How To Cook For Beginners

How to make a glazed ham is probably on the minds of many a new and seasoned home chef this Holiday time. When you are looking to glaze a ham, there are just tons of recipes to choose from. At the end of the day, what you are doing is making a glaze of sweet stuff that you are going to brush your ham with while you are baking it and allow the moisture to come of, and let the sugars caramelize too.

You getting hungry yet? I am Anyway, there are tons of best glazed ham recipes, and how to glaze hams..but I’ll give you a super easy way to make a great glaze and, I’ll post a bunch of great ones here as well.

Take about one cup of honey, and 1/2 cup of brown sugar. Moisten it with orange juice so it looks like wet sand or cement. Then add in about 2-3 tablespoons of Dijon mustard, and 1 cup of orange marmalade. Stir this up into a nice sauce.

Place your ham into the oven, and then while you are baking it, say at 350 degrees, generously brush this on the ham every 15-20 minutes. You should see a nice glaze starting…Now, if the ham is heated through, and it doesn’t quite have the rich caramized color, turn on your broiler and let it brown from the top. BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU DO THIS! THERE IS SO MUCH SUGAR, THAT YOU NEED TO STAY THERE..OR YOU WILL BURN IT! Watch it as it browns, and then pull it when you get the color you want. Continue Reading »

How do I make a ham? This another one of those questions that gets asked alot. And the real answer to how to bake a ham, or how to make a ham really depends on a few things. The thing you really need to understand is what kind of ham you have. If you are getting one of those cheap hams from the grocery store, you know the kind I mean, the one in the can, then there isn’t really alot you can do, since it is probably one of those that has tons fo brine in it and is pressed meat togetther.

Yes, they are cheap, but you get what you pay for , and that is crap.  So, what kind of ham should you get if you really want to have a good experience?

The kind of ham I recommend, if you don’t want to pay for the expensive honey glazed types of hams, or those ones that are dry curd or smoked, is at least gett a whole muscle ham and preferrably one with the bone in.

You can actually get a similar ham to a Farmer Johns Ham, the kind in the gold foil. Continue Reading »