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Originally Posted by gemkeeper
NMS, what a great break for you! A ham bone makes wonderful ham and bean soup. I love to make mine with Great Northern Beans, potatoes, onions, celery and a little chopped, canned tomato. Yummy!
When they say "semi-boneless", that means you will get a shank bone or similar sized bone, but not the entire joint. A boneless ham has the bone removed, but nearly as much flavor and not much chance of that next great dinner with the ham bone.
If you don't like ham and bean soup, the bone makes a wonderful broth for ham, green beans, wedged potatoes and some onion. Always one of our family favorites with a nice crusty bread for sopping up the broth from the plate. Another winner for us PA Dutch folks.
Hey, Gem! Thanks...but you can't have my ham bone. It'll get used for home made baked beans (can't use bacon anymore due to DH's cholesterol issues). Maybe next time. I was just ticked because we paid for lots of meat and got lots of bone instead. And I was being a smart a&& about the boneless vs. semi. You know me.
Oh, and I like to make veggie soup w/ham bone, too. Yum! Love that broth. You're right - ya gotta have that bone for the best flavor.
Busy day today, maybe later I'll go back and read all the chatting you folks have done! No dinner tonight - you got it, our favorite AYCE place strikes again!
Well dinner is easy tonight. Wife is getting a chicken, some carrot salad to go along with some cukes for dinner. No cooking involved. We both have had a bad day so having a Publix on her way home is a very good thing.
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Tonight I think will be just a little pasta later on.
Tomorrow is forecast to be the coldest day of our current cold-snap, tomorrow night's beef shanks are happily bubbling away, with thyme and rosemary among other things they smell
I've got a church-related function tonight. Once there, we'll be having fried and grilled chicken tenders, mashed potatoes, corn, salad, and numerous desserts, one of which I'll be planning to bring. I've picked up a very reliable package of store-baked lemon cake, already sliced, from Tom Thumb grocery, and it is wonderful.
Now, an update on this weekend from the case44 newsroom. I have to go in to work on Sunday in a pinch, so I'm postponing my previously-mentioned shrimp gumbo until the following weekend. That was something I've waited for, but will now have to wait longer. I'm looking forward to making it, though.
It's going to be a cold night so we're going to hunker down at home and cook with stuff on hand.
I'm going to make a Thai dish with Soba (buckwheat) noodles with peanut sauce (soy sauce, peanut butter, hot chili oil, brown sugar, vinegar, fresh garlic, ginger, hot water) and a fruit salad (apple, pear, banana, cinnamon).
A bit of red wine followed by some hot tea and a good book.
Spaghetti sauce is done. Not used to my new pressure cooker and almost burned it, but saved it just in time! Used to have an electric one which was great, but it broke, so this time I got stove top kind thinking it can't break. Now I realize how easy it was with the electric one that I can program everything. Oh, well, I'll get used to it. My oldest (pasta hating punk) said he needs to drop 2 pounds to make his wrestling weight class, so he is not eating meatball sandwich. I hate it when he does that. Kid is like 5'7" and weighs 114lbs, he wants to be 112lbs for the match. He is naturally lean and 114-115 is his normal weight, so it's not like he's starving himself, but not like he has to lose any weight at all. I'll be making him some veggies and chicken from last night and some smoothie with bunch of fruit and yogurt after he comes home from his practice.
Well dinner is easy tonight. Wife is getting a chicken, some carrot salad to go along with some cukes for dinner. No cooking involved. We both have had a bad day so having a Publix on her way home is a very good thing.
Take it easy, rest up - hope the weekend brings good news and better days
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And I was being a smart a&& about the boneless vs. semi. 
You know me.
One Function, One Postponement
. I have to go in to work on Sunday in a pinch, so I'm postponing my previously-mentioned shrimp gumbo until the following weekend. That was something I've waited for, but will now have to wait longer. I'm looking forward to making it, though.