This week Hailey has mastered crawling and decided she is ready to pull up on everything! Last week she had to go back to all bottles and some pedialyte because her belly was having some major troubles. But-starting yesterday we have slowly started introducing some cereal back into her diet-again. Maybe one day her belly will catch up with the rest of her.
Chris had to work on his 24 hr shift on Sunday-so Hailey and I had the day to ourselves. She looked so cute in her new spring dress, and we took dinner to the fire station that night.
I used a new recipe for ham and it was awesome! I'm not a big fan of holiday rubbery, can't cut through it with a plastic knife, hams. But I found this on allrecipes.com and everyone loved it.
Here's the recipe:
Glazed Ham
Ingredients:
1 (8 lb) bone-in shank ham 2 TBSP liquid smoke flavoring
4 cups water, or as needed 2 TBSP Worcestershire sauce
1/2 c. honey 1 pinch ground cloves
1/2 c. brown sugar
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 275 degrees F. Place ham in a roasting pan. Pour in water to a 2 inch depth. Cover with a tight fitting lid.
Bake for 6 to 8 hours in the preheated oven (all day or all night). Remove from the oven, pour off drippings and reserve. Debone ham, removing any excess fat as well, and return to the roasting pan.
Skim fat from the top of the drippings, and discard. In a small bowl, mix one-cup of the drippings with honey, brown sugar, liquid smoke, worcestershire sauce and cloves. Pour this over ham, cover and return to the oven.
Bake for another 30 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.
I cheated a little bit. I bought a pre-cooked, pre-smoked, pre-sliced, 8 lb ham on sale and had it in the freezer. I thawed it in the fridge for 2 days. Then I put it in a roasting pan with about an inch of water and baked for 1 1/2 hours at 250 degrees tightly covered with heavy foil. Then I poured off the drippings, keeping one cup, and made the glaze as directed (it's pretty runny, and I didn't add cloves for my preference) Then I baked it for another 45 minutes - hour and it was done!
All the guys at the station loved it and I even thought it was pretty good, considering I'm not a big fan of ham. This is so easy and next time you have to do the holiday ham I suggest you try this. According to others who made this-if you make this from a raw shank ham it turns out more like bbq- it just falls apart. Mine was a pre-cooked ham and it fell right off the bone the way I cooked it too.
Hope you all had a wonderful Easter Sunday, I added a few pics of Hailey in her spring dress, and because there was no one to take a family photo of us- I snapped a pic of Hailey and me with one hand-not great but kind of funny.
