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Let The Recipes Begin!
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mrlynn wrote:
Interesting approach to supermarket ham, Eustace; we just baked a budget spiral-cut ham from Stop and Shop, and if you bake it long enough and slowly enough, it's not too bad.

But next maybe we'll try the apple juice. I will avoid anything that looks or smells like a clove, of course. I do like mustard on ham (and apples with it); any old mustard will do; we've got Grey Poupon in the 'fridge.

I think my aversion to cloves stems from young adventures in the dentist's chair. In those days clove oil was used as a pain killer. I expect it worked by numbing the nerves with its nasty emanations.

Now if you want real ham, head down to southern Virginia or North Carolina and have a slice of genuine country ham, the kind that comes in a tight cloth sack, along with biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Most northerners find it way too salty; like bitter beer, it's an acquired taste.

/Mr Lynn

I like what you said, and it bears some thinking.
Now about cloves... I too have a certain aversion to cloves. It comes up every time that I'm around some dimwit poseur who lights up a clove cigarette. I've had to put up with four decades of this.
Every spice has its time, and its place.
My aversion to cinnamon is due to its ubiquity; it's as if a conspiracy was formed a while back that concluded that this particular recipe needs some spice, and let's just use cinnamon. Everybody else uses cinnamon. And cinnamon is cheap.

Now let's get back to Ham. I ignored the presence of some really superb Southern hams, because I was on a delightful rant, and I felt that this particular subject should be dealt with elsewhere.
This is elsewhere.
Two years back, I was invited to a Thanksgiving dinner catered by Safeway. It was a sad occasion; the food could have only made it worse. But it didn't. There was a noname-brand Southern smoke-cured ham in the center, surrounded by the usual forgettable Safeway sides.
It was a really good ham, and so it was obviously a mistake.

Eustace
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Let The Recipes Begin! - by eustacetilley - 11-17-2013, 07:41 PM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by archipirata - 11-17-2013, 08:35 PM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by steve... - 11-17-2013, 08:50 PM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by Dennis S - 11-17-2013, 08:53 PM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by voodoopenguin - 11-17-2013, 08:54 PM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by eustacetilley - 11-17-2013, 09:01 PM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by mrlynn - 11-17-2013, 09:13 PM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by sekker - 11-17-2013, 09:40 PM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by August West - 11-17-2013, 09:50 PM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by rich in distress - 11-17-2013, 10:21 PM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by Tommie Milwaukee - 11-18-2013, 01:21 AM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by dmann - 11-18-2013, 01:48 AM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by mrlynn - 11-18-2013, 02:18 AM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by eustacetilley - 11-18-2013, 04:03 AM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by mrlynn - 11-18-2013, 04:21 AM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by eustacetilley - 11-18-2013, 04:31 AM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by mrbigstuff - 11-18-2013, 04:56 AM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by eustacetilley - 11-18-2013, 05:18 AM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by eustacetilley - 11-18-2013, 05:22 AM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by eustacetilley - 11-18-2013, 05:41 AM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by Ombligo - 11-18-2013, 10:27 AM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by CJsNvrUrly - 11-18-2013, 11:10 AM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by mrlynn - 11-18-2013, 12:14 PM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by eustacetilley - 11-18-2013, 01:03 PM
Re: Let The Recipes Begin! - by eustacetilley - 11-18-2013, 01:40 PM
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