Ways to use up the ham — ham and cheese sliders, ham and bean soup, cheesy scalloped potatoes and ham, croissant bake — for the week after a holiday.
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Open in Pepper →A big ham is generous by nature. Once the holiday plate is cleared, you still have pounds of good meat in the fridge, and it deserves better than another cold sandwich.
Cooks on Pepper reach for this collection the Monday after a Sunday ham, when nobody wants to start from scratch but everybody still wants to sit down to something hot.
Every recipe here starts with ham you already cooked: ham and cheese sliders on Hawaiian rolls, hot ham and cheese in a 9x13, ham and cheese casserole with egg noodles, cheesy scalloped potatoes and ham, ham and bean soup, and a croissant bake for morning.
Cube the ham cold
Ham slices cleanest straight from the fridge. Cut a pound into even 1/2-inch cubes so it heats through in casseroles without drying out.
Save the bone
Drop the bone into the pot with your beans, onion, celery and carrots and simmer 2 hours for a soup with real body.
Brush the tops with butter
Melted butter over sliders or crescent rolls before baking gives you a golden top in 20 to 25 minutes at 350°F.
Let the bake rest
Pull the croissant bake or casserole and let it sit 10 minutes so the custard sets and the squares hold together.