Spice up your holiday with Cook’s Ham
Ham has long been the traditional holiday centerpiece.
Just take a look at this Double-Glazed Spiral Sliced Bone-In Honey Ham. Mouth-watering, eh?
There are many brands of ham available, but one quality brand to look for is Cook’s. That’s because Cook’s hams always begin with old-fashioned bone-in hams for a more natural texture and taste. They are slow-cured with natural ingredients like pure cane sugar, real honey, brown sugar and maple syrup. The hams are then smoked for hours using real hickory wood, for the perfect finish. Cook’s branded hams and other smoked meats are sold at leading supermarket chains and independent grocers across the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
My favorite part of a holiday meal is the leftovers! I can usually get pretty creative with the bits and pieces of turkey and ham that remain. The Cook’s Ham website has some fun recipes… the ham tortilla Christmas tree caught my eye. 
For more information on Cook’s ham and how to prepare the perfect holiday ham, please visit www.cooksham.com/HamTV.
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Made Garlic Cheese Grits at Thanksgiving. Overdid the garlic and cayene pepper, would have killed rodents.
Think it was the year we HAD to have wild turkey. That was bad enough (dry and gamey), but I broke a tooth on the pellet some hunter missed while cleaning said bird!
My mother was sick, so I was cooking my first Thanksgiving dinner. We always had devilled eggs as an appetizer, so I set in to make them. My mother always sprinkled them with something red, so I searched thru her spices and sprinkled the first red item I came to, which happened to be red pepper. It was way too hot for everyone to eat, and I didn’t find out till later that you’re supposed to use paprika.
I let my 6 year Nephew help me make cookies and instead of putting sugar in the mixture he put in salt without me noticing. We the baked all the cookies but it wasnt until we were done and we went to try our creations together that I realized what had happened. Never the less we spent another 2 hours making them again and enjoying a tall glass of milk afterwards with our new cookies, delicious!
I once started a small kitchen fire when I attempted to add brandy to a dish.
I forgot to remove the giblets pack before I roasted the turkey – Yuck! Thanks for this offer.
i dropped the ham on the ground, took a lot of scrubbing to clean it
A few years ago, just before Christmas we had a bad ice storm here in Columbus, followed by a power outtage that lasted several days. We had no heat, no way to cook, and Christmas was coming. We didn’t get power back until Christmas Eve, so our “cooking disaster” was that we couldn’t cook at all. We had Asian carryout for our our Christmas Eve dinner, but at least we were together!
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When I made my very first Turkey, it was for my neighbors that didn’t have anywhere to go on Thanksgiving. I didn’t know anything about cooking a turkey and had no business trying! It turned out tough, tasteless, and terrible. It was so bad, the color was even a little gray. Ew! I was so embarrassed! I had to do some research, then invite them back for a turkey they would remember. And it worked!
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My worst holiday cooking experience was when I tried to cook a turkey for Thaksgiving for the first time and I didn’t cook it all the way through.
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happily to say I can’t remember a holiday meal that was my worst holiday cooking experience.
but this thanksgiving we went to our oldest daughters house for thanksgiving and since I had driven over 1200 miles one way she insisted on doing all the cooking. She had a 22lb turkey which was still partially frozen that morning well she had to work half a day so she went and stuffed the turkey put in oven. later as I’m removing the stuffing and putting in bowl out comes the bag that contained the neck, heart etc. She had forgotten to remove it a head of time which I should have asked her if she had done so when earier as turkey cooked she complained that all the stuffing wouldn’t fit.
She was so upset but I had to laugh because her husband says thats the second time she’s done that
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The worst was scorching potatoes that I was boiling for potato salad… made the potato salad anyway and all you could taste was scorched potato ewwwwwwww
One year on Thanksgiving I used one of those cheap aluminum pans to cook the turkey, When I took it out the pan split in half and the turkey fell to the floor.
My worst cooking experience was this Thanksgiving. Everything was WONDERFUL…except the gravy! It NEVER thickened. My mom and I had so much flour and cornstarch in there, we should have been able to walk on it…but, it was like thin water. Ugh.
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Mine is the dreaded dry turkey. It was so dry and awful, but no one wanted to hurt my feelings. I then learned that online recipes are truly some of the best things in the world.
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I see I’m not the only person to leave the plastic bag of giblets in the roasting turkey. Damn that stank!
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I was having Thanksgiving at my house. I turned the oven on to preheat it and I heard a POP. I opened the oven door and found that my heating element had snapped in two! I had to take everything I was going to bake to my Mom’s and use her oven.
I was 19 years old; it was the year both my parents died. A friend asked me to roast her turkey, and we were having a large group dinner. I did everything beautifully, and even timed service well… except for the separate bowl of dressing I put in a bowl in the oven at the same time as they turkey. It was such a hard block it literally would bounce off a wall… Fortunately the other dressing in the bird was fine and everyone enjoyed that instead.
I made some pudding for a dinner once and didn’t realize that I had burned it untill we were eating it.
We seem to have the same problem time and again — forgetting something in the oven. Last year was rolls, the year before we left a potato dish in the oven at home when we went to the in-laws.
I cooked a turkey once with the gizzards and neck still inside, it was many years ago, but we still laugh about it today. I subscribe to your blog. Thank you!
Well my disaster was the time I was cooking a Holiday Turkey and I forgot to turn the electric roasting pan on for like 2 hours it sat in the cooker not cooking
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I made my first turkey for thanksgiving this year and it turned out great! No bad experiences come to mind yet. I would love to try a ham. So yummy!
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I can’t remember a bad meal experience. Our meals have always been wonderful and I am not Martha Stewart
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my wife made a turkey for her first time on thanksgiving and she had no idea what to do, she defrosted it over night in the bathtub then undercooked it by and hour and a half, needless to say we both had horrible food poisoning
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My worst holiday cooking experience was when I didn’t time everything perfectly and the turkey needed another hour to cook when everything else was ready to serve…ugh! It could have been worse but I felt like a horrible hostess.
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worst would be last year when everything was done except the turkey it was still pinkish in the middle and we had to put plate by plate in the microwave it was awful
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forgot to take the bag of gibblets out before putting stuffing in the turkey
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When I was first married I couldn’t cook at all. My worst cooking disaster was trying to boil water and I left it on the burner and scorched the pan black. Worst of all I didn’t realize what I had done and accused my husband of blowing smoke over our dinner.
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forgot to add spices to pumpkin pie. bleh! Thanks for the contest.