Summer is here. Time for sitting on the deck, sipping libations. Enjoying the heat. I came up with this simple recipe on a whim… Actually on mothers day. Start with a nice bone-in ham if you are aiming for 6:00 pm supper…. Its a good idea to start getting this going around 2:00. But don’t let that scare you off. This is a start and leave, check whenever you run out of beer or your pina colada glass runs dry kind of BBQ.
Take your ham. I usually buy mine from Costco, they sell a really nice smoked ham. Unwrap from the plastic and remove the plastic plug in the centre of the bone (should I really have to include this step…?) Wash it well in the sink under cold water. Take a knife and score it in a checkerboard pattern across the top, this helps hold onto the glaze as you pour it over. The grid lines should be approx 1/2″ apart. Warm up your BBQ To barely more than 200 to 250°. Sugar burns at around 260° so the goal is to keep the heat under 250°. On a 4 burner unit, only light 1/2 of the burners. In order to keep this nice and moist, we will be cooking it indirectly. So for example, the left side will be the heat and the right side will be meat. Left heat, right meat…say it 10 times fast.
Above the heat set a metal pan or tin pie plate full of water, ensure when you go for a refill of your drink, give the ham a drink too. Fill a smoker box full of apple chips, soak the chips for 20 minutes in water. Set the smoker box over the heat. Set the ham on the cool side of the grill on top of a heat proof baking sheet or piece of tin foil. Close the lid. SOCIABLES!
After your next bathroom break, mix up the glaze. Wash hands first. … You would be surprised.
In a medium bowl mix:
1 tsp sea salt
1 cup honey (melted in microwave for a minute or so)
1/2 cup maple syrup
peel and smash 4 or 5 cloves of garlic
1 tbsp Chipotle powder
1/2 tsp black pepper
Whisk it all up.
With your basting brush, every time you lose at lawn darts or remember to, brush the glaze over the ham. When 6:00 rolls around. Pull it off and carve away. Its easy,moist, so full of flavour and makes a great ham sandwich the next day. If your father-in-law has much negative to say about this one, feel free to start a Water fight. 😜
Fūde Incorporated 