I have come up with a number of ways to use our leftover Christmas ham, but I am open to additional suggestions.
Items on the menu include:
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Ham and rottelini cheese casserole using a parmesan and mozzarella cheese sauce (which was delicious)
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Grilled ham and cheese sandwiches
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Ham hash (delicious but a shit ton of work)
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Ham and pasta alfredo
We had the casserole last night for dinner and the grilled ham and cheeses for lunch. Both delicious.
The ham hash will be good too but it's a lot of work, starting with cooking potatoes with the ham bone tonight, leaving them in the fridge overnight and then dicing everything up in the morning (onion, carrot, potatoes, leftover ham). It's easily 90 minutes of prep and cleaning time all in, but it has become a holiday tradition so I'm kinda' stuck now.
But even with all of that it looks like I'm still going to have some more ham to use up. I've learned how to cook several of the basic French and Italian starter sauces, so I have many options, including a variety of cream and cheese sauces, but I've already done a cheese sauce with the casserole and I'm not yet sold on using it with my homemade alfredo sauce.
Any other suggestions would be welcome.
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Aren't you our eternally left-over X-mas ham?
Any kind of bean soup. I especially like ham and lima beans.
In our house, there is a progression.
We do the same thing with Thanksgiving.
^ Thanks guys. Unfortunately the kids don't like beans. Same with split pea soup, which is what we used to make with the ham bone and leftover meat.
Ham and Leek Pie Ham and Cheese hot pockets Ham breakfast sandwiches Ham and pineapple rice
Omelette with chopped ham, cheese, and green onion.
Ham and bean soup is the best
^ Don't disagree 48 but I'd be the only one eating it.
I'll put forth these sandwich variation ideas:
My mom used to grind up the leftover ham and make ham salad. It was awful. I don’t recommend it. A waste of good leftovers. This is kind of a midwestern thing, I think
@ RickDugan, that is even better! That helps impress the otc ladies.
===> "@ RickDugan, that is even better! That helps impress the otc ladies."
😏 Ummmm....alrighty then...
My ex mother-in-law was the worst cook in the world. With 5 children, her husband, and her mother all living under the same roof, they rarely went out to eat so she cooked dinner nearly every night. You would think all that practice would have helped, but it didn't.
The only thing she made that was even edible was "ham and noodles." When she was making "ham and noodles" everybody was looking forward to dinner. It was so simple that even SHE couldn't screw it up: diced ham, egg noodles, and ketchup.
It was hilarious to see all the compliments, as if she had actually prepared some kind of genuine meal. I think "ham and noodles" was such a relief from the other fucking garbage she served, they were overjoyed to have something that wasn't a struggle to eat.
Anyway @rickdugan, if your kids are fussy eaters, they should love it.
Add it to potato salad....potatoes ham boiled egg pickles onion mayo salt pepper.
Pasta with garlic ham pepper olive oil
Use a 12 “sheet” of Hawaiian sweet dinner rolls to make “sliders” 🍔
Slice top from the sheet of rolls and place the sheet bottom in a baking pan, layer the ham and cheese 🧀 and put the top of the sheet on top. bake it at 350 degrees until the cheese melts.
Enjoy
Denver omlette
Dr Suehs said Green Eggs and Ham :
When my oldest son was an infant, I would read a book to him before he would go to bed every night. This was his favorite. He could read it himself by the time he was 3.
^ Dr Suess
"===> "@ RickDugan, that is even better! That helps impress the otc ladies."
😏 Ummmm....alrighty then..."
If you don't believe me Rick, yall just come on down to Texas and we will get your New York ass straightened out.
Ham and wild rice soup.
Should have guessed the cow tongue eating chick would also eat ham and pineapple.
If only Bubba from Forest Gump was a pig farmer instead of a shrimp boat captain wannabe. He could fill 10 minutes in a new movie.
I’ve never had this, only seen on the Food Network but it looks amazing. Croque Monsieur
Some leftover ham is still good even after 30 years en.wikipedia.org
Invite all your Jewish friends over for dinner and tell them you are serving "elephant" steaks. Oh, and be sure to wink when you say "elephant."
Total crowd pleaser, kids and adults alike (I'll be making this myself tomorrow as it's a fave in my house and super easy!):
The dog isn't sick of it yet.
Soon though.
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