Brown Sugar Glazed Ham

One of my favorite things to eat on the planet is this Brown Sugar Glazed Ham. Served with scalloped potatoes, it’s amazing.

A couple of weeks ago, I found myself tasked with making a Sunday night dinner for family who was visiting us.  My Mom has to avoid gluten, so I needed to come up with something that was gluten-free.  And I needed a meal that would feed us for a couple of days.  Ham was the obvious answer as it would feed us a couple of meals, and I’d probably be able to get a soup out of it after that. Brown Sugar Glazed Ham sounded amazing to me!

I remembered a recipe for Brown Sugar Glazed ham that I had spotted in one of my new cookbooks:  Effortless Entertaining Cookbook: 80 Recipes That Will Impress Your Guests Without Stress by Meredith Steele.  I’m always entertaining friends and family in our home, so I’m a sucker for cookbooks that focus on entertaining.  This book is divided into entertaining by season.  There are suggested menus: Let’s Brunch, Dinner With Friends, Fiesta Taco Bar, Autumn Beer Dinner, Winter Harvest and more.  And there are beautiful photographs to accompany every recipe.

I’ve bookmarked several recipes to try:  Apricot- Curry Chicken Sandwiches, Bee’s Knees Cocktail, IPA Quick Pickle Green Beans, 10-Minute Garlic and Rosemary Roasted Salmon, Dried Cherry and Sage Goat Cheese, Whisky Caramel Brownies, Make-Ahead Parmesan Risotto, Roasted Cauliflower and Pomegranate Farro and Winter Pimm’s Punch.  There are so many good, easy-but-impressive recipes in this book for sharing with guests.

I didn’t have any luck finding a gluten-free ham at my local market, so I called Whole Foods and had success there.  It wasn’t a cheap ham, but it was one of the most beautiful, delicious spiral hams I have ever eaten. I’ll be getting my ham at Whole Foods from now on!

I love that this recipe is so incredibly easy to make.  The ham is simply roasted in the oven without anything covering it.  A sweet glaze is brushed on toward the end of baking.  And it turns out so perfect!

This recipe for Brown Sugar Glazed Ham is exactly what I needed to make entertaining easy.  I don’t like to feel overwhelmed in the kitchen when I have a lot of relatives milling about the house.  I’d rather prepare a stress-free dinner and have time for visiting instead.  We all loved this ham!