out of the pantry.
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. The family spends a lot of time in the barn.
   In the evening, we tend to gather in the alley of the barn, sitting in folding chairs, or on buckets. We watch the pigs eat, and we watch them sleep.  When we finally look at our watches, we know its late, and time for us to head to bed ourselves.
   
   
   
   
6. Learn from the Mistakes                             
   
   Last year, my son took lawn mowers for the first time.  There was a driving test and a written test.  He became so confident in driving the course, he bumped the throttle up.  When he bumped up the throttle, his speed increased.  He approached the end of the course with too much speed and knocked off the golf ball from the last post.  That lesson will always be remembered.  Learn from the mistakes so you can do better the next time.  
7. Celebrate the victories
   Celebrate the victories, no matter how small. The blue ribbon in foods, completing the tractor course. Embrace your kids and tell them you love them and are proud of them.  At the end of the week, when the family packs up the trailer and pick up the projects, you realize how fast the week went at the fair.  Take those victories and apply them to the next year.

1. Pour half canned tomatoes in the bottom of the crock pot. Top with half peppers and onions. Sprinkle garlic in and top with chicken breasts.
2. Whisk chili powder, cumin, paprika, coriander, salt and pepper. Evenly sprinkle half of seasoning over chicken breasts, then flip chicken breasts and season with remaining spices.  Top with the remaining peppers and onions.
3. Cover crock pot and cook on high 3-4 hours or 6-7 hours on low.
4. Remove chicken and cut in strips, or shred chicken breasts.
5. Scoop out 1 cup of broth.
6. In small bowl, whisk together lime juice and honey and add to crock pot with chicken and season with salt to taste.
7. Serve with warm tortillas with sour cream, guacamole, cheese, salsa.

1. Hard Work Pays Off   This pertains to so many things. Practice makes perfect. It is very evident who has worked hard on a project on show day. It is noticeable as soon as the animal enters the ring.  If you want it bad enough, you will work for it.
   
   
   
2. Work Hard, Play Harder Fair time is a great time to kick back and relax and have a great time.  We always feel like we can relax the day after the show.  Then we enjoy watching the beef and dairy shows the end of the week.

   4-H Beginner Showmanship Winners

3. Deadlines Deadlines are very important. Register for 4-H, deadline to register your animals, record book deadlines, and state fair deadlines. One day, your kids will have deadlines with their jobs, and hopefully these skills will help them meet their deadlines.