Earlier today I was trying to figure out what I might blog about tonight, and then out of nowhere I thought, “THE HAM! I NEED TO TELL THEM ABOUT THE HAM!”
Because remember how I’ve given away fifteen pounds of Petit Jean bacon a couple of times? Well, not too long ago Misty from Petit Jean Meats emailed me and said something along the lines of, “Hey – would you be interested in giving away a ham on your blog?”
And I said, “Oh, you know me – I don’t really care for meat.”
I KID.
What I really said was that I would love to give away a ham, and today, WHAT DO YOU KNOW, that is exactly what I’m doing.
It’s not just any ham, mind you. It’s fancy ham.
It’s half a smoked spiral ham – about 7-9 pounds (worth 65 American dollars) – and here’s the description from the Petit Jean website.
Every Ozark Hickory Smoked Spiral Sliced ham is individually hand -trimmed and seasoned with a blend of cloves, cinnamon, and other special ingredients before going into our old-fashioned smokehouse. Inside our smokehouse, each ham soaks up the smoke from smoldering hickory chips for at least 16 hours. The result is a ham that is fully cooked, moist and tender through and through, with a incredible smoky flavor that goes all the way to the bone.
Doesn’t that sound delicious? Petit Jean is a great company – and since I know for a fact that they do wondrous things with bacon, I have mighty high expectations for the ham.
I’m gonna leave this giveaway open until Friday morning about 10 central – and then I’ll close it and draw for a winner. Once I get the winner’s address, I’ll coordinate with Misty to see when and how long it will take to ship (that way you’ll know if it’s possible to have it at your house for Thanksgiving – or if it makes more sense to have it shipped closer to Christmas).
I’ll announce the winner here and on my blog Facebook page by noon on Friday.
So. To enter the giveaway, just answer one simple question: What dish do you look forward to the most on Thanksgiving day? Sweet potato casserole? Fried turkey (I see you, Louisiana)? Pecan pie?
Happy Ham, y’all!
This giveaway is now closed.
Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie!
I look forward to stuffing, mashed potatoes-gravy and sweets!:)
Dressing…yum!
Love me some cornbread dressing smothered in gravy with a scoop of cranberry sauce right on top!
Cornbread dressing for me– such a comfort food! Oh and pecan pie too!
Dressing
Pumpkin pie!
Dessert, Ham, Turkey, and Potatoes!
Chocolate cheesecake and ham…
Really and truly I just love having a reason to get together with family. Cheesy but true! The food’s not half bad either. ;)
Dressing (NO celery or onions-eww!) smothered in gravy!!
My crock pot dressing and my mother-in-laws homemade turkey giblet dressing.
I love the dressing!
I just cannot get enough dressing!!
It has to be all the yummy, creamy, delicious vegetable casseroles that only make their apperances on holiday!
Sweet potato casserole is my all time favorite! You know, the kind with the praline topping!
Tastes divine in the mouth with a bite of turkey and dressing, a little salty with the sweet!!!!
Cranberries. I’m all about the (real) cranberries. I’m the only person in my family who cares for them, but that’s OK — more for me!
Love all of it, but especially stuffing with gravy on top. My husband LOVES ham, hoping I can win it for him!
Cranberry sauce! Makes my mouth water just writing those two words!
My grandmother’s dressing!! I have many memories of Thanksgiving morning, watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade and smelling the delicious dressing cooking!
Everyone in my family can’t have Thanksgiving without Baked Pineapple. It’s a combo of butter, cheese, crumbled town house crackers and pineapple. We love it!
My Mississippi friend gave me a recipe for sweet potato casserole years ago. I can’t wait to make it again this year!
The stuffing, which I THOUGHT was a a secret family heirloom passed down for generations until last I discovered it had also been passed down to the back of the Pepperidge Farm stuffing cubes bag. Ha! Still delicious!
Green bean casserole made with canned green beans, cream of mushroom soup and those yummy fried onions. I don’t need fancy! That and my mom’s (now my sister’s since she took over Thanksgiving) sausage stuffing. I don’t really eat a ton of meat (I know, I know but other people will eat the ham) but I make an exception for her stuffing!
My moms cornbread dressing! So good!!! Also my mom’s candied sweet potatoes!
Mashed potatoes and gravy!
I most look forward to eating sweet potato casserole with marshmallows on top!
Dressing for sure!!!
What I really look forward to is trying to fit “just a little bit of everything” on that plate so I can try it all. Then go back for my favorites & pie.
Sweet Potato Casserole! Amen! My aunt’s chocolate pie is pretty awesome, too!
Chocolate Chess Pie and Sister Shubert rolls!!
Always look forward to pecan pie!!
I love Brusselsprouts. I make them in balsalmic dressing and dried cranberry sauce. And I love Broccoli and Rice, and Fresh Fruit salad. Okay, nevermind. I don’t have a favorite. I love it all. :)
It has been a long time since I spent Thanksgiving with family. My dad passed in 2007, and everyone just sort of fell apart after that. An aunt passed in 2008, another uncle in 2011, and another just this year.
The Christmas after my dad passed, I made a point of gathering family favorite recipes from all my cousins, my mom, aunt, uncles, siblings … and I put them together in a book with old family pictures of every branch of our family, whether they contributed or not to the recipe book, and made it available so everyone could buy their own copy.
So my favorite foods for Thanksgiving are just about anything from that book, but especially my dad’s chocolate pecan pie made with his mother’s pie crust recipe.
It makes it feel like there is still family at the table.
Aww. I hope you have a Blessed Thanksgiving while sharing the memories in the book you put together.
I love pumpkin pie with real whipped cream! Wash that down with a hot mug of coffee (with Kahlua of course) and you have a perfect ending to Thanksgiving.
