Ham bone recipies

[Tandyc]

What are you all using your left over Easter ham bone for? I would love any and all recipes that are tried and true.

Thanks

Tandyc

 

[bookgirl]

We're pretty boring. I'll just put it and dried beans (that have been pre soaked for at least 6 hours) in a pot with water till it covers beans by at least 2 inches and seasonings (salt, pepper, a sprinkle of garlic powder and onions if you like onions). Cook a long time then eat over cornbread. I'll freeze the leftovers for future sidedishes.

 

[tinkmom2]

My two standards are scalloped potatoes with ham and split pea soup with the ham hock. The split pea soup I basically follow the directions on the package lol

I use the same cheese recipe for my Mac and Cheese.

1/2 brick velvetta cubed
1 cup cheddar cheese
1/2 cup milk
2TBSPS flour
2 TBSPs butter
salt and pepper to taste
squirt of mustard
5 potatoes cut into slices and par boiled for about 10 minutes
left over ham diced. (1 cup or as much as you like)

Set oven to 350 and in a pot boil potato slices for 10 minutes. Drain and set aside.
In a sauce pan melt the butter and mix the flour in with a wisk. Mix till light brown and add milk. Warm milk and start adding the Velvetta and cheese. Keep mixing with the wisk until almost boiling. Remove from heat. Add squirt of mustard and stir.
Add some of the cheese mixture to a sprayed caserole dish. Layer with some of the potato slices add ham. Repeat. Bake at 350 until potato slices are fork tender and are browned slightly on top approx 30-40 minutes.

 

[Ericandjenng]

We're pretty boring. I'll just put it and dried beans (that have been pre soaked for at least 6 hours) in a pot with water till it covers beans by at least 2 inches and seasonings (salt, pepper, a sprinkle of garlic powder and onions if you like onions). Cook a long time then eat over cornbread. I'll freeze the leftovers for future sidedishes.

I do something similar. But I do freeze the bone until I am actually ready to have beans--or rather Red Bean Soup--similar to the Jamaican Red Bean Soup served on Carnival Cruise Lines.

Soak 1 bag of small red beans (not kidney beans) in water overnight. Rinse and cover by a couple of inches with water in dutch oven. Add ham bone--you don't have to thaw it. Also seasonings--salt, minced onion, basil, garlic, & cayenne pepper. Bring to boil then simmer until beans are tender.

Pull any ham left on bone off and discard bone. Dice 2 potatoes and 2 carrots. Add to beans with 1 can of tomato sauce. Return to heat and simmer or low boil until carrots & potatoes are done.

 

[bookgirl]

I do something similar. But I do freeze the bone until I am actually ready to have beans--or rather Red Bean Soup--similar to the Jamaican Red Bean Soup served on Carnival Cruise Lines.

Soak 1 bag of small red beans (not kidney beans) in water overnight. Rinse and cover by a couple of inches with water in dutch oven. Add ham bone--you don't have to thaw it. Also seasonings--salt, minced onion, basil, garlic, & cayenne pepper. Bring to boil then simmer until beans are tender.

Pull any ham left on bone off and discard bone. Dice 2 potatoes and 2 carrots. Add to beans with 1 can of tomato sauce. Return to heat and simmer or low boil until carrots & potatoes are done.

I froze my bone as well along with the last of the cut ham as we are now tired of ham. Beans will probably be done on a rainy weekend sometime this spring. Something nice about a cold wet night and warm beans and ham over cornbread.

 

[debbiecarr98]

I make this and it is very good.


Ingredients:
3 cups dried black beans
1 ham bone or large ham hock
3 quarts water
2 ounces salt pork, diced or 2 to 3 slices diced bacon
1 large clove garlic, minced
1 bay leaf
1/8 teaspoon ground thyme
2 cups chopped onion
1 medium carrot, diced
salt and pepper
sherry
lemon slices
hard cooked egg, sliced
Preparation:
Soak black beans and ham bone in 3 quarts of water overnight in the refrigerator. Transfer beans and liquid to large kettle of Dutch oven. Add salt pork or bacon, garlic, bay leaf and thyme. Bring black beans to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 2 hours. Add chopped onions and diced carrot; simmer 1 hour longer. Remove and discard bay leaf and ham bone. In small batches, process or blend black bean soup mixture until smooth. Return to pot; heat. Add salt and pepper and a little sherry to taste. Serve black bean soup garnished with lemon and egg slices.
Makes 2 quarts of black bean soup.

 

[annsteere]

This year I'm trying Jenn's red bean soup.

Gonna pull that ham bone from the freezer and make soup next Tuesday night.

 

[sallysue66]

mine actually gets double duty. first it goes into a big pot of dried lima's. my recipe is pretty much like bookgirl's but i add a chicken bouillion cube. then those leftovers go into the freezer and it makes a great base for the first pot of veggie soup in the fall.