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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7481l-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7481l-0-0"><span data-text="true">I bought a nice slice of ham at the grocery store yesterday, intending to fry it up for breakfast today. But then I got to thinking ... it's such a thick slice, it would be good to do something more festive with it than to just plop it on the griddle. So what I did was make a slice of "Christmas Ham." </span></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="83rh2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="83rh2-0-0"><span data-text="true">I garnished it with sliced pineapple, unsweetened tart cherries and whole cloves, drizzled it with agave syrup, then lightly dusted it with ground yellow mustard, cinnamon and ginger. I loosely covered it with foil and baked it in the oven for about a half-hour.</span></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ann09-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ann09-0-0"><span data-text="true">I reserved the remaining cherries, juice and pineapple juice and made a pureed reduction sauce to about one-half volume and thickened it with cornstarch.</span></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ru2h-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ru2h-0-0"><span data-text="true">I served it with succotash (one of my favorite side dishes) and boiled potatoes lightly creamed with butter.</span></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4f5hb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4f5hb-0-0"><span data-text="true">Dessert was a store-bought sugar-free pumpkin pie that was kinda lousy. It had an odd consistency, more like thick pudding, and a sharp aftertaste. Sugar-free fruit pies (apple, cherry, pineapple, lemon meringue and even southern-style pecan) are much more successful.</span></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7481l-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7481l-0-0"><span data-text="true">I bought a nice slice of ham at the grocery store yesterday, intending to fry it up for breakfast today. But then I got to thinking ... it's such a thick slice, it would be good to do something more festive with it than to just plop it on the griddle. So what I did was make a slice of "Christmas Ham." </span></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="83rh2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="83rh2-0-0"><span data-text="true">I garnished it with sliced pineapple, unsweetened tart cherries and whole cloves, drizzled it with agave syrup, then lightly dusted it with ground yellow mustard, cinnamon and ginger. I loosely covered it with foil and baked it in the oven for about a half-hour.</span></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ann09-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ann09-0-0"><span data-text="true">I reserved the remaining cherries, juice and pineapple juice and made a pureed reduction sauce to about one-half volume and thickened it with cornstarch.</span></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ru2h-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ru2h-0-0"><span data-text="true">I served it with succotash (one of my favorite side dishes) and boiled potatoes lightly creamed with butter.</span></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4f5hb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4f5hb-0-0"><span data-text="true">Dessert was a store-bought sugar-free pumpkin pie that was kinda lousy. It had an odd consistency, more like thick pudding, and a sharp aftertaste. Sugar-free fruit pies (apple, cherry, pineapple, lemon meringue and even southern-style pecan) are much more successful.</span></span></div>
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