Thank you so very much....I will save these sites. You posters are definitely "keepers" in my book. I never had a slow cooker....I bought a 4 quart Hamilton...I checked the reviews on Amazon and it received great reviews. so I thought I had to try it. I have a pressure cooker that I love and like to try new things. I love to cook for my hubby....thanks again I appreciate your input..

Teresa - suggestion: Why not try out your new cooker while hot weather is here? That way you can judge precisely how much heat comes from your cooker. I made the peach cake on a very hot and humid day here in Maine, and could not feel any added heat from my cooker. Good luck, and enjoy your new appliance.

I have been guilty of the same thing I love pixel of ink. Plus I also have a ton of ebooks in epub format too. I have no idea how I will read them all. So many great free books I don't know why I would need to buy any.

shaun said, "You aren't cooking the ham, you're just heating it up." But I wasn't planning to buy an already-cooked ham -- I would like info on cooking a ham. Do you think it best to only heat a cooked ham in a slow cooker, rather than cooking an uncooked one? Though my friend's Coke idea really threw me, I was thinking perhaps it was somewhat similar to the pineapple juice in your recipe, for keeping the ham moist? I'm a bit confused. Tracey -- I'm almost speechless at the thought of boiling a ham in a 2-Liter bottle of Coke! LOL I can't quite wrap my mind around that; I was already having a hard time envisioning pouring 'only' a can of Coke over the ham. Also, the recipe calls for onion on the ham. Now, I love to use onion to flavor ribs or fresh pork (as a roast, or for pulled pork BBQ sandwiches) in the slow cooker, but somehow 'cured ham' and 'onion' don't seem to go together in my mind. My friend's suggestion of brown sugar does sound more appropriate to me than onion. Nigella Lawson cooks her ham in the oven, which I don't think I'll be able to do. But one thing is certain: You have really livened up my evening! The day had been rather humdrum 'til I read your post and then read that recipe. :-)