When the ham gravy flows it's celebration time. It doesn't seem to matter who's in the house at the time, family, guests, you name it - I find people eating it on all sorts of weird things in vast quantities - even discovered one of my kids drinking it from a glass.
Let me tell you what ham gravy tastes like - liquid bacon. Anything you can imagine that tastes good with bacon will taste divine with ham gravy. The possibilities are endless.
There are a few rules though if you really want to try it.
1. It has to come from drippings from a smoked ham - NOT a honey cured ham.
2. Do NOT glaze the ham. Just roast it in all its smoky pulchritudinous glory. (Trust me, if you haven't had ham this way you haven't lived!)
3. Make the gravy as a milk gravy not a water gravy.
4. If you have even the remotest opportunity to get a pig (with all its wondrous cuts) from an all natural or organic farmer - take it! You will never want to eat that nasty store bought pork again! (What do they DO to that stuff???????) Ham (yum yum!), bacon, sausage, pork loin, pork chops etc. all tastes so amazing eaten the way it was intended - from a person who knows what to feed a hog. Oh yeah.
5. Pour so much gravy on your food you can no longer see it and you have to use a bowl. (See picture above.)
6. Eat leftovers for the next two weeks. The drippings make so much gravy you'll be swimming in it (or at least your food will be).
You can thank me for the introduction of a food that is akin to manna from heaven or the ambrosia of the gods, however you choose to look at it.
If you're a vegetarian... well then... I guess this is just plain awkward isn't it?
