potatoes dauphinoise with embedded ham

I bought a gammon from Iceland for the Christmas festivities – it was … OK, but not great, and very salty, so it languished in the fridge. There was also half a chunk of Gruyere, as I had done dauphinoise potatoes with the Christmas lunch, and some cream. So last night, Pete sliced potatoes very thinly…

yet another gammon

I pulled this hunk of MP^H^H pig out of the freezer yesterday morning, meaning to check later in the day as to whether it was cooked or not (I really should label things better). I didn’t check, and it is uncooked, sadly, so there will be no gammon for lunch today. But there will be…

fruity gammon

using up: half a gammon, some manky apples Continuing in the mission to make space in the freezers, Pete found a small rib of beef, and half a large gammon in the outside one yesterday.  The rib is for today’s dinner (yum), and I did this with the gammon: Put it in the slow cooker…

gammon

I’m sure I’ve mentioned it before, but we often buy a huge gammon from Costco, and cook it up for lunches.  I generally buy one that’s about twenty quid, put half in the freezer uncooked, and then cook the other half.  Then depending on what we’re doing, we might freeze a cooked quarter too. I…