Your turkey may not be centerpiece of the Thanksgiving spread, if you follow our simple tips on scoring that holiday ham.
Tip of the Day - Scoring the Holiday Ham
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Thanksgiving Recipes - Spanish Ham and Melon with Spiced Vinaigrette
The ham isn't always the centerpiece of a holiday meal. The classic Spanish ham-and-melon pairing is the perfect appetizer to entertain your guest's taste buds.
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Thanksgiving Recipes - Ham, Gruyere and Spinach Bread Pudding
Looking for leftover ham recipes? Use the excess in a rich ham-and-cheese breakfast casserole for a Black Friday brunch.
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Thanksgiving Recipes - Maple Glazed Ham
Honey baked ham gets a maple makeover when basted with a maple syrup and Dijon mustard mixture.
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Thanksgiving Recipes - Brown Sugar-Baked Ham
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Where to Buy Your Honey Baked Ham Online
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| Honey Baked Ham: Ipettinati, Flickr.com |
- The HoneyBaked Ham Company offers whole and half honey-baked and glazed hams online. You can even order complete meals with side dishes like green bean casserole, potatoes au gratin and southern pecan pie.
- Chicago's Allen Brothers, whose steaks are served in steakhouses like Morton's and at Lawry's the Prime Rib's four outposts, offers honey-glazed hams and ham dinners.
- The Holiday Ham Company has whole and half-hams online, along with side dishes, seafood, turkey and steaks.
- Smithfield Marketplace has a variety of hams in addition to its honey baked ham, including brown-sugar and wine-glazed hams.
- Hickory Farms, Dean and Deluca and Omaha Steaks all offer glazed hams and other holiday staples online.
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Thanksgiving Recipes - Honey-Glazed Ham
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Pomegranate Pulled Pork - Feast Your Eyes
Pulled pork sandwich. Photo: rachel is coconut&lime, Flickr.
And when you consider the time and effort that goes into a sandwich like this one from Flickr user rachel is coconut&lime, the pork is the clear winner -- especially because of its secret ingredient.
With most sandwiches, what you see is what you get. Not so with this pomegranate pulled pork. That's right, not only was the pork roasted with pomegranate arils (the seeds), Rachel also used pomegranate molasses, rendering the meat smoky, spicy and sweet.
It looks so good we could eat it every day. Good thing it's not that bad for you.
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Pork Chop
Photo: FOX8
Sue Church stopped by WGHP-TV in High Point, N.C., on Tuesday with a pork chop that she thinks resembles the reindeer made famous by the Johnny Marks song.
What do you think? Is it Rudolph? And have you ever seen an image in your food? Let us know in the comments below.
[Via FOX8]
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The Great Casing Debate at the Louisiana Boudin Festival
Photo: Bob Carriker
"For some people, the way they eat boudin is to bite off the first bite and squeeze out the filling the rest of the way," explains event organizer Bob Carriker, who created the web site The Boudin Link to chronicle his ardor for the spicy, rice-y, pork-based snack. "And some people like to eat the casing as they go."
Carriker polled attendees at last year's cookoff, the first edition of the festival, and discovered the crowd was almost evenly split: Discarding the casing was favored by 117 voters, while 86 boudin fans claimed they liked their casing on.
"This is a raging debate in South Louisiana," Carriker says. "Health care, schmealth care."
As Carriker's lingo suggests, he's not a Louisiana native. He moved there from Washington for a job, and immediately set about acquainting himself with the state's cuisine.
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Japanese Chashu - Feast Your Eyes
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And norecipe.com's Japanese Chashu -- which indicates merely its component of barbecued or roasted pork -- is worthy of the perfection of its meat. Braised in a combination of soy sauce and miso, it undergoes a rather "unorthodox" approach, as Marc brings his version "full circle back to its Chinese roots, [adding] garlic, ginger, and white pepper, which give the meat some character without overwhelming its porky goodness." Prepared en masse, the pork is equally delicious atop a steamy bowl of ramen, pasta, salads and more.
[Via norecipes.com]
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October Food Festivals
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| Barbecue ribs. Photo: biskuit, Flickr. |
Dixon Lambtown USA, Dixon, Calif., Oct. 3: Break out the mint jelly! Attendees can participate in such culinary slugfests as the National Lamb Ribs Eating Contest and Barbecue Cook-Off, not to mention a shearing competition and sheepdog trials. For the kiddies, there's Mutton Bustin' -- a buckin' bronco bruising of the woolly kind.
