Contest Entry - Deviled ham and eggs.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

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[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

Actually, I like adding liver spread to spaghetti sauce. It gives it a meatier flavor. So I wouldn't discount this deviled ham in sauces idea.

Feel free to find the other uses suspect.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Hmm, are you talking home made or purchased spaghetti sauce?

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

Store-bought ones, but the ones without meat that are basically tomato sauce with probably too much sugar in them.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Makes sense. When I make ours, I use three kinds of meat in it.

[progbear.livejournal.com]

Well, a deviled ham sandwich was an important ingredient of my elementary school bag lunch for many years. I certainly never had one with jelly or apple butter, though!

I agree that spaghetti, macaroni and scrambled eggs seem like valid uses to try.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

It's been so long since I've had it, I need to get a can and taste it again. I know pork and apples go wonderfully together and we had pork and grapes this past week, so I suppose it is possible that it's yummy.

[progbear.livejournal.com]

It seems as though none of us has had any deviled ham for a score of ages. Is that our task for the week? Go to the store and buy some?

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

You know, I looked in three different stores yesterday and couldn't find it. Granted one is very small and family run, the other was TJ's, but I would have thought Safeway would carry it. And the hunt is on!

[cheesygirl.livejournal.com]

This ad got me thinking about when my mother would pack picnic foods to take on long family trips---she always included little cans of potted meat and deviled ham, and I always ate them, but that was well over 30 years ago and I can't really remember what they tasted like! So this weekend I bought a can at Kroger and I'm going to give it a try this week. I had to scan the shelves carefully to find it, it was just a few cans off to the side in the area where Vienna sausages and Spam and other skeeeery processed meats are. ;D (For the record I love Spam!)

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Love your icon!

Please let us know how it tastes. Did it take you right back to when you were a kid? I remember devilled ham as a special treat in my lunch box. I think usually it was PB & J for me.

[cheesygirl.livejournal.com]

OK, so I ate the deviled ham on a sandwich last night. It was VERY salty, and the texture was a bit wetter than I would have liked, but the flavor wasn't bad. Don't know that I'd buy it again, though. I'd rather have regular ham or Spam. I think the enjoyment when I was a kid was more about being on a trip than it was the quality of the food. :P

My kitty Jack (icon) got very excited when I opened the can. It did look a bit like Fancy Feast! He jumped up on the counter and started licking the lid before I could stop him. Jack gives it two non-existent kitty thumbs up.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the report. I also got some deviled ham and gave it a try. We try to maintain a low-sodium diet and *WOW* very salty. I ended up tipping the can down the disposal. Wasting food usually isn't an alternative, but I knew we wouldn't eat it.

Jack sounds like a card. I made sure I fed mine first before trying the experiment.

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

I actually like deviled ham, though I haven't had any for years and years. Those suggestions sound to me as if they might be worth trying. I'm not too sure about putting it on a sandwich with apple butter, but I could see it going well with the right kind of jelly.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Likewise, gosh, not since junior high. I should check it out one of these days. I remember sort of liking it.

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

I just wonder if it's one of those things where I'll try it again and wonder how on earth I ever ate it when I was younger.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

It will be great if you can give us a report. I made a note to myself to pick some up when I shop this morning. Then we can compare notes!

[cuddyclothes.livejournal.com]

I loved deviled ham!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I haven't had it in so long, I don't even really remember it.