Honey Glazed Ham Family Recipe

I recently polled about 150 high school students at Bingham High School in Salt Lake City to see what they want Mom and Dad or Grandma and Grandpa to cook on Christmas Day or other holiday days like Hanukkah. The spirit of Santa Claus is truly alive in these young people since one of their top ten answers was not food, but "having the whole family together for the holiday meal."

Here are the results of the high school Favorite Christmas Dinner or Hanukkah Dinner poll and my personal honey glazed ham recipe. My honey glazed ham is also the most requested Christmas dinner by my daughter and family. I also included some affordable wines that go nice with a holiday ham dinner. Of course, the teenagers get the Welch's grape juice.

Top 10 Christmas Dinners or Hanukkah Dinners Requested by High School Students

Ham

Mashed potatoes and gravy

Turkey

Funeral potatoes

Kosher pot roast

Having the whole family together

Steak

Rolls

Green bean casserole

Yams

Other notable Christmas or Hanukkah Dinner Favorites: prime rib, homemade soups, scalloped potatoes, cheese and garlic potatoes, cranberries, spaghetti, ravioli, lasagna, haystacks, tamales, Armenian Kabobs, traditional Swedish dinner, King Crab, stuffed mushrooms, hash brown quiche, Sprite and a chocolate bar, clam dip, cheese broccoli, Grandma's prison chicken, fruit cake rolls and flat bread

Honey Glazed Ham Family Recipe

1 8-10 lb uncooked half ham

1 fresh pineapple, peeled and sliced

1 bottle pineapple juice - enough for 3 cups total

1 jar Maraschino cherries

10 whole cloves

1 12 oz jar of pure honey

2 cups brown sugar

4 oranges

4 apples

4 cups water

Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Cook ham on low heat for 8-10 hours according to size. Cut a diamond pattern in the fat section on top of the ham.

Place a whole clove in corners of diamonds all over the top of the ham.

Using toothpicks, place a Maraschino cherry inside the whole of the pineapple slice and stick onto ham, covering the top and sides of ham.

Place ham of rack of roasting pan.

In bottom of roasting pan, put one cup water and 4 apples quartered.

Pour one cup pineapple juice over top of ham.

Squeeze juice from one orange over top of ham.

Roast for 6 hours, basting every 2 hours and adding more water if necessary. Squeeze another orange on top every two hours.

In a separate saucepan, combine 2 cups pineapple juice, 12 oz jar of honey, and 2 cups brown sugar. Pour over the top of the ham during the last 2 hours of baking. Baste every 30 minutes until ham if fully cooked.

Affordable Wines to Serve with Ham Dinner

Chateau Sainte Michelle Eroica Riesling

Ruffino Chianti (classic wine in a straw decorated bottle)

Straccali Chianti

Robert Mondavi Pinot Noir

Castle Rock Pinot Noir

Sutter Home White Zinfandel

Coppola Rosso

Beringer White Zinfandel

Yellow Tail Syrah

Louis Jadot Beaujolais-Villages

Woodbridge Cabernet Sauvignon

Almaden Light White Zinfandel (very stylish looking bottle)

Jacob's Creek Shiraz

Ballentine Vineyards Pocai Vineyard Old Vines Chenin Blanc

Trimbach Gewurztraminer

Happy Holidays from Our Family to Yours!