On Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 5:06:01 PM UTC-4, Nellie wrote:
> I've always, for the past twenty-five years or so, gotten a Honeybaked ham but for the last couple of years it has not been good.
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> So, I am in search of a ham to cook, slice, and bring with us. I have Lunardis, Nob Hill/Raley's, and all the national chains available to me. I will probably go with Lunardis, where I buy all my meat, and can get baking instructions from them.
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> However, any additional hints as to cooking a ham would be appreciated as I haven't done one in many years.
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> TIA
>
> Nellie

Carando (brand, cured, smoked, spiral cut) half hams on sale for $1.99
per pound in the local grocery store ($1.89 seen in circulars for other markets near here).

An impulse purchase, as I wasn't planning to serve ham for
Easter, nor do we celebrate Easter anyways :-).

Salty, yes! Slightly smokey, yes! Not tasting of chemicals, yes!
Wonderful lightly pan-fried with eggs for Sunday breakfast, yes!

I now have enough ham in the freezer to last me the rest of the year,
much like snarfing up cheap corned beef before Saint Patrick's Day.

Loss leaders rule :-) As does living in a significantly Catholic
(Irish, Quebecois, Italian) town/region :-)

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Silvar Beitel