Our Holiday ham dinner!

Our signature holiday ham dinner is served at our house for Christmas,  and for Easter, but this year we are adding it to the feast of the Epiphany, see it HERE. It is fairly easy (perfect for me 😏) and delicious! I personally love to make it! But my kids helped me prepare it this time around.

The main course is glazed ham with pineapple and cherries accompanied white rice, (it never fails in a Colombian family dinner) Russian potato salad, devil eggs, and fried plantains. Let me show you how we prepare it:

first...

THE HAM

INGREDIENTS

• Fully cooked semi-boneless ham 
• 1 fresh/can of pineapple slices
• Maraschino cherries
• Ham glaze (I used Boars head brown sugar and spice)
• toothpicks

Step 1.

Pour the brown sugar glaze over the ham 

Step 2.

Bathe the ham in pineapple and cherry juice to ensure moisture. Here, you begin to decorate the ham by securing the pineapple slices and cherries with toothpicks throughout.

Step 3.

Preheat the oven to 325° and cook each pound for 20 minutes! 

Step 4.

All done! now serve and place in a bed of parsley with some cherries for decoration!

RUSSIAN POTATO SALAD

INGREDIENTS

• 1 Bag of potatoes (we used Idaho)
• 1 lb of Sweet peas
• Mayonnaise
• 1/2 Lemon
• Parsley

STEP 1.

Peel the potatoes and dice them.

Popsicle peels and dices the potatoes!

STEP 2.

Boil the potatoes and peas separately.

STEP 3.

Mix the boiled potatoes and peas with the mayo.

STEP 4.

Lastly, squeeze the half of a lemon into the mix and use a bit of parsley to decorate. All done here!

DEVIL EGGS

INGREDIENTS

• 1 dozen eggs
• Mayonnaise
• Yellow mustard
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Ziploc bag

STEP 1.

Boil the eggs for about 8 minutes, when done peel them and cut them in half. Then, proceed to remove the yolk in a separate bowl.

Miss Poppins tackles the devil eggs like a pro!

STEP 2.

Mix the yolk with a spoonful of mayo and mustard until creamy. Then add salt and pepper to taste.

 STEP 3.

Use the Ziploc bag to pour the yolk mix onto the eggs. Put all the yolk mix inside the bag, when done, cut a small corner of the bag and begin filling the eggs. That's all! Your devil eggs are ready to serve!

Her favorite part!

WHITE RICE

INGREDIENTS

(Serves 6)

• 3 cups of rice
•  6 cups of water
• 2 TBSP olive oil
• 1/2 tsp salt 
• 1/2 tsp of garlic powder or minced garlic

STEP 1.

Mix the oil, salt, and garlic in the rice cooker.

STEP 2.

Pour the rice and the water.

Agent 007 reaches out for the rice!

STEP 3.

Set the rice cooker on -white rice- setting and you are done!

That is it! we also add to our meal fried plantains, but they are an easy item all you do is slice them and fry them; our choice is always ripe plantains with this ham because of its sweetness, it just goes right together.

I am open to try other foods in the future, but for now, this one is winning the heart of my family, we are looking forward to Easter to do it all over again 😉

Thanks for reading!