Honey-Mustard Glazed Ham, so easy, so yummy.
Ingredients: bone-in smoked ham, or picnic
1/2 drinking glass full of honey
1 bottle of spicy, stone ground mustard
3 eating style tbs. water
a dash of ground cloves
Fire up the charcoal grill with all of the coals on one side, or light one burner of your gas grill. Make deep sliced int the top and sides of the ham, from front to back, about half the size of your little finger apart.
Combine the honey, water and cloves. Add a tsp or so of the mustard. Stir until well combined and taste. add more mustard, stir and taste. Repeat until you get that just right balance of sweet and sour. This should be a thin syrup consistency. Add more water as required
Brush the ham all over with the honey glaze, working it between the ham slices. Place the ham on the cool side of the grill, with a drip pan filled half way with water underneath it. Cook at a grill temp of 175 degrees C. for 20 minutes. Brush with more glaze. Cook for 40 minutes more, brushing with glaze every ten minutes. Remove from the grill to a platter, and brush once more with the glaze.
Serve with roasted potato, or sweet potato, and Yorkshire Pudding, filled with current jelly.
This same glaze will work with other meats either grilled or baked. Great candidates are chicken, duck, turkey, lamb, and pork. I wouldn't use it on beef or goose. It would also be good on swordfish, sole, red snapper, trout, and other mild fish. i think it would go well with scallops.
Another great honey based sauce that will work with all of the above is a simple combination of honey, lime, and chili powder.and glace steamed carrots with it. Add honey-butter to mashed swede (neep, rutabaga), with a little pepper.
Foe another great use of honey, ,oix it with a little butter
Hope these give you ideas.
Seeeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North