Nice idea for two meals from Gammon joint for all you thrifty shoppers out there

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I think gammon joints are pretty reasonable myself. So boil it or roast it on the Sunday, and serve with mashed potatoes and veg. Do a mustard and chive sauce as well. And make double the amount.

On the monday or later in the week, chop up the rest of the gammon, and cook some pasta. Then in a nice shallow oven dish mix cooked drained pasta with gammon and some grated cheese. I like Gruyere, but cheddar would be fine. I also mixed a little bit of creme freiche with dijon mustard in to the pasta. Then pour left over mustard and chive sauce on top. Bit of grated cheese (parmesan, or cheddar) on top if you are feeling esp indulgent and put it in a medium oven for 20 -25 minutes to brown on top.

How to make mustard and chive sauce a la Overrun.

Roux sauce, so big knob of butter melted in a sauce pan and add a generous amount of dijon mustard. Then add a tbs of plain flour take off heat and stir in, keep adding flour until you get a thick sticky paste. Back on the heat. Then add your milk little by little stirring all the time, prob about a pint in all. This will thicken, then add lots of finely chopped chives at the end.

Well I thought it was a good idea anyway lol

Sounds great!!
Will add this to my list to try

Bless you Sonnet I just thought it was a nice combination of recipes and wanted to share

Yum, added to my list too.

Thanks.

three meals if you make stock while boiling the ham, you'll get the most delicious lentil soup out of that.

Good point Aitch I hadn't thought of that. I only spent £7 on the joint and still have enough left for tonight. I am just going to have it plain with some potatoes and some spring greens and garlic.

When I buy a gammon joint I fry a chopped onion in a casserole dish then add some maple syrup brown sugar cinnamon tomato puree and mustard powder fry for another minute then add some veg stock and couple of tins cannellini beans place this in oven for about 10 mins then add the gammon joint and place back in oven for about 50 mins removing lid for last 10.

Very tasty

That sounds really yummy caykon. I tend to prefer it boiled, with maybe an onion cut in half and studded with cloves, possibly in cider or as Nigella suggest coke. In which case she suggests finishing it off in the oven with a mustardy/molasses type glaze.

My dcs all love this, so we have it fairly frequently

I was going to say - only two meals?

we poach ours in stock and cider and usually make:
gammon with mash as you describe
a pasta dish (not as flash as yours)
risotto (with some of the stock)
soup (with the rest of the stock)
and sandwiches

tis one of our top buys

lol Mrs Badger we only usually manage to stetch it to 3 meals, but I suppose with stock that makes it 4. There are 5 of us, and my dh and the 3 boys all eat massive amounts. Of course I just have dainty lady like portions

a pretty traditional roman dish is boar and peas added to a basic carbonara egg and parmesan mix, so we do that. except with gammon, obv.

Sounds gorgeous AitchTwoOh, I have only had boar sausages before now, they were very tasty