Kris wrote:

> On Aug 31, 12:34 am, Kathleen > wrote:
>
>>Dear daughter and her boyfriend know Sunday dinner is generally worth
>>showing up for and they weren't disappointed today. I'd had a craving
>>for baked ham. Not one of these boneless, presliced things, either. I
>>wanted the real deal, served up in thick slices.
>>
>>Went to Dierbergs and they didn't have a single bone-in ham. Not a butt
>>or a shank to be found. On to Schnucks, where we scored a butt-end
>>Cook's bone-in ham, one of only two left in the case.
>>
>>Baked it up, adding a glaze of pineapple juice, brown sugar, a pinch of
>>cloves and a liberal sprinkle of white pepper. The menu was rounded out
>>with a green salad, chilled pineapple chunks, sourdough bread and
>>butter, and storeboughten potato salad, which the kids complained about
>>as being inferior to homemade but which got eaten nevertheless.
>>
>>After supper we watched "Smokey and the Bandit", which none of the kids
>>had ever seen before. Which brought up the fact, somehow never
>>mentioned before, that their dad owned a black and gold Firebird nearly
>>identical to the TransAm featured in the film back when we were dating.
>> They were boggled.
>>
>>And while we watched, and reminisced about muscle cars, mullets and mini
>>skirts, we ate chocolate pie, made by my daughter, who is evolving into
>>a first-rate cook. This stuff was incredibly decadent, especially made
>>in a chocolate cookie crust. She used Ree Drummond's recipe, found hehttp://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2...love_part_iv_d...
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>
> Sounds like a nice family night. Cozy and delicious.
>
> Are you having an early Fall too? That would make a ham in the oven
> even MORE desirable.

Yeah. It only made it up to about 70 degrees.