Six Smart Ways to Use Your Holiday Ham Leftovers
If you had a ham this Christmas, chances are there is still a little bit left of it. You can use it to make sandwiches (obviously), but if you want to get a little more creative, here are some of my favorite uses for salted pork.
- Add it to your soup: Not only can bone make a good broth – like April Bloomfield with her green pea and ham soup – but sliced ham can also work well in a wide variety of soups such as navy beans and split peas. and even creamy potatoes and leeks.
- Use it to season vegetables: cut a slice and use it like bacon and sauté it along with kale, pinto beans, or green beans. (Indeed, ham tastes good with literally any beans.)
- Make a breakfast meat: toss it in porridge , use it in a benedict, or fry it in thick slices to go with eggs and toast.
- Put it in the pasta: Salted ham cubes make creamy pasta dishes even more warming and soothing than they already are. You can also combine it with cheese, eggs and herbs for a delicious ravioli filling .
- Put it in potatoes: In fact, I recommend dumping all the leftovers from the holiday meal on a pile of hot baked potatoes and letting your family make their own salty, fluffy masterpiece, but the salty ham should be in the front and center.
- Pile It on Pizza: what could be better than ham and pineapple pizza? I think not, but I’m the kind of pervert who likes pineapple in pizza.
Of course, no one will blame you for just making a sandwich (with some mayonnaise on the leftover bun). The ham sandwiches are full of truth.