REC - Honey Glazed Ham

In article <[email hidden]>,

Damsel in dis Dress said:

1 teaspoon ground cloves
---Ham---
6 pounds cooked ham, bone-in -- OR...
4 pounds cooked ham, boneless

Take this how you want. Just a suggestion.

In the beginning there was ham. It came in a can. How else would it
come? Open it up and put it in the pan. Open up a little can of
pineapple rings and put them on top. Open the jar of red maraschino
cherries and put one in each ring. We like cloves, so some whole cloves
go in also. This is good.

Some years later we discover that some ham doesn't come in a can, but
wrapped in plastic. It doesn't have that horrible jelly goop. It
doesn't have as much fat. It has less water. It tastes better. We
never ever buy ham in the can again.

Some years later we discover that some ham isn't even already cooked.
You cook it yourself. I'm reading the supermarket special ads, the
newspaper ads, and the newspaper articles. What a concept! I'm not
sure about this, but I keep reading. It looks pretty attractive. When
it is holiday season, this is a loss leader. It is way cheap. We go
and take a look. It doesn't look good. There is major waste. Major
bone. Major fat. Major skin. A lot of this is going in the trash.
Still, it is so much cheaper that it still makes sense. We buy one. We
cook it. We don't do anything special. A few cloves is it. It is so
much better. This is the way to go.

We still buy the precooked stuff. If you are making breakfast, or
scalloped potatoes, or something else, it makes sense. If you are
devoting the day to food, think about cooking one from scratch.

--
Dan Abel
[email hidden]
Petaluma, California, USA

Dan Abel said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Damsel in dis Dress said:

1 teaspoon ground cloves
---Ham---
6 pounds cooked ham, bone-in -- OR...
4 pounds cooked ham, boneless

Take this how you want. Just a suggestion.

In the beginning there was ham. It came in a can. How else would it
come? Open it up and put it in the pan. Open up a little can of
pineapple rings and put them on top. Open the jar of red maraschino
cherries and put one in each ring. We like cloves, so some whole cloves
go in also. This is good.

Some years later we discover that some ham doesn't come in a can, but
wrapped in plastic. It doesn't have that horrible jelly goop. It
doesn't have as much fat. It has less water. It tastes better. We
never ever buy ham in the can again.

Some years later we discover that some ham isn't even already cooked.
You cook it yourself. I'm reading the supermarket special ads, the
newspaper ads, and the newspaper articles. What a concept! I'm not
sure about this, but I keep reading. It looks pretty attractive. When
it is holiday season, this is a loss leader. It is way cheap. We go
and take a look. It doesn't look good. There is major waste. Major
bone. Major fat. Major skin. A lot of this is going in the trash.
Still, it is so much cheaper that it still makes sense. We buy one. We
cook it. We don't do anything special. A few cloves is it. It is so
much better. This is the way to go.

We still buy the precooked stuff. If you are making breakfast, or
scalloped potatoes, or something else, it makes sense. If you are
devoting the day to food, think about cooking one from scratch.

I doesn't writes 'em, I just passes 'em along. At least I didn't
write this one. <G> Very good observations, however.

Carol
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http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/head_trollop/my_photos

"Dan Abel" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

In the beginning there was ham. It came in a can. How else would it
come? Open it up and put it in the pan. Open up a little can of
pineapple rings and put them on top. Open the jar of red maraschino
cherries and put one in each ring. We like cloves, so some whole cloves
go in also. This is good.

Some years later we discover that some ham doesn't come in a can, but
wrapped in plastic.

Okay, I've read enough. First you say, take it out of the can
and dress it all up and there you go. THEN you mention the
plastic bag. Without the can.

Well, buster, I'm here to tell you, sometimes the ham comes
in a plastic bag IN the can.

Y'all fooled me once, I'm not going to let others be fooled the
way I was.

nancy

Nancy Young said:

"Dan Abel" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

In the beginning there was ham. It came in a can. How else would it
come? Open it up and put it in the pan. Open up a little can of
pineapple rings and put them on top. Open the jar of red maraschino
cherries and put one in each ring. We like cloves, so some whole cloves
go in also. This is good.

