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A few weeks ago I found a large ham marked down at the grocery store; Strider looooooves ham but we almost never eat it because it's almost never at a price that works well for our grocery budget. This ham did, though, and we'll be eating from it for a while to come. :)
Here are ways the ham has been used or will be used.
1) Ham Salad ~ Last night de-boned the ham and trimmed the fatty bits (but didn't throw them away!). I then ran the ham through our little food processor (it's an old Betty Crocker one and I can't find it online, so I'm wondering if they don't make it anymore. That's sad, because it's a trooper). The chopped ham went into the freezer to make ham salad for Strider's work lunches. I don't have to think about buying lunchmeat for a while now.
I ran the food processor in the bathroom because the striderling was sleeping... in an efficiency apartment, areas quickly become multipurpose. ;) If I'd done it in the kitchen, the noise of the processor would have woken him up.... and I am of the firm opinion that Sleeping Babies Should Be Allowed To Sleep.
2) I used the ham bone today to make this split pea soup. I heartily recommend the recipe! Strider didn't remember ever having split pea soup before and was intrigued by the process and a fan of the flavor, although he's now itching to try cooking it on his own so he can mess around with his own spice combinations.
3) The fatty bits I want to use as a substitute for salt pork in some version of Boston baked beans. This crockpot recipe looks pretty intriguing. The DHM has a post about cooking beans in the Common Room Kitchen and it's well worth a read if you're new to the world of dried legumes.
Other recipes that would work well for using leftover ham:
Aaaaaand now I want ham!
ReplyDeleteGetting some pork next week and would love to make some split pea soup. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteShannon
I have made Boston baked beans using the recipe above, and they were excellent. I have never had a problem with a recipe from Simply Recipes, and I've tried quite a few of the recipes on the site.
ReplyDeleteyour mention of an efficiency apartment and meat not in your budget made me think of when my first was under two and I have twins on the way and we had a very small apartment shared with two english bull terriers. I had put an the incredible remains of a roast in the fridge as I reduced the rich broth I was making for beef barley soup. Old, really old refrigerator and one of the dogs managed to open the fridge( which should have been called and icebox) and eat through most of the meat before I discovered she had done this. We had beef broth and barley soup that night!
ReplyDeleteCindy in VA
Another use for ham: fry an onion in some of the fat, add more fat, make a white sauce, add cooked green peas and chopped ham, and serve over toast or wide noodles.
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