tmm99
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OK, this is not related to anything particularly to early retirement, but I just wanted to share this with you all!
Someone told me boneless ham doesn't taste the same as bone-in ham, so I recently purchased a half ham (bone-in butt portion) and simmered in a huge pot of water with onions and celery for 1.5 hours.
After 1.5 hours, I took out the ham and sliced all of it. I must tell you... I couldn't believe how good it was. I usually don't like much ham since it is usually too salty for me. I buy deli sliced forest ham at a local deli and that is not that great either. I have eaten ham dinners where ham is roasted in the oven with pineapple and what not, but that is too salty too.
This boiling method made the best ham ever... 10 times better than the ham they slice for you at a deli, in my opinion.
And I realized it is actually so much cheaper than say buying deli slices. I bought Cook's brand at a local Lucky's and paid $10 for it .. I didn't check how much it weighed, but it was lots of ham. (put the left over slices in freezer bags to freeze.) The next day, I cooked the ham bone with some chicken bones and made some broth for soups.
If you have given up on ham, try this method. It changed my mind about ham in a big way! I would never go back to packaged sliced ham or deli slices.
tmm
P.S. Don't get the spiral sliced kind... I think all the flavor would be taken out in the water.
Someone told me boneless ham doesn't taste the same as bone-in ham, so I recently purchased a half ham (bone-in butt portion) and simmered in a huge pot of water with onions and celery for 1.5 hours.
After 1.5 hours, I took out the ham and sliced all of it. I must tell you... I couldn't believe how good it was. I usually don't like much ham since it is usually too salty for me. I buy deli sliced forest ham at a local deli and that is not that great either. I have eaten ham dinners where ham is roasted in the oven with pineapple and what not, but that is too salty too.
This boiling method made the best ham ever... 10 times better than the ham they slice for you at a deli, in my opinion.
And I realized it is actually so much cheaper than say buying deli slices. I bought Cook's brand at a local Lucky's and paid $10 for it .. I didn't check how much it weighed, but it was lots of ham. (put the left over slices in freezer bags to freeze.) The next day, I cooked the ham bone with some chicken bones and made some broth for soups.
If you have given up on ham, try this method. It changed my mind about ham in a big way! I would never go back to packaged sliced ham or deli slices.
tmm
P.S. Don't get the spiral sliced kind... I think all the flavor would be taken out in the water.