I have to have my ham!! I'd rather have that than turkey. :) and submitted this recipe, but here it is for others who may enjoy it.

Honey Baked Ham

Honey Baked Ham

1 10-pound ham

Cover with foil and bake about 1-1/2 hours in a 350 degree oven. Remove ham from oven and baste with honey glaze (recipe follows) after 45 minutes of baking. Return ham to oven for another 40 minutes.

Honey Glaze
1/4 cup cornstarch
1 cup water
1quart pineapple juice
1 quart honey
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp. ground cloves
1 tsp. cinnamon
6-8 slices of pineapple

Dissolve cornstarch in water. Bring juice, honey, sugar, and spices to a gentle boil. pour cornstarch into boiling mixture and stir until thickened.

To garnish, lay sliced pineapple on ham. Pour honey glaze over garnished ham and heat in 300 degree oven for 10-15 minutes. Yield: 20-25 servings. Enjoy!!

omg - why not just go to Honey Baked Ham by Pets & People - that's my tradition and it's YUMMY :)

Put the ham in a crock pot, season, and pour Coca cola over it and cover. Turn on low that morning and by the afternoon the ham will be delicious - and it's so easy.

You can also add pineapple, honey or any other flavoring you wish - the crock pot is the way to go.

the best ham i ever made (wink wink) was a spiral sliced one i got at the grocery store-the sister in law that can cook EVERYTHING was so impressed when i took it out of my oven! hehe

Those are good SGP, but pricey. Saves a lot of time though. :)

You can get a ham at your friendly neighborhood Wally World or grocer that has the honey glazin stuff along with instructions on how to cook it. Pretty simple.

The holidays are challenge enough...help the local economy and buy the ham already cooked and sliced.

My family does a big seafood broil on Thanksgiving...forget the birds and the pigs.

Someone else I was chatting with today mentioned "turducken." Any idea where I can find that in or around Statesboro?
And, thank you all for your comments so far, by the way. I really appreciate your help. :-)

I cant believe that at your age ,you have to ask how to cook a ham.

I think the purpose of this was a recipe contest or was it? Buying it already made is not a contest, especially for those homemakers who like to say I made it myself. Good home cookin' can't be bought...taste wise most times and price wise. Although I haven't tasted Wal Mart's hams or priced them. Just a thought here.

Sigh...Ness, Ness.. you MAKE turducken.

Get a hen, a smallish one like a Cornish Game Hen. Stuff it up the butt of a duck. You can add stuffing with the hen (stuff the hen first by the way).
Then stuff the duck stuffed with the hen stuffed with stuffing up a big ol'TURKEY's butt. Add stuffing enough to fill the turkey bird if the stuffed duck ain't enough.

Put the turkey in a baking bag and add all those spices you included in the stuffing. Put it in the oven and bake until its done. Slow... don't wanna undercook the quacker or burn the gobbler and we SURE don't wanna raw clucker, do we?

Serve it all up with the fixin's, including plenty of dressing,which is simply stuffing that hasn't been stuffed yet.

What do you call a turkey stuffed with a ham? Anybody ever done that?

Stuff a ham with pineapple slices. MMMMMMMM then dribble it with coconut rum.

My mom spends hours & hours cooking for us - she likes it. I however am not too proud to bring a Pricey, Great Tasting, Honey Baked Ham to dinner so I can enjoy the time with my family and not sweating over a hot stove or worried if it tastes good or not. I wasn't blessed with the martha stewart gene, so I gladly throw money at the problem :)

That's one way of looking at it. My husband and I eat meagerly all year because I am simply too tired to cook big meals (plus if sticks around long after the leftovers are gone...on our hips.:) I do love to cook. Thank goodness I only have to do the BIG cooking once a year. :)

Turducken is what is wrong with America. The excess of it all. Southgapassion... have you seen WHATEVER MARTHA?...you would love it, if you have not seen it. It is Martha Stewart's daughter and friend commenting on Martha's shows. She knows that she will never be like her mother and does not even pretend to try. I personally would NEVER spend $8.00 a pound for a Honey Baked Ham. I would put the money I saved by buying one for $1.19 a pound and baking it, in the bank for my kid's college education. I have gotten gift certificates for them and YEA they are nice but....My son makes an really good ham injected with Jack Daniels. Each to his own. I think that this year I will use Scargo's recipe and it will only cost maybe $15.00.

It's Heavenly Ham, not Honey Baked Ham. :)

I have no "recipe," I just add what I think will taste good and cook according to weight. Turns out yummy every time.

I used honey baked because apparently we aren't supposed to use the business name. I was just being fair. No injurious thought intended from the lack of "entitlement." :)

By the way, it may seem like a lot of steps when you read the recipe, but once you've done it, you'll find that it's simple AND the accomplishment of doing it yourself makes it all the better. :)

Trailboss, how old do you think I am? (wink, wink)
Seriously, I think the reason I've never cooked a ham is, like I said, I'm more of a turkey gal. My mom never made it, and I never really had a reason to learn how (I do make a mean turkey, though).

Frustratedmonkey, is that REALLY how you make turducken? Who knew? Thanks for the recipe, but I think I'll "go with what I know." That's a little too involved for me...

You guys are all great -- thank you so much for your good ideas. :-)

Have you ever tried frying a turkey. Those are pretty good too. :)

Turducken is no more "excessive" than a number of other recipes. If you are feeding many it is not excessive at all.

Yes, Ness, that is what turducken is. My uncle makes it often. Turkey stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a smaller hen.

Scargo, frustratedmonkey, and others: Why not submit these ideas into the contest?

www.statesboroherald.com, click on "Contests" then "Festive Fun."

Oops...I did. Did you not get it? I'll do it again if you did not.

Anyone have any ideas for a good turkey? We normally fry one every year but with the cost of the oil (that we never use again) we decide to bake one. In the past, when I bake them they are dry and don't have a lot of good flavor...can you inject a turkey if you are baking it? We inject them with seasoning when we fry them and put rub on them.

I would suggest brining the turkey before you bake it - there are many ways to do this (try a Google search with keywords "turkey brine"). I have also found that roasting the turkey for the first 30 minutes or so at a higher temperature to "brown" it, then bringing down the oven temp for the remainder of the bake time tends to seal in the juices, and keeps the turkey from drying out.

My hubby has fried turkeys in the past - a fried turkey is NUMMERS!!!!!! :P''' (drooling) Yes, Heavenly Ham :) It's the statesboro version of Honey Baked Ham ;) still good and feeds a family of 5 ALL week after thanksgiving!!

See.. sadly Ness, it seems that none of us want to enter the contest! LOL!!Maybe we don't see our recipes as that inviting... or maybe we're just too busy blogging to enter. :-)

Either way.... if you use whole cloves and actually stick them into the ham, it is supposed to infuse the clove into the meat. MY grandmother taught me that one, and she made THE BEST ham ever. :-)

Sweet potatoes go great with ham as a side dish. :-)

I did enter mine on the other site. Hope you got it. :)