Supper was delicious! This yummy one-dish meal is courtesy of Just Casserole Recipes. I made a couple of adjustments, of course. Sometimes I can’t leave well enough alone LOL
Ingredients:
One 1-lb. ham slice, bone-in and cooked
1 huge sweet potato, peeled and sliced 1/4 inch thick
1 huge russet potato, peeled and sliced 1/4 inch thick
3 red apples, unpeeled and sliced (I used Gala apples)
3/4 cup hot water (I used it hot from the faucet)
cinnamon sugar
butter
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
I had two HUGE potatoes and such pretty apples.
The recipe instructions said to brown the ham before placing into a baking dish; me, I was feeling lazy and decided that I didn’t care if my ham slice was brown or not, so into the sprayed 9×13 casserole dish it went. I topped the ham with the potatoes and apples, sprinkled on cinnamon sugar (didn’t measure, just decided when it looked like enough), then put a few pats of butter over the whole thing.
Pour the hot water over the whole thing and then covered it with foil – sprayed with Pam so that the apples and potatoes wouldn’t stick to the foil.
I sprayed my foil with PAM. Important note: do it over the sink, so that you don’t get PAM on the floor and slip!
Pop into the oven for 45 minutes.
At the end of the 45 minutes, I used my baster to remove most of the liquid; there was a LOT. Poke the potatoes with a fork to be certain that they’re pretty much done.
Looks like more than 3/4 cup
Return uncovered dish to oven for 15 more minutes. Remove dish at the end of the 15 minutes, scoop out the potatoes and apples; lightly cover them with the foil you baked them with, so that they stay hot.
Plate the ham and allow it to rest for 5 minutes.
Yum – it looks good, even though I didn’t brown it. Plus, I saved having to wash a skillet: bonus points for me!
I found some really soft and fresh Hawaiian rolls at the grocery store:
Supper was delicious.
On a side-note, I did something that I haven’t done in a LONG TIME: sliced my thumb open a bit. I was slicing my sweet potatoes and had a thick piece that I wanted to cut in half. Well, it was too thin for me to hold safely but I tried anyway….and…
Ouch!
Needless to say, that piece of potato got tossed into the trash. I called my teen son upstairs to help me; he had to grab the band-aids while I applied pressure to the cut, and then he put the band-aid on for me. Thankfully it was my left thumb and I’m right handed so I could finish making supper.
Morale of this mini-story: if it seems to be awkward to hold and slice, DON’T try it! It’s not worth slicing your thumb up.
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