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Boneless Ready-serve Smoked Ham
While bone-in hams are tastier, they are also quite a bit larger and I thereby only make one on special occasions when we are a good sized group for dinner. Thanksgiving and Christmas obviously come to mind. For other times I just buy a good quality precooked or ready-serve Boneless Ham. The other day I came across a 50% off sale for a 1.7kg Boneless Ham and decided to purchase it. For 4 people this will give us 2 meals. Since the ham was only $10 this works out to $1.25 per serving. Haha! I mention it only as most people love a good value.
Other than the ham I already had the other ingredients on hand…mostly. I didn’t have any Dijon Mustard left, but did have a wonderfully tasty Dutch Grain Mustard which I used instead.
Some recipes call for an oven temp at 325°F and others at 350°F, so I compromised and set mine at 335°F. At 20 minutes per pound it took 1hr and 10 minutes. While the oven was preheating I prepared a mustard, brown sugar and pineapple juice basting sauce, which is more like a paste. I scored the ham and brushed on the basting sauce. I added a ½ cup of water and some pineapple juice to my baking dish and covered the ham loosely with some aluminum foil. About halfway through I re-basted the ham and removed the tin foil.
With about 10 minutes left I melted some butter, added a half cup of packed Brown Sugar and some Pineapple juice that made for a wonderful simple syrup-type concoction. Great to pour over the ham slices once served. I also grilled some whole pineapple rings.
Once the ham came out of the oven to rest for a bit, I mashed up a big batch of potatoes with butter and some milk and they were nice and creamy and oh so smooth. We decided on corn for the vegetable.
It was delicious!
While bone-in hams are tastier, they are also quite a bit larger and I thereby only make one on special occasions when we are a good sized group for dinner. Thanksgiving and Christmas obviously come to mind. For other times I just buy a good quality precooked or ready-serve Boneless Ham. The other day I came across a 50% off sale for a 1.7kg Boneless Ham and decided to purchase it. For 4 people this will give us 2 meals. Since the ham was only $10 this works out to $1.25 per serving. Haha! I mention it only as most people love a good value.
Other than the ham I already had the other ingredients on hand…mostly. I didn’t have any Dijon Mustard left, but did have a wonderfully tasty Dutch Grain Mustard which I used instead.
Some recipes call for an oven temp at 325°F and others at 350°F, so I compromised and set mine at 335°F. At 20 minutes per pound it took 1hr and 10 minutes. While the oven was preheating I prepared a mustard, brown sugar and pineapple juice basting sauce, which is more like a paste. I scored the ham and brushed on the basting sauce. I added a ½ cup of water and some pineapple juice to my baking dish and covered the ham loosely with some aluminum foil. About halfway through I re-basted the ham and removed the tin foil.
With about 10 minutes left I melted some butter, added a half cup of packed Brown Sugar and some Pineapple juice that made for a wonderful simple syrup-type concoction. Great to pour over the ham slices once served. I also grilled some whole pineapple rings.
Once the ham came out of the oven to rest for a bit, I mashed up a big batch of potatoes with butter and some milk and they were nice and creamy and oh so smooth. We decided on corn for the vegetable.
It was delicious!
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