Roast gammon dinner.., should I do stuffing?

[lipstickwoman]

I've never had gammon as a roast dinner but it's a request from a visitor.

I assume it's just a normal roast but with gammon?! Do you have yorkshires? Stuffing? What do you make gravy with (meat juices being my usual thing)

Please give me your favourite sides

Delicious 😋

Leek sauce is nice with gammon.

I'd also use instant gravy (Bisto Best). Not sorry.

Sides wise, it would depend on how many people and what I could be arsed with.

Definitely cauliflower cheese and roast potatoes. Probably green beans and/or carrots. Maybe broccoli or cabbage.

I wouldn't go all out with fanciness as this guest sounds a bit fussy so likely to turn his nose up at anything garnished or 'unusual'. Just a fairly narrow range of food cooked simply but well.

I quite often do gammon with a roast dinner but I tend to serve it alongside chicken or turkey as well. We would serve stuffing, roasties, yorkshires, gravy with it plus a few different veg (carrots, cabbage, peas being the normal choices). Gravy would be made from the chicken/turkey juices. I'd have mustard available on the table as well as cranberry for the chicken/turkey.

They tend to have gammon at Carveries, served with normal accompaniments for roasts.

I'm Irish, bacon and cabbage is a staple in my house. But I now part boil the bacon/gammon and then roast it. I serve with parsley sauce.

But at Christmas I have Turkey and Ham aka bacon/ gammon and gladly eat that with gravy.

Stuffing is always a good option as far as I'm concerned!

I've had gravy and a full gammon roast. Don't tend to use the meat juices as much as it can be a bit salty and tend to roast it after being in slow cooker with honey. It's really tasty

Fantastic, what time shall I come round for? 😋

With gammon I do parsley sauce (fresh, home made) and serve with broad beans. Roast potatoes, or steamed baby ones.

Knorr do a ham stock cube which goes well with gammon. My Mum always served up a bit of pineapple which was roasted and a bit caramelised I guess...not too much on the veg front from her, nice roasties and carrots and something green, must admit loved it but always felt short-changed by the smaller dinner at the time. Broccoli cheese is nicer than cauliflower imho, that would work

Mashed swede

No stuffing

I’m sure you’ve got your own tried and tested way of cooking gammon but, if not, try Delia’s roast crusted gammon from her cookery course. Always works for me.

For Easter, I’d serve with roast potatoes or jersey royals depending on taste, glazed oven baked carrots and parsnips, spring or red cabbage, cauliflower, Yorkshire pudding, apple and herb stuffing, and beef gravy (not bloody Bisto though - Goldenfry is cheaper and much nicer!). English mustard and apple sauce to taste.

I’m hungry now!