The Food Network New York City Wine and Food Festival, New York, Oct. 8-11: Hosted by and benefiting the Food Bank for New York City and Share Our Strength, this festival brings the toque and the home cook together. Everyone from sous chefs to casserole queens can attend wine seminars, recipe-creation panels and cooking demonstrations. For the kiddie cook, check out the Kids Get Cooking! series. Your favorite celebrity TV chefs will be there, en masse, including Ming Tsai, Paula Deen, Rachael Ray and Anthony Bourdain, as well as culinary heavyweights such as Sue Torres, Marcus Samuelsson, Odette Fada, Daniel Boulud and David Chang.
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Quick and Simple Asian-Style Supper
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Thankfully that time is here. Living in a college town -- Athens, Ga. -- it seems we start doing even more entertaining. Sometimes I use this time to experiment with new recipes, but if time does not allow, I have some favorite recipes that are quick but well-liked.
Most people love an Asian-inspired menu and it's certainly more innovative than traditional burgers and hot dogs on game weekends. Shrimp and Mango Summer Rolls are a divine starter and can easily be made vegetarian. My Pineapple and Red Pepper Pork Kebabs are easy enough to make even for a weeknight meal or ahead of time tp be taken them to a tailgate. Get these fall grill recipes after the jump.
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Hot Dog Taste Test
Did your favorite frank lead the pack? Read on.
Our intrepid pack of testers chomped their way through 50 different franks, hot dogs and wieners in hot pursuit of the top tube steak in all the land. Not a single chicken, turkey or tofu dog made the final cut, while beef and pork reigned supreme.
Did your favorite frank lead the pack? Read on.
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Best Hot Dogs
Our intrepid pack of testers chomped their way through 50 different franks, hot dogs and wieners in hot pursuit of the top tube steak in all the land. Not a single chicken, turkey or tofu dog made the final cut, while beef and pork reigned supreme.
Did your favorite frank lead the pack? Read on.
Nathan Ellis Perkel
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Best Hot Dogs
Our intrepid pack of testers chomped their way through 50 different franks, hot dogs and wieners in hot pursuit of the top tube steak in all the land. Not a single chicken, turkey or tofu dog made the final cut, while beef and pork reigned supreme.
Did your favorite frank lead the pack? Read on.
Nathan Ellis Perkel
20. DIETZ & WATSON NEW YORK BRAND BEEF FRANKS
(All Beef, Natural Casing)
The strong casing caused our panel to snap to attention, and the solid, beefy interior makes this a dandy, workaday dog.
Nathan Ellis Perkel
19. SABRETT SKINLESS BEEF FRANKFURTERS
(All Beef)
Our panelists were split on the subtly peppery aftertaste, but all sang the praises of the juicy, gently salted initial flavor experience.
Nathan Ellis Perkel
18. COLEMAN NATURAL UNCURED BEEF HOT DOGS
(Uncured, All Beef)
All tasters sang the praises of the smoky, bratwurst-like flavor or this firm, un-fancy frank.
Nathan Ellis Perkel
17. HILLSHIRE FARMS LIT'L BEEF FRANKS
(All Beef)
These wee wieners pack a lot of meaty, salty flavor into a bitty bite. The size allows for lots of skin crisping, and our panel deemed 'em a 'perfectly respectable cocktail frank.'
Nathan Ellis Perkel
16. WOLFE'S NECK UNCURED HOT DOGS
(Pork, Beef, Natural Lamb Casing)
Our tasters were in agreement that a pinch more salt would really make this pup pop, but still, the snappy, crunchy skin and juicy inside more than made up for it.
Nathan Ellis Perkel
15. OSCAR MEYER PREMIUM BEEF FRANKS
(All Beef)
On the other hand, this one got a teensy bit too silly with the salt shaker, but still nosed ahead with a distinctive smoky sweetness, and a snappy skin that crisps up beautifully over an open flame.
Nathan Ellis Perkel
14. OSCAR MAYER WIENERS
(Turkey, Chicken, Pork)
This childhood classic holds its own against the fancier franks, earning raves for its spicy, smoky flavor combo and sturdy casing. Oh, Oscar, we are still in love with you.
Nathan Ellis Perkel
13. BALL PARK BEEF FRANKS
(All Beef)
Every single tester waxed wacky over the satisfying juice jolt of this beefy stadium staple. The flavor may not be a grand slam, but it's a solid base hit.
Nathan Ellis Perkel
12. OSCAR MAYER MINI HOT DOGS
(All Beef)
This tiny dog has the heart of a champion, fetching maximum intense flavor per square centimeter. As one panelist suggests, 'Wrap some Pillsbury around these, and you've got a party!'
Nathan Ellis Perkel
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Regional BBQ Quiz
How does Georgia barbeque differ from Kansas barbeque? Quiz yourself on barbeque recipes from all different regions of the country.
Regional BBQ
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