What can I cook with Gammon?

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I’m hosting a late Christmas get together and have promised my guests a joint of gammon… the only problem is I’m not sure to do alongside it.

I’m planning on a Sunday dinner style meal but have somehow gotten through life without ever eating gammon, except in a pub with pineapple. Do any of you lovely people have any ideas of what side dishes will go nicely?

Merry Christmas!

Proper chips and fried eggs

If serving hot thend I always do mashed potatoes, cabbage and onion sauce. Sooooo much onion sauce! Cold is usually salad, nice chutney and baked potatoes. Small leftovers go into a fricasee with chicken or turkey, get stirred into a pasta dish, get mixed with rice (fried or as a rice salad, or go into the soup I make with the gammon stock. I simmer mine with onion, carrot, celery, several cloves of garlic and a few bay leaves. It makes a very tasty lentil soup (literally just add orange lentils and cook until they are all mushy - it doesn't take long) or can form the base for a vegetable soup.

We are having ham today with sprouts, cauliflower, roast potatoes. Yorkshire puddings and cabbage.

I'd have like parsnips too but we ate them all yesterday.

Gammon mash and parsley sauce with veggies. Homemade parsley sauce with flour and butter same quantities mixed and then heated, after two minutes add milk slowly and whisk like mad! We do half a pint of milk but we like lots of sauce! Then if more liquid needed add water from veggies. Add fresh parsley snipped up and salt to taste. I always add a bit of dried parsley to increase the taste if not enough fresh.
A Christmas tradition for Christmas Eve here and I still made it even though feeling bad with Covid!

Always cauliflower cheese, glad others feel the same. I also like sweetcorn and roast potatoes.

Those Boulanger potatoes sound good and are in the oven, thanks for the tip!

I did ours in coke tonight (a la Nigella) and served with roast potatoes (was going to do a potato and swede gratin but couldn't be bothered!) and slow braised red cabbage. Leftovers will be used in Nigella's ham, pea and cream pasta, with egg and chips and in sandwiches...

Gammon à la Shirley Valentine.

With chips and egg.

Scalloped potatoes and creamed corn are the norm here. 😛

Baguettes, cheese and chutney.

Thanks everyone, some really great ideas here!