December 29, 2020 Lunch – PPI Chicken Noodle Soup  Dinner – Baked Ham and Caramelized White Sweet Potatoes and Steamed snow peas

I awakened at 8:00 and worked until 10:00 when I showered and dressed and made a bowl of granola, yogurt, milk, and blueberries for an 11:00 Zoom board meeting.  When the meeting ended at 1:40 I heated the PPI Chicken Noodle Soup I made yesterday and added some water, a chopped baby Bok Choy, and a large Mexican green onion. 

At 4:00 I put the 11 pound ham on a rack in the large blue roasting pan with about ¼ inch of water under the rack in the oven at 350 degrees and went into a two hour conference with a client.

Suzette came home at 5:30 with the groceries she had bought at Smith’s that included four white sweet potatoes.

She scored the Ham and glazed it with a maple syrup and mustard glaze and baked the sweet potatoes in the oven with the ham for about 45 minutes until tender.  She removed the sweet potatoes and peel and cut them into wedges and sautéed the wedges in butter and then sprinkled light brown sugar on them in the skillet after they began to brown.

At about 6:30 she took the ham out of the oven and let it rest.

She then de stemmed a handful of snow peas and steamed them..

When my meeting ended at 6:45, I sliced a few slices of ham and Suzette fetched a bottle of Cotes Du Rhone Ferme Julien rose produced by Famille Perrin from the garage and poured glasses and plated our dinner with steamed snow peas, candied sweet potatoes and baked ham.

It was just another great meal among the many we have prepared this week.  It almost seems like preparing Mother’s grand Thanksgiving Dinner with a difference dinner, somehow raised the bar of excellence in menu planning and execution and we loved booking at the higher level of ingredients and prep as you will in the next two days’ meals.

After dinner I butchered the ham, putting the overlooked edge pieces and the shank bone in one bag and all the good pieces f ham in another bag.

After dinner we watched a Christmas movie and went to bed.

Bon Appetit