Some years later we discover that some ham doesn't come in a can, but
wrapped in plastic.

Okay, I've read enough. First you say, take it out of the can
and dress it all up and there you go. THEN you mention the
plastic bag. Without the can.

Well, buster, I'm here to tell you, sometimes the ham comes
in a plastic bag IN the can.

Y'all fooled me once, I'm not going to let others be fooled the
way I was.

ROFLMAO! I would have loved to see that laminated ham you made,
Nancy.

Carol, chuckling
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"Damsel in dis Dress" <[email hidden]> wrote

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On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:27:46 -0500, "Nancy Young"
<[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Okay, I've read enough. First you say, take it out of the can
and dress it all up and there you go. THEN you mention the
plastic bag. Without the can.

Well, buster, I'm here to tell you, sometimes the ham comes
in a plastic bag IN the can.

Y'all fooled me once, I'm not going to let others be fooled the
way I was.

ROFLMAO! I would have loved to see that laminated ham you made,
Nancy.

(smile) You mean you would have loved to see the look on my face
when I saw that shrunken ham in that shriveled glazed bag.

nancy

Nancy Young said:

"Damsel in dis Dress" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:27:46 -0500, "Nancy Young"
<[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Okay, I've read enough. First you say, take it out of the can
and dress it all up and there you go. THEN you mention the
plastic bag. Without the can.

Well, buster, I'm here to tell you, sometimes the ham comes
in a plastic bag IN the can.

Y'all fooled me once, I'm not going to let others be fooled the
way I was.

ROFLMAO! I would have loved to see that laminated ham you made,
Nancy.

(smile) You mean you would have loved to see the look on my face
when I saw that shrunken ham in that shriveled glazed bag.

OMG! I forgot that you glazed it!

Carol, with tears streaming down her face
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In article <[email hidden]>,

Nancy Young said:

"Dan Abel" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Some years later we discover that some ham doesn't come in a can, but
wrapped in plastic.

Okay, I've read enough. First you say, take it out of the can
and dress it all up and there you go. THEN you mention the
plastic bag. Without the can.

Well, buster, I'm here to tell you, sometimes the ham comes
in a plastic bag IN the can.

Y'all fooled me once, I'm not going to let others be fooled the
way I was.

Total disbelief here. Total. I know you won't lie to me. Why on earth
would they do this to you?

Reminds me of the story about the turkey. There's the stuff you don't
eat, that you are supposed to throw away. I don't know why they don't
throw it away for you. Well, actually I do. They charge by the pound.
You have to pay for the stuff that you throw away. It comes wrapped in
plastic. I hear the story about the people who don't realize that they
have to throw it away, and cook the turkey, with the plastic bag inside.
It isn't pretty.

--
Dan Abel
[email hidden]
Petaluma, California, USA

"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

"Dan Abel" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

In the beginning there was ham. It came in a can. How else would it
come? Open it up and put it in the pan. Open up a little can of
pineapple rings and put them on top. Open the jar of red maraschino
cherries and put one in each ring. We like cloves, so some whole cloves
go in also. This is good.

Some years later we discover that some ham doesn't come in a can, but
wrapped in plastic.

Okay, I've read enough. First you say, take it out of the can
and dress it all up and there you go. THEN you mention the
plastic bag. Without the can.

Well, buster, I'm here to tell you, sometimes the ham comes
in a plastic bag IN the can.

Y'all fooled me once, I'm not going to let others be fooled the
way I was.

nancy

Oh my God, you didn't! ROFL, sorry, Nancy, I had to laugh at that. That's
hysterical.

kili

"Dan Abel" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Well, buster, I'm here to tell you, sometimes the ham comes
in a plastic bag IN the can.

Quoted message said:

Total disbelief here. Total. I know you won't lie to me. Why on earth
would they do this to you?

I thought it was a horrid prank. Put an invisible force field around
the ham and wait for the laughs.

