we make porridge. Yes, I'm Asian.

freeze it. Next summer, make a pot of crab soup (MD style, tomato based). YUM

Put it in a huge pot and boil the heck out of it -- I am talking multiple hours. All of the leftover meat will fall off and then you can do whatever you like with that meat: split pea soup, ham salad, etc. Go thru some old-timey cookbooks for ideas. I just did this recently right before Hurricane Sandy so we'd have a ton of meat to eat if we lost power and it was awesome. I heart spiral hams.

Red beans and rice!

White bean soup. All you need besides the ham bone is garlic, onion, pepper, and optional hot sauce. And if it seems boring, you can adjust at the end with the tiniest smidge of vinegar and/or brown sugar. But don't go overboard with those.

After you get bored with it like that, you can add shredded kale at the end (and feel good that you ate a vegetable).

Black-eyed peas in the crockpot with sauteed cabbage and rice as sides-so good!

Blackeyed peas

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SOUP! Particularly split pea!

+1 yum yum!

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Split pea soup

My grandmother used to use them to make pasta fagioli. Delicious!

Anonymous wrote:SOUP! Particularly split pea!

+1 yum yum!

SOUP! Particularly split pea!

you don't need a pressure cooker - can also do it in a stock pot.

Do you have a slow cooker? You can cook some delicious beans with that ham bone. [drool]

I just removed all the meat from a spiral honey ham and would like to do something with the bone and remaining bits.

How would you use it?