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Ham mountain - suggestions needed

26 replies

30andLurking · 05/01/2010 16:46

Help! We roasted a giant ham for New Year's Eve (jamie oliver jerk style, delicious!), and we're STILL eating it. How much longer do you reckon it can stay in the fridge (it's been smothered in chilli, then roasted for hours...) and does anyone have any good recipes to use it up - I can't take any more sandwiches?!?

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flossie64 · 05/01/2010 16:56

How about ham ,leek and mushroom pie or pizza topping or quiche.

silverwoodhelpdesk · 05/01/2010 17:37

You could roast a chicken or small turkey (cheap now if you can get them) and then make a fully enclosed cold turkey & ham pie. Pastry line a 9/10inch cake pan, layer sliced cold meat (adding cranberries or stuffing if you wish) then put a pastry lid on, leaving a 1cm hole in the middle of the top. After cooking for about 40 minutes in the oven at Gas 5/6 ,to cook the pastry, take out and poor in liquid stock made from the carcase and gellatine. This should keep for a while. I did one with some leftover venison and ham and it is delicious.

Alternatively, mix minced/chopped ham with red leicester cheese and horseradish sauce and pop under the grill on toast. A nice savoury snack with a bit of a kick.

moondog · 05/01/2010 17:48

In salads in chunks.
Ditto in a bean and tomato stew
Shredded, in stir fries.
In Spanish omeletter affair.

I can't ever imagine feeling i had too much ha meself..

FabIsGoingToBeFabIn2010 · 05/01/2010 17:52

I have just made ham and cheese muffins and they are yummy.

RockBird · 05/01/2010 18:00

Can you get together with 'what to do with 3kg of sprouts'?

SnowMuchToBits · 05/01/2010 18:02

I made a very yummy ham risotto last night - using ham, onions, mushrooms, risotto rice, chicken stock and sage.

30andLurking · 05/01/2010 18:24

ooh spicy beany stew, good idea! can't face anything more cheese and pastry-based if I can avoid it!
not helped by the fact i live in the back of beyond and it's snowing, so people are practically rioting for vegetables!

Ham & cheese muffins... presume you mean toasted English muffins? for a wierd moment i pictured sweet, american ones with bits of pork in!

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30andLurking · 05/01/2010 18:25

but no-one thinks we're going to die still eating it 5, 6, 7... days on??

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moondog · 05/01/2010 18:26

Good god, of course not.

SnowMuchToBits · 05/01/2010 18:27

Noooo.... we finished ours in the risotto last night, and had had it since 23rd December (refrigerated) but it was still fine. And we are all still alive and well!

blametheparents · 05/01/2010 18:33

Which Jamie book was the reipe in? Sounds lovely.
Did Nigella's ham in coke for Xmas, was yummy.

30andLurking · 05/01/2010 18:56

It was the one he did on his slightly nauseating Christmas special, here www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pork-recipes/jamie-s-jerk-ham

highly recommended!

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itsmeolord · 05/01/2010 18:57

Ham and lentil soup?

FabIsGoingToBeFabIn2010 · 05/01/2010 19:33

Nope, muffins like cakes. They are delicious. Nothing wrong with savoury muffins, great for breakfast and lunch.

30andLurking · 05/01/2010 19:59

Recipe please Fab, am going to have to try this out! (if it works suspect I might be about to make my DH happier than if Kiera Knightley hopped into bed with him covered in gravy.. ham and cheese, in muffin form... gooood)

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FabIsGoingToBeFabIn2010 · 05/01/2010 20:32

Will tmw do? I am off to bed. Am shattered.

it's basically

plain flour
baking powder
ham
cheese
eggs
thyme and
milk all mixed together .

30andLurking · 05/01/2010 20:40

god yes, this ham's going to be around for DAYS!

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pollywollydoodle · 05/01/2010 20:59

if it is nice ham, maybe sit outside waitrose tomorrow and sell it....panic buying means there's there's NO FOOD you know

southeastastra · 05/01/2010 21:01

hmm give it to me!

silverwoodhelpdesk · 05/01/2010 21:04

Don't worry about the ham going off. My Great Grandfather set off for Canada by ship 140 years ago with a £5 note and a whole ham. He took slices off the ham, daily, in such a way that he could use the ham as a pillow on board ship, and it lasted him for the voyage, and for weeks afterwards!

30andLurking · 05/01/2010 21:07

ha ha! alternative uses along the ham-as-pillow line also welcome! (although this one is a bit sticky...)

and no waitrose here... I miss Waitrose Canary Wharf more than some of my friends...

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EightiesChick · 05/01/2010 21:15

It would probably go nicely in a soup I often make. Tomato, pasta and flageolet bean soup from an Anthony Worral Thomson book - found it online so have pasted below:

Tomato, Pasta and Flageolet Bean Soup
The flageolet is the prince of beans, picked when young and tender. Combined with pasta and wholegrain bread, the GI of this soup is extremely low.

Serves 4

10g unsalted butter
1 onion, finely diced
2 garlic cloves, finely diced
Large pinch of dried chilli flakes
400g tin of chopped tomatoes with basil
1 litre vegetable stock
75g small pasta shapes [normal size are also fine]
1 sachet bouquet garni [don't bother myself]
375g tin of flageolet beans (tinned in water), drained and rinsed - IMO haricot beans or tbh any white beans are also fine
Ground black pepper
2tbsp pesto (optional)

"Melt the butter in a saucepan, then fry the onion, garlic and chilli flakes until soft but still colourless, adding a dash of water if necessary to prevent sticking. (I'd chop up ham and put it in at this point)

Add the tomatoes, stock, pasta and bouquet garni, and simmer for 15 minutes. Stir in the beans, bring back to a simmer and season to taste with black pepper. Add extra stock to thin as necessary. Serve in warm soup bowls, with a little pesto, if wished, and some hot crusty wholegrain bread."

It's a chunky soup, leaning towards being a stew really, so good for this kind of weather. While it's normally meat free, some nice ham or similar would go well in it I think.

Drayford · 05/01/2010 21:24

Risotto! Uses up all the leftovers in our house......

SnowMuchToBits · 05/01/2010 21:26

I said risotto earlier Drayford - had one last night (with left-over ham) and it was delicious!

FabIsGoingToBeFabIn2010 · 06/01/2010 08:40

Ham and Cheese muffins

I followed a recipe for cheese and onion but it turned out fine.

Heat oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
Grease or line a 12 hole muffin tin.

Combine 300g/10oz plain flour, 1tbsp baking powder & salt and sift in to a bowl. (I don't use salt and don't sift.)

In a different bowl combine 2 beaten eggs, 225ml/8fl oz milk, 1tsp thyme, and 4tbsp olive oil. Add some black pepper. Stir in 75g grated cheese then pour into the dry ingredients and mix together until just combined.

Spoon the mixture into the muffin tin and sprinkle with 25g grated cheese if you want them extra cheesy.

Bake for about 20 minutes until risen and golden. Leave to cool in the pan for a minute then transfer to a wire rack to cool.

Enjoy!