Kim J
My mom’s dressing… with homegrown sage. Total yum.
I love my Aunt Audrey’s Mac and Cheese – the BEST!
dressing with gravy.
I love sweet potato casserole and mashed potatoes!
why the cornbread dressing, of course – that I make! :)
Mashed potatoes!
I most look forward to my greataunts fried apple pies……..nothing better. She is 90 and still baking strong!
Sweet potato casserole…yummy!
OK, seriously, ham is my favorite. I much prefer it to turkey. But besides that, my Mama’s homemade noodles in gravy, which I continue to make in her honor. They make Thanksgiving for me:-)
Stuffing – from my Mother’s recipe :-)
you had me at sweet potato! :-)
My mama’s cornbread dressing is enough for me on Thanksgiving (and Christmas.) Slap some cranberry sauce (homemade or canned, it doesn’t matter) on there and you’ve got meals for days.
Pie. Pie. Pie. Pumpkin. Pecan. Apple. Chocolate. It does not matter what kind!
Dressing. Oh, the cornbread dressing. Keep the turkey, but give me the dressing. Makes me hungry just thinking about it. A close second would be the brown sugar-laden sweet potato casserole. Oh yeah. Come to mama.
Ohh, I love hashbrown casserole and pecan pie!
I am all about my love of corn casserole. It is my favorite!!!
My mother made a casserole called Asparagus Supreme. It is the epitome of Holiday dishes for me! AND even better– it is GREAT with ham or turkey!! I hope we all enjoy a very thankful and happy Thanksgiving!!
I look forward to dressing and sweet potato casserole! YUM!!
Since we are hosting thanksgiving this year at our house, my husband is frying that turkey and I can’t wait! I can just taste it now! Hey, but we show no prejudice toward ham around here! The more meat, the merrier!
My mil makes THE BEST dressing!! It’s always moist and not too strong on the sage (I’m not a fan).
Dressing. YUM!
It’s a three way tie: green bean casserole, pecan pie and cranberry fluff (which I’ve never heard of anyone outside our family eating. But the recipe doss exist in an old tattered church cookbook so someone has tried it?!)
Dressing, dressing, dressing, DRESSING!!!!!!!!!!!! And some buttermilk pie on the side :)
I look forward to pecan pie!
Stuffing!
Dressing and gravy!!!!!
I love pumpkin pie!
I love the turkey.
Mashed potatoes and gravy – multiple helpings :)
I’m excited for everything! But I cant wait for the yummy scalloped potatoes!
Cornbread dressing (like my mother & grandmother made) with giblet gravy & cranberry sauce–the star of our Thanksgiving meal!
Sweet potato casserole! And I would drive to Morrilton to get it to have it in time for Thanksgiving!! I love me some PJ Ham!
And Ms. Sophie, you need to try PJ hot dogs as well. Cooked on a grill, microwave or in a black skillet with butter, any way you fix them they are wonderful!!
Sweet potato casserole!! And not the blasphemous kind with marshmallows on top. The horror. No, the glorious brown sugar, butter, and pecan topping. I can just taste it…
It’s the desserts…all of them!
Dressing!
My grandma makes an apple spice cake “iced” with homemade apple butter for every holiday. Pieces of this cake are hidden and coveted from Thanksgiving to Christmas.
Stuffing, it has to be the suffing!
Dressing! My mother’s blessed dressing! Yum.
Party Potatoes and Ding Dong Cake. But I love it all!!!
My momma’s dressing!! Is is so good!!
Stuffing balls
Homemade noodles! a very traditional side in our family–yum!
Homemade Rolls. Grandma’s, then aunts, and now I make them and still love them!
Alas, since finding i have celiac disease, I don’t get to eat them, but the smell and seeing the family enjoy them is almost as good.
Seriously, I kid. But if I just keep saying that to myself, maybe I’ll believe it.
I love me some rolls!
I love dressing! Smother it in turkey gravy and you’ve got a plate full of deliciousness!!
Green bean casserole!
Dressing!!
My mother in laws cornbread stuffing. She sent me the recipe a few years ago by writing me a letter. She never measures anything so she just wrote out how she does it. The recipe is saved and has been used. It is wonderful!
I love the turkey and ham sandwiches made from the leftovers
My Grammy’s homemade dressing!
Dressing! We don’t say stuffing in Arkansas!
Sweet potato casserole….way my favorite…and then pumpkin pie.
I look forward to the summer corn succatash…oh it’s so good! The buttery goodness! Yum,yum,yum!
So, you just want me to pick ONE dish I’m most looking forward to? Come on, it’s THANKSGIVING!!! I want it ALL! I thought that was the point! Besides turkey and ham which I do have a few other times of year besides the Thanks and Giving day, I never even think about making the other dishes. Why is that? So, I’m most looking forward to the dressing, the broccoli casserole, the sweet potato casserole, some jello “salad” (genius to call a dessert salad!), and the desserts (all except anything apple or pumpkin–yes, I do see the irony!) Hope you have a blessed and wonderful Turkey (and Ham) Day!
Hmmmm….probably fried turkey AND dressing. Can’t wait!
Definitely caramel cake! It is heavenly!
Dressing!!!
cornbread dressing with cranberry. YUM!!
The Dressing!!! All about the dressing!
Leftovers! Thank you, Sophie!
My Mom’s homemade rolls!! This recipe was passed down to me from my mom, who’s been gone for 13 years now, and we always make them for all the holidays and special celebrations
It’s a toss up between the dressing and the sweet potato casserole!
Bring on the dressing- It’s my favoritest ever!
The Ham!! It is really my favorite. If I had to choose a side it would be the anything with sweet potatoes!
Mashed Potatoes and stuffing :)