What do I do with a ham bone?

[aka-mad4themouse]

My mother makes ham bot boi. It's kind of a stew using the leftover ham bone to flavor the stock, lots of vegetables (she usually throws in the leftover string beans) and the best part is the awesome bot boi noodles floating in it. I wish that I had a recipe but it is one of those mother-to-daughter dishes that gets handed down by spending time together in the kitchen. You know, the kind that says "add enough flour until it feels right".

 

[tikilyn]

I fill a big pot with hot water and salt. After water is boiling I add dry beans. I let them cook for a couple hours then add ham bone and ham hocks and sometimes sasuage. One hour before the beans are done I add cornstach. This helps with thicking (mom says it take the gas out of beans). When beans are done cook rice in separate pot.

Mine is really plain but once you add the meat it gives the beans flavor (i like).

HTHs

 

[meandtheguys2]

What are bot boi noodles, please. got it. They look like square egg noodles.

 

[the Fidge]

Give it to the dog!

Yeah! My dogs go over the moon for theirs and don't try to get near it! Love at first bite for them!

I second it go ahead and put a smile on a dog's face!

 

[aka-mad4themouse]

Mom's bot boi noodles are homemade and a lot thicker than the noodles you might find in the store. They're almost like dumplings.

Awww...now I'm homesick. I gotta call my mom.

 

[MiniGirl]

Go to allrecipes.com. Lots of good recipes there along with reviews. Split Pea Soup, white beans, lima beans, beans and rice (Puerto Rican or Cuban, not cajun). The recipes may not say "ham bone," but throw it in there anyway. Yum!!!

 

[meandtheguys2]

Awww...those sound yummy...

I can't make a decent egg noodle. They just aren't the same as my grandma's.

 

[wdwpjs]

red beans and rice is a favorite in this house!

 

[Flying Home]

Well, what I do is make beans and ham. I throw the bone in a slow cooker, wash a package of large lima beans, throw those in fill the cooker with water covering the beans and bone, and put in 5 pieces of all spice. Let it cook about 6 hours or so, check it about 5 hours and see if the beans are soft, then take it from there. You could add more water if need be.

This sounds easy and very good. Thanks

 

[hsmamato2]

uh uh- the dogs have been gnawing ours for a while....I'll have to go find them and take it away...they should get ticked with me...
anyway- we had, a bag of dry white beans,and a bag of dry red beans, put in pot w/water,brought to a boil,let it set for a while,then put in crockpot the beans,a handful of red lentils,about 1/2 a ch. onion, the ham bone, a bag of frozen corn, about 3T my homemade green sofrito(sort of green pepper type stuff),thyme,garlic powder,salt and pepper,plus about 1/2 container of chicken stock- before serving, remove bone,and chop/add any bits of usable ham......
cooked all day,it made a GREAT dinner!

 

[vsimeone]

Ok... Here's my really fancy bean soup recipe For some reason people RAVE about it and it is SO easy that I just laugh!

In your crock pot, put your ham bone, a chopped up onion, a bag of lentils then I put in the bag of "15 beans" AND the seasoning. I throw in a couple more teaspoons of celery salt, cover everything with water and let it cook all day. After 8 hours or so, fish out the cleaned ham bone and eat! THAT'S IT!

Have fun with whatever you decide to cook!

 

[disneygal2007]

Collard Greens!!! YUMMY

thats what I was gonna say yummy.

 

[Magic Maker]

Collarrddd greeennsss...Mmmmmm. Sooo hungreees...

 

[ENSOCK]

OK so what did you do with the ham bone????

 

[DisneyDotty]

Just a note of caution here if using a bone from a spiral sliced ham--I made a lovely pot of navy bean soup with my leftover ham bone and found lots of bits of bone in it. Had to throw the whole batch away. I'm guessing the spiral slicing machine got a little too close to the bone! Big waste of a delicious soup!
So be careful. Maybe make the soup stock first, strain it, and then throw in the beans/vegetables.

 

[Topper]

Senate Bean Soup
http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_item/bean_soup.htm

 

[dyna]

BEANS any kind they the easiest things in the world to cook never heard of using no recipe either lol

gotta have cornbread an homemade catsup with beans an ham tho....

 

[Boo'sMom]

Give it to the dog!

Yeah! My dogs go over the moon for theirs and don't try to get near it! Love at first bite for them!

I second it go ahead and put a smile on a dog's face!

NO!!!!!! Ham is a pork product, a huge no-go for dogs.

I just made ham and corn chowder....yum

 

[Evans Family]

NO!!!!!! Ham is a pork product, a huge no-go for dogs.

I just made ham and corn chowder....yum

So can dogs eat ham just not the bone? Or are all pork products off limits to dogs?

 

[tonilea]

So can dogs eat ham just not the bone? Or are all pork products off limits to dogs?

Ham is very salty and fatty. It is a huge No-No for dogs.