Leftover Christmas Ham

Did everyone have a great holiday? I sure did! I spent Christmas day with family & friends, and had a great time.

After everyone went home, I was left with a large ham bone, with TONS of delicious meat still left. I knew immediately what I was going to make. Ham and Northern Beans! This recipe also works great with black eyed peas ( great if you keep up with the new year's tradition!)

I hesitate to even call this a recipe, because it's so simple! Simply rinse your beans(I used one pound Great Northern beans). Then add the beans, your ham bone to your crock pot, and cover with water. I added a generous amount of black cracked pepper, and just a tiny bit of  Lawry's seasoned salt. The ham is already pretty salty, so don't overdo it!

See all that meat? YUM!

I put my crock pot on high to start, for the first 3-4 hours, until the beans look like this:

At this point, the beans have almost doubled in size and soaked up a lot of the liquid, but they are still hard. So I turned the heat down to low, and continued cooking them for another 3-4 hours. If I were to cook these on a week day, while I'm at work, I would have put them on low all day, since they would be on for at least 12 hours.


Make sure you test a bean or two, to make sure they are tender, and then dig in!

Normally I will serve some cornbread to go with this meal, but I realized halfway through my bowl that I forgot to make any! I was so eager to dig in, and it was so good, that I barely missed it anyway.

Someone else made out like a king from this meal too:

This whole bone is for me??!