That's what I get for deciding I was going to make a ham; as you say,
I thought they came in cans, and this was the best part of all: that
key. I was all over that key action that opened the can.

To this day I bring the spiral-sliced honey baked type of ham to
my mother's or I will be treated to the canned ham again.

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plastic. I hear the story about the people who don't realize that they
have to throw it away, and cook the turkey, with the plastic bag inside.
It isn't pretty.

Because they hide it in a frozen carcass. Poor people are victims of an
elaborate industry-wide hoax.

(smile) nancy

Dan Abel said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Nancy Young said:

"Dan Abel" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Some years later we discover that some ham doesn't come in a can, but
wrapped in plastic.

Okay, I've read enough. First you say, take it out of the can
and dress it all up and there you go. THEN you mention the
plastic bag. Without the can.

Well, buster, I'm here to tell you, sometimes the ham comes
in a plastic bag IN the can.

Y'all fooled me once, I'm not going to let others be fooled the
way I was.

Total disbelief here. Total. I know you won't lie to me. Why on earth
would they do this to you?

Reminds me of the story about the turkey. There's the stuff you don't
eat, that you are supposed to throw away. I don't know why they don't
throw it away for you. Well, actually I do. They charge by the pound.
You have to pay for the stuff that you throw away. It comes wrapped in
plastic. I hear the story about the people who don't realize that they
have to throw it away, and cook the turkey, with the plastic bag inside.
It isn't pretty.

I was 18 or 19 the first time I roasted a chicken. I had it in the oven with
stuffing and everything. I was very proud of myself. My mom asked me if I had
taken out the bag of guts. I told her there was no bag, she insisted there
was, I said there wasn't.

She made me take the chicken out of the oven and unstuff the whole thing to
get the bag out except the bag wasn't there and I knew that because I already
looked and I already told her! grumble grumble.

love her dearly...glad I don't live at home anymore...

--
..:Heather:.
www.velvet-c.com

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:33:17 GMT, The Bubbo <[email hidden]>

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I was 18 or 19 the first time I roasted a chicken. I had it in the oven with
stuffing and everything. I was very proud of myself. My mom asked me if I had
taken out the bag of guts. I told her there was no bag, she insisted there
was, I said there wasn't.

She made me take the chicken out of the oven and unstuff the whole thing to
get the bag out except the bag wasn't there and I knew that because I already
looked and I already told her! grumble grumble.

love her dearly...glad I don't live at home anymore...

The first time I roasted a turkey, I called my mom, all freaked out.
"There are four drumsticks on this thing!" Turns out that the two
smaller ones were part of the wings. And I left the bag of goodies in
that bird, too. I've improved in the thirty years since then.

Carol
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Damsel in dis Dress said:

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:33:17 GMT, The Bubbo <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I was 18 or 19 the first time I roasted a chicken. I had it in the oven

with

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

stuffing and everything. I was very proud of myself. My mom asked me if I

had

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

taken out the bag of guts. I told her there was no bag, she insisted there
was, I said there wasn't.

She made me take the chicken out of the oven and unstuff the whole thing to
get the bag out except the bag wasn't there and I knew that because I

already

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

looked and I already told her! grumble grumble.

love her dearly...glad I don't live at home anymore...

The first time I roasted a turkey, I called my mom, all freaked out.
"There are four drumsticks on this thing!" Turns out that the two
smaller ones were part of the wings. And I left the bag of goodies in
that bird, too. I've improved in the thirty years since then.

Carol

funny thing about my mom and sister is that they always assumed I couldn't
cook, it became some sort of running joke with them that I just ignored. I
didn't really cook when I lived at home, that's probably where they got the
idea I guess. I moved into my own place when I was 20 and started cooking and
loved it. It took my mom years to realize that I knew what I was doing.

Of course this is the same person who chided me a few years ago for chafing
against the curfew I had in college...I never had a curfew in college. My
parents didn't mind how late I was out as long as I called if I'd be out all
night or if I needed a ride. So weird...she's so very weird.

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