From Denny: Chef Paul Deen always laughs and has fun whenever she cooks. In this video her husband is helping on The Today Show kitchen set, preparing the cola basted ham. It's a traditional ham that Paul makes at her restaurant every year at Thanksgiving as it is a Southern favorite.
Basically, all you have to do is get a cooked ham, pour cola on it, stud it with whole cloves and pineapple slices (anchor with toothpicks), then place brown sugar on top and bake. Make sure to use your baster brush while it's baking to mop up the cola and brown sugar as it mixes with the ham fat and re-baste the ham. Talk about both simple to make and very delicious. It's no wonder this simple recipe has survived the test of time! :)
Paula's recipe for a cranberry and cream cheese sauce is a beautiful presentation as it is a layered look of red and white for the holidays. Adding the cream cheese also tones down the tartness of the cranberry taste.
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Cola-Basted Ham
From: Paula Deen
Makes: 20 to 30 servings
Ingredients:
1 18-pound cured ham
2 (12-ounce) cans cola
Canned pineapple rings
Brown sugar
Maraschino cherries
Cloves
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
Place ham in a shallow roasting pan. Baste the ham with cola. Using toothpicks, stick some pineapple rings on the ham, about 4 or 5 rings.
Sprinkle some brown sugar on the rings. With toothpicks, place a cherry in each pineapple ring hole and then stick some cloves in the rings. Cover the ham with foil. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes per pound of ham, or until the ham reaches an internal temperature of 140 degrees F. Baste with cola about every 30 minutes during cooking.
Mrs. Hoggle's stuffed cranberry sauce
From: Chef Paula Deen
Makes: 4 to 6 servings
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
1 16-ounce can jellied cranberry sauce, chilled
1/4 to 1/2 cup chopped pecans
Directions:
Mix cream cheese and mayonnaise until creamy — it needs to be spreadable.
Add pecans and mix well. Slice cranberry sauce in 1/4-inch rounds and spread cream cheese mixture on one round and place another round on top, sandwich style. Keep in fridge until time to serve.
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