Ham perfection.
Posted on 12/21/2023 12:33:15 PM PST by DallasBiff
Ham is not just the go-to main dish for holidays such as Christmas, St. Patrick’s Day, and Easter Sunday. Throughout the year, ham is also an entree at regular dinners as well as a supporting role in sandwiches, salads, and even on pizza! But is ham healthy?
This question especially comes from people struggling to improve eating habits or reach their weight loss goals and wonder if the ham is healthy as a main course choice.
So what even is ham? This cut of pork, normally taken from a pig’s upper hind leg, is often sold cured. This can be either wet-cured or dry-cured ham. Some purchase it smoked for added flavor. Either way, it is mostly purchased after being cooked and ready to eat
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If ham is from the rear of the pig, is it Ham-ass?
And we do hate Hamass, right?
Now your talking..! A ham bone with lots of meat left on it, cooked with great northern beans and some fried potatoes.. Man, that is some serious tucker....
Deu 14:8 Also the swine is unclean for you, because it has cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud; you shall not eat their flesh or touch their dead carcasses.
Modern Christianity pretty much changed that just so they wouldn't look too much like Jews.
Good one!!!!
Country ham is salt cured.
Country ham is salt cured.
I lived over in the Philippines as a kid. When we left, someone gave my mother a salt cured Smithfield Ham. It was a great big thing, the entire hindquarter of a pig, in a burlap sack.
Well. She brought it back to the states when my dad got orders stateside, and that thing hung in the kitchen of our small quarters for the better part of two years there until my mom probably got sick of looking at that old, beat up burlap bag with the red stenciling on the outside, and decided to do something with it.
Apparently, it was supposed to be covered in fresh water to soak for five days, and it was too big to go into the kitchen sink, so my mom filled the bathtub in their master bedroom, and put it in there for five days.
After she cooked it she sliced it really thick (ham steaks about a half inch thick) and the ham was completely inedible.
It was so salty it simply could not be eaten.
She was so mad none of us would eat it...until she tasted it herself. She threw that entire thing in the trash. Even the dog wouldn’t eat any of it.
Years later, she said someone told her that ham was not supposed to be cut into thick steaks, but was made to be sliced paper thin.
Perhaps.
But I still don’t think it would have been edible!
Ham perfection.
The only ham I ever threw away was a Smithfield. Too salty by far. But now I hear that China (the PRC) has bought Smithfield. To that I reply, ‘suckers.’
Loved that scene.
I don’t trust ham sandwiches, though. They are always getting indicted.
My mother made hog jowls pretty often when I was a kid, but I haven’t had any in ages. Good stuff. I saw some at the market the other day. Maybe it’s time to get reacquainted.
You had a prosciutto and didn’t even know it. My favorite pork product. I lived two years in Italy and could get this type for 1/10th of what cost here. Was great with early green olives and melon!
Sliced hog jowl fries up real nice. I usually cut of the rind as my teeth aren’t as many as when I was younger.
I’m a southerner. Don’t get me started on ham. My wife made me hide the Edwards ham until Christmas.
Yes we always had turkey for Thanksgiving and ham for Christmas.
That’s how Mom made them. I remember that rind. I might have to trim it, too.
Yup.
Leftover Ham should be dropped on Gaza. Everybody there will love it.
The only part of the hog I couldn’t get my head around was ironically, head cheese. Grandad would slice off a thick piece and make a sandwich out of it. Ugh!
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