Friday, June 3, 2011

Ham and Cheese Pot Pie

I am all about simple. For a health fair at Schrieber Cheese (a cheese plant here in Logan) on June 17, I was assigned a booth. We decided that each of our booths would have a movie theme. So I thought and thought and finally remembered the movie Ratatouille where Gusteau tells Ratatouille, "Like I always say, anyone can cook." So I decided on this for my theme, ways to make homemade dinners and keep it simple. So I have been looking for recipes and ways to do this. Some websites that I frequently use are allrecipes.com and kraftfoods.com. So I was search on Kraft something that I could make with ham in it, (because Ben and Heidi gave us some ham steaks from their pig and I had no idea what to do with it!) I happened upon this recipe and it is exactly what I was looking for simple and delicious!

Recipe adapted from kraftfoods.com
(I only used 2x as much broccoli and no cauliflower. Also I just made biscuit dough and rolled it really thin and used that instead of pie crust!)

1 ham steak (6 oz.), chopped
1 cup KRAFT 2% Milk Shredded Cheddar Cheese
1 cup frozen broccoli cuts, thawed, drained
1 cup frozen cauliflower florets, thawed, drained
2 green onions chopped
1/2 cup (1/2 of 8-oz. tub) cream cheese
1 ready-to-use refrigerated pie crust (1/2 of 14.1-oz. pkg.)
1 egg
1 Tbsp. water
HEAT oven to 400ºF
COMBINE first 5 ingredients. Microwave cream cheese spreadin microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1 min. or until completelymelted, stirring every 15 sec. Add to ham mixture; mix well.Spoon into 4 (6-oz.) ramekins.
UNROLL pie crust on lightly floured surface; roll to 12-inchcircle. Cut into 4 circles with 5-inch round cookie cutter. Cutleaves from about 1/4 of the trimmings with small cookie cutteror sharp knife; discard remaining trimmings.
BEAT egg and water until well blended; brush onto top edgeof ramekins. Top with pie crust circles; press gently onto toedges of ramekins to seal. Top with leaf cutouts; brush lightlywith egg wash. Discard any remaining egg wash. Placeramekins on baking sheet. Cut slits in crusts to vent.
BAKE 30 to 32 min. or until golden brown.
Enjoy!!