What Do You Do with a Ham

We heat it up in a skillet and eat it with eggs fro breakfast.

Slice it and grill it on the grill, like a steak.. It is also good with BBQ sauce.

cut it up and dd it to homemade Mac and cheese and bake. Add it to Broccoli rice casserole and bake. (we use spicy cheese with this)

Eat it in sandwiches.. It also freezes great so divide it up and use it for a meal every other week..

I buy one and cut it up. I cut thick slices for hamsteaks and dice into 1/4 in cubes for mix ins. The steaks can be pan fried or baked with brown sugar and honey. The diced pieces I add to casseroles, augraten potatoes, mac and cheese, rice, or just pan fry and serve with a side.

Section it out........

ooohhhh cut it up for ham sandwiches...

set aside some for omelets..cubes again...

cube it and add it to Macaroni and Cheese.

there's much to do....i'm off to eat lunch so let me think on it some more!

I smoked my last whole ham. I used mesquite and since the ham was "fully cooked" I could do a mild, cold smoke. My kids and I loved it. We ate it for dinner in slices. I made sandwiches the next day and for a couple of days after. The next week I cut the bones out and diced a little additional ham and made ham and beans. (Three cups of dry beans, four cups of water, one diced onion, one cup of diced chili peppers without the seeds, one package of chili mix, one can of rotel, and one 26 ounce can of enchilada sauce. Boil/simmer for 3 or 4 hours or in a crock pot. When the meat falls off the ham bones, its ready.)

You can also make a chef's salad or add ham to mac and cheese, or scalloped potatoes. You could make potato soup and add ham.

You are only limited by your imagination. Go to allrecipes.com and type in "ham" in the ingredients box. You will get more recipes that you can stand.

Good luck to you and yours.

Just heat it in the oven and slice it up! Sometimes I put pineapple on it and make a quick brown sugar glaze too.

Our standard ham dinner consists of Ham, baked potato w/sour cream, broccoli w/cheese sauce and rolls. *This is my kids' favorite meal!

For the leftovers:
~Use extra rolls and then we have ham sandwiches for lunch w/the leftovers.

~Cube some up and make scrambled eggs w/ham, cheese, onions, mushrooms & tomato...YUM!

~Cube some up and make a huge chef salad.

~Sliced ham and grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup.

~Throw the bone in w/some diced onions and green peppers and some navy beans and make some corn bread.

I LOVE ham...I think it is my favorite meat...although spiral sliced ham is my all time favorite!

there are so many things you can do with leftover ham!
fried with eggs,
mixed in with homefries or potato pancakes (my favorite),
add to grilled cheese sandwiches,
add to scrambled eggs/omelette or quiche - or baked omelette,
mix cubed ham in to a cold pasta salad (vinagrette, chopped red peppers, onions, brocoli, mushrooms),
fry chopped ham then mix into hot pasta (best with peas, pink sauce - add a little cream or half&half to red sauce),
roll with swiss or chedder into boneless chicken breast, dip in egg wash & roll in bread crumbs then bake
or just plain old ham sandwich on rye with mustard. ;o)

Check out Allrecipes.com

I'm not a big fan of ham at Easter (because mine in the past have come out fairly dry) but my husband insists on it, so I keep trying.

This year I put it in a roasting rack with some water in the bottom of the pan, put some foil over it to hold in the moisture (take it off last 1/2 hr) and it came out perfectly moist, juicy and tender - the BEST ham I'd ever done.

Once cooked you can do anything with leftover ham - soups, sandwiches, diced up in potatoes (or in eggs/casseroles/salads) - it's very versatile!

Cook it all up like how the others suggested, like a roast. I usually do a little mix of of brown sugar and dijon mustard.

Then, for leftovers, have sandwiches or make this delicious chowder. (I have used both little ham chunks or sausage, both are tasty).
http://littlelovables.blogspot.com/2011/01/smoky-corn-and...

I love making split pea soup w/ ham in it.

I just pour a can of coka cola over it, cover and bake. It is easy and yummy!

You can put it in homemade mac and cheese, slice it into "steaks" and grill it with some pineapple for a summer time meal, make ham and bean soup if it has a bone (ham, green beans, broth), cut it up for omelets or scrambled eggs, cut it up for a chef salad, cut it up for baked potatoes...mmm the possibilities are endless. You could also go to allrecipes.com (like another mom suggested) and see what they have. I am never disappointed there!

I cut up the ham in slices, put in crockpot with brown sugar, pineapple and about a cup of coke.

Go to my favorite cooking website, allrecipes.com, you'll get lots of ideas!
One of my favorite ways to use ham is in a cream of potato (or leek) soup. I also like to use it in a frittata (sp?) or quiche :)

Crock pot + a can of 7Up!
Yum!

One more favorite here is Red Beans and Rice.

Ham is AWESOME, it goes so well with so many frugal ingredients and makes an otherwise vegetarian dish seem so much heartier and carnivore friendly.

Here's some ideas:

Ham and eggs (omelets, frittatas, scrambled skillets, or sliced and pan fried)
Ham and beans
Ham and potatoes (baked ham and potatoes, escalloped or au gratin potatoes with diced ham, soups)
Add diced ham and peas or broccoli to your Mac-n-cheese to change it up and make it heartier
I love chicken cordon bleu too...

Oh, and as one of the toppings on home made pizzas too.
And in salads....

Chop or grind it up for ham salad...YUM!

sandwiches, in eggs, ham loaf, ham balls, scalloped potatoes, ham and beans- I LOVE ham!

I have THE BEST way to prepare a ham!!! Not sure how big this ham is... or the shape of the cut. But if you have a crock pot, put in 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar. Then put the ham on top of that, rub an additional 1/2 cut brown sugar in to the top of this ham & put the lid on. DO NOT AD AN OUNCE OF LIQUID. The ham will provide the juices you need. Leave on low for 8 hours or so and it's just like an amazing roast beef...Falls apart. No kidding, people will ask you for the recipe if you share it. Even right now, makes me crave it... Yum & good luck with that ham...

Along with all the other suggestions, you can heat slices of it in a pan and sprinkle with a little brown sugar,, make yams or carrots and rice to go with it. Almost like Easter dinner. (o:

I use a Taste of Home recipe that is odd but very tasty.

You can take the ham to a store that has a meat department that actually cuts meat and they will slice the ham for you, otherwise just cut it yourself.

Same recipe, different site:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/apricot-brown-sugar-ham/Deta...

The most fabulous ham & potato soup w/ the leftovers...my mouth is watering just thinking about it!!!! http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/delicious-ham-and-potato-so...

We love the crockpot idea - We put the whole ham in the crock pot with a little bit of water like we do with a roast, let it cook all day on low and by dinner time it falls apart just like a roast :) Yummy! The left overs we freeze and use for breakfasts mix in with scrambled eggs, omelets, etc. The kids love it and I am not a huge ham lover, but when made this way I love it. Good luck!