Monday, May 25, 2009

the yachtsman wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot oar

It was a short long weekend in the Adirondacks, during which time I took up with ham in a pretty major way. I'd thought I didn't like ham (actually, for about twenty years I thought I was a vegetarian, another story entirely), but it turns out I only like certain ham. This ham was so good, I ate it as regular ham (three days in a row), and then I ate it in my mother-in-law's grandmother's "signature recipe," Oklahoma Ham Loaf. While not particularly photogenic, Oklahoma Ham Loaf is actually pretty tasty.


I'm currently working on my own signature recipe, which I hope will be a pork product topped with a pork product, but will more likely be toast topped with peanut butter.

4 comments:

  1. OK, this came out better than anticipated. There is a different standard in Oklahoma than in the NE, and it was a different time. Long story short, no leftovers!

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  2. I heard you had it for breakfast the next day with an egg on top, which I'm very sorry to have missed, both because it sounds delicious and because I would like to have seen whether it made the yachtsman gag.

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  3. I have to say I am nothing short of SHOCKED that the yachtsman didn't want to eat the meat topped meat, it seems like something he would love.

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  4. Mojie, the yachtsman is an enigma. Wrapped in a riddle. And usually topped with bacon. But for reasons I don't entirely understand, he completely freaked out when JR started grinding up the ham. There was actual gagging and moaning. So instead of eating the homemade ham loaf, he took a pre-made, GROUND turkey burger from the freezer and cooked that instead.

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