sheilajoyce, we had ham for dinner last night, that was our Christmas with my family. I'm not a huge fan of ham (or bacon) anymore, I just seem to have completely lost my taste for it, so I never want leftovers of the stuff.

Elery put the last bits into the beans and greens that we had today, and the rest went home with my girls as leftovers. I've always saved the bone for soup and leftovers for scalloped potatoes. Now my girls can make their own scalloped potatoes, I sent au gratin potatoes home with them too, just add the ham and they're good to go!

Cabbage soup does sound good, though.....

Annie

I I always call the leftovers " hamalot". Do you ever cook it with potatoes and green beans? That is a local favorite.

I also make jambalaya with it this time of year. Of course, I call it hambalaya.

Ham freezes really well. Freeze some and in a month or two, you'll have a nice meal if the weather is nasty and you don't want to go to the store!

I also freeze ham that I don't want to use right away.

We're still enjoying our ham, will have omelets tonight. We also use it in fried rice, quiche, pancakes (think thin, blintzy pancakes rolled around a filling of ham and broccoli in cheese sauce), Challiapin spaghetti (a casserole of layers of cooked spaghetti, ham, mushrooms, sour cream and cheese), Eggs Benedict, just to name some of the ways that are a bit different. When we are really tired of ham it gets divided and frozen.

I call ham the gift that keeps on giving. Usually, like everyone else it seems, I would make split pea soup. Once I ventured off the beaten track and make leek and potato soup - delicious! I also make a vodka penne which is also dee-lish. And certainly freezes great too!

It has been a porky holiday. Omelets, a frittata, BLT's, in the collards, blk-eyed-peas....rack of pork BoxingDay...in my tamales. A nice tomato soup!...put some ham in the baby grilled cheese. Enough, lol.

All bits are frozen and just enough for some soups down the line.

Fortunately lots of seafood most meals.

Finally used the last of it yesterday in the greens and peas. I'd bought half a ham for Christmas but we had lots of other foods and even though I sent some home with family there was still enough to eat in some form all week. We took a day off from it and had a big salad one night with tuna. I've got two kinds of lettuce growing in the garden and it's just big enough to start using. (Winter is greens growing season in Florida.) Also some Chinese cabbage which I'd never tried growing before, it's growing bigger and faster than the lettuce, kale, collards and Swiss chard.

<sigh> I hear ya. Me too. I diced up the last of it and froze in small portions to use up here and there to make hash in the mornings, frittata, and with pasta and peas or asparagus. The bone is in the freezer too, because I couldn't bring myself to make soup with it quite yet. And I really enjoy ham... but that's one food that I just can't have too often. I think it's because it has such a strong flavor (and don't get me started on the salt), I feel limited on what I can do with it.

When you think you really have had enough, grind it up and make a ham salad sandwich spread.
Or grind it up and add an equal amount of ground beef, an egg or 2 and some bread crumbs and make into hamballs....bake them at 350 for about 2 1/2 hours, basting every1 5 minutes with a mix of vinegar and brown sugar....and maybe a little pineapple juice too!

Lars, Freezing is what I do with both ham and turkey. I use my vacuum sealer and it is good months later. We never eat more than one day of leftovers.

I'm usually tired of ham after dinner and one toasted ham sandwich. Had the ham dinner last night with potato gratin, baked squash and fresh green beans.

This morning I sliced some of the ham and warmed it up in the steam oven, using just the steam setting and the meat came out like it had just been baked.

I have lots left, so I will probably warm more up in the steam oven for a meal, and make some ham salad spread like Linda mention. Moe likes it mixed with mayo and some relish.

A pot of bean soup or maybe just a pot of beans with the ham bone. And maybe a ham crepe that I haven't made in a few years.

I skipped it entirely this year. We normally buy a 1/2 of a Honeybaked for our Open House party. But I'm left with way too much, even if I do give some away. This year I bought a HoneyBaked Turkey (and some sliced turkey breast) and boy was that a hit! More and more of our friends don't want all that sodium and even though they say it's gluten free, my stomach still reacts to their glaze. DH likes the lentil or pea soup made from the bone, but can do without the ham entirely. I'm ok for a piece of ham as a breakfast meat, in fact, I buy a packaged slice of Wellshire Farms Turkey ham at Whole Foods to have on hand. That works for us.

Great suggestions!

The (almost) very last of the Christmas ham , the ham bone, went into a pot of pinto beans today. The ham hide and some scraps went into black-eyed peas over New Years. I do have a couple of qts. of ham 'broth' (from simmering the ham pre-bake) left in the freezer. Those will go into future pots of beans along w/ bacon ends & pieces.