Uh Oh Time For Beans and Cornbread Again!

Okay, so the Thanksgiving holiday is over and done, and this year no turkey!!! My mom baked a wonderful Petit Jean ham (15 pounds), and once all the carving was done she asked me if I had a pot big enough to cook it in (with beans of course!). Well, I did what all good foodies do---I lied and said yes. I mean, I can work this out, right?

So this morning, with the rain falling softly outside, and everything lovely and dark out, I got to work on that bone. Naturally, it was too long for my pot, but that wouldn't stop me. After trying the meat cleaver (didn't work), I just put that big boy in the pot with a good 1/3 of it sticking out and started boiling. I turned it often, so both ends would cook (and to keep the food spoilage police from my door), and once done, I stripped it so clean you would have thought buzzards had been on it.

With all those lovely chunks of ham floating around in the simmering broth, I poured in a bag of great northerns, and let it go. Ipod was set to shuffle, so all the while I listened to a veritable cornucopia of music, including Tears for Fears, Nickelback, Conway Twitty, Gary Allen, and Harry Chapin. Good company when cooking, I say.

I also say: Bring on the cornbread!!!!