Use for ham bone?

[Tater]

Okay, so dd smoked a ham yesterday (yummy!) I've cut off all meat and wrapped it for the freezer and I'm left with the bone. What can I do with it? Soup? stock? anyone have recipes?

[Persimmon Lace]

Ham bone
potatoes
cabbage
carrots
onion
Place in large pot with some water and let cook for a few hours. If not alot of ham on the bone add some. Otherwise whatever is left will fall off. Yummy!

[Darlene]

Tried and true. I make this whenever I have a ham bone,truth be told that's mainly why I buy the ham.

~Pea Soup~

16 oz split green peas-rinse & check
9c. water
1 meaty hambone
1 lg onion,chopped
2 chicken boullion cubes (I use chicken soup base, it's a powder)
1/2 tsp each garlic powder & oregano
1/4 tsp each blk pepper & ground cloves
1 bay leaf
1+1/2c thinly sliced carrots
1c. sliced celery
s&p to taste

Mix all except carrots & celery & simmer 2 hrs. Remove hambone cool a bit and add any meat from the bone and the carrots & celery to the pot. Simmer another hour. Taste and add more boullion if necessary. Remove bayleaf. May also add extra ham if wanted, just cube & toss in to heat through.

[nancycg56]

Red beans and rice or stick it in a pot of jambalaya ~ yummy!

[Brat]

Boil ham bone covered with water...Because I need to remove as much fat as I can I cool it over night..take meat that is left and clear broth and add white navy beans, that you have soaked overnight, chopped carrotts, and chopped onion...good with pan of corn bread...

[dcompton]

Same as above, but lima beans are great with ham too. They're my favorites! If you don't want to do it right now, you can always freeze the bone too, and use it later.

I read an interesting thing once about boiling bones -- I don't know if it's true. That if you add a little vinegar to the cooking water, which won't affect the taste at all, it extracts calcium from the bone. We can all use a little extra calcium, right? I do it on the rare occasions I remember on the theory that it can't hurt!

[baxjul]

Bean soup!

[Jeanna]

Green beans cooked with a ham bone in it is really good.

[DixieJ]

I've got red beans cooking in the crockpot now with a leftover ham bone.


Dixie Jean

[Tater]

Thanks, guys!! My dh was going to give it to the dog!!! I freaked out and wrapped it and put it in the fridge. What's a girl to do?