* Ham should be one of the precooked hams. Not one of the specialty cured or canned hams. Just the standard bone in ham in the meat counter.
1.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
2.
Place ham, fat side down, in a shallow baking pan.
3.
Pour coke into pan until it is 1/2-inch deep. Bake 2 to 3 hours, or until ham can be easily pierced with a fork, basting with the Coca-Cola every 15 to 20 minutes. (Center of ham will read 140 degrees F on a meat thermometer when properly cooked.) Remove ham from the pan Combine sugar, mustard, and enough Coke to form a thick paste. Place ham on roasting rack in pan and pat all over with the paste. Arrange cloves and pineapple rings on top and return to over.
4.
Add remaining coke to the bottom of the pan.
5.
Increase the temperature to 375 degrees F. and bake the ham 45 minutes longer, basting every 20 to 15 minutes until sugar-mustard paste has melted to a dark glaze. Let stand at room temperature 30 minutes before slicing.
Cha’s yummy breakfast pie
6 large eggs
½ cup heavy cream
1/4 cup milk, 1 percent skim which ever you prefer.
2 cups frozen hash browns
lots of butter
½ cup sliced onions
a good handful of fresh spinach
1 sliced ripe tomato
½ cups sliced artichokes
Whip eggs and cream and milk together. Send aside.
In large skillet melt about 2 tablespoons of butter and add hash browns. Stir fry until soft but not browned. Set aside. Add more butter to skillet and sauté onions until soft. Set aside. Add more butter and sauté spinach. Ok, now all the ingredients are prepared this is what we do next.
Spray nice big pie plate with cooking spray. Take your hash browns and line the pie plate like a crust, making sure you get the bottom even and the side almost to the top. When your done doing this spread the spinach onions and tomatoes and artichokes evenly on the bottom, the add the egg mixture. Bake at 375 for about 45 minutes or until toothpick come out clean. You can also add cheese of your choice, I have used seasoned feta before and it is tasty. Serve with some muffins or fresh fruit and you have an easy breakfast dish that is also awesome cold for lunch! Enjoy, cha
Cha’s baked French toast.
6 large eggs
1cup heavy cream
¼ cup Baileys Irish cream
¼ cup kahluah
Panettone or Stollen bread., a good raisin bread will work.
Whip eggs and cream and the sprits! Slice bread into slices about ½ inch thick or you can also cut into large cubes. Spray a deep baking dish with non stick spray, then dip slices of bread into egg mixture and lay in baking dish. Continue to do this with all your bread and then pour the remaining egg mixture on top. Cover and put in fridge for at least an hour or overnight if you have the time. Bake at 375 until top is brown and toothpick comes out clean. Serve with yummy fruit, or maple syrup. Enjoy cha
Pollo Borracho! (drunk chicken)
I good size baking chicken, the bigger and fatter the better.
1 can beer.
Onion, celery, orange, apple…whatever you have in the fridge that we can put in his cavity for additional flavors.
Olive oil
Cha drunk chicken rub below.
1 potato
ok, get your bird and give him a bath. Wash him up like your sending him to the prom! Inside and out. Pat him dry and let him chill a second or two.
In the meantime put together your cha drunk chicken rub.
When your done with that, take the oilive oil and rub that bird down with it. I don’t like to use butter cuz butter burns too fast, so I like olive oil. After you have lathered him down get the rub and rub it on ever part of his little body. When that is done stick him on the beer can that has half of a beer left in it cuz you drank the other half! Make sure he is stable and then add the onion, celery, orange, in his cavity. Then stick a potato in his neck so the steam and flavors don’t escape. Place him on baking pan and either bbq him or bake him in the oven. Either way about 225 degrees for a few hours should do it. Enjoy cha
Cha drunk chicken rub.
½ teaspoon cumin
3 teaspoon garlic salt
3 teaspoon onion powder
3 teaspoon red chile powder
1 teaspoon dried cilantro
½ teaspoon salt
mix all together. You can store in a jar or zip lock for your next drunk chicken!
