"The Ham Bone's Connected to the Soup Bone."

mmmmmmmm Ham! Good ol' salty ham. Sundays, holidays, any day! Paired with gooey scalloped potatoes and honey garlic baked carrots....oh my, I'm hungry! I asked myself how a meal could possibly get any better? I answer- Soup. That's how!

 If you think you don't like ham or you've had ham that is boring and too chewy you must try Guy's (as in Guy's Big Bite from the Food Network) ham recipe. Actually, it's his dad's recipe and while watching him create this mouth watering slab of meaty goodness during a Food Network Christmas special I could barely contain myself from running full force to the store for all the ingredients. By new years my patience had worn thin and I had a family gathering to test what turned out to be the best ham recipe of all time! Fruity, spicy, tender...the list goes on. Just try it for yourself. Try it this Sunday. Make it date. I promise it will be worth it.

That was a great day of birthday celebrations, wrapping up a fun holiday season. In our family we celebrate with food and lots of it! 6 hours in the kictchen and it was well worth it. We ripped that ham to shreads, we devoured a rocky road cheescake in record time and all that remained was a ham bone. One lone ham bone that had too much potential to go to waste. Wrapped tight and waiting pateiently in it's frozen abode I thought long and hard about how to proceed.

Pea Soup? Too predictable.
Navy Bean Stew? Too Charlie.
Garbage? Not a chance.

I got distracted from the bone. Life went on. Billy moved to town. Billy saw the bone. Billy inquired. Billy hates ham. Billy likes soup. Billy brought me fresh East Indian yellow curry from Toronto. Billy wanted to try lentils. Ian hates lentils. Ian likes ham...

CURRY LENTIL SOUP WITH HAM comes to life!!!

This is how the magic happens. I'm unexpectedly inspired. I'll lose sleep over a ham bone, but I'm also entertained, "The ham bone's connected to the soup bone. The soup bone's connected to the veggie bone." I live for this. I'm inspired and passionate and in the end it brings me together with the people I love and we all savor in the flavour of it all. They may not join in on the singing, but hey, I get down.

Lentils, curry and ham together make one unbelievably tasty soup. I created a soup masterpiece!!! (Yep, tooting my own horn keeps me returning to the kitchen!) