Crock Pot Honey Mustard Ham Recipe

Make this simple recipe for a gorgeous glazed ham in your slow cooker, and have time to enjoy your company and prepare the rest of the meal. Crock pot honey mustard ham is a simple recipe that brings out the flavor of sweet and salty ham to perfection. A bone-in ham will have more flavor than boneless ham; it's the same for chicken and steak. One nice advantage to using a bone-in ham is that you have the ham bone when the meat is removed. Use it to make split pea soup for a wonderful second dinner that's practically freeThe combination of brown sugar, mustard, and honey forms a glaze on the ham as it cooks. And the slow cooker environment is perfect for making ham that is very tender and moist. Most ham seems to dry out in the oven; that won't happen in the crockpotIf you like, you can stud the ham with whole cloves before you add the glaze. Just push the cloves gently but firmly into the meat, pointed side down. For a ham of this size, about 24 cloves are the right amount. This is a great job for the kids on easter morning. This ham must be served with scalloped potatoes of some sort. One of our favorites, potatoes grand mere, is very simple to make, very rich, and just bakes in the oven during the last hour the ham is cooking. Add a gelatin salad or two, a nice tossed green salad, and some fluffy and light dinner rolls for a wonderful dinner. When the dinner is over, refrigerate any leftover ham promptly. Use it to make more dinners; leftover ham is a great thing to have on hand. Enjoy every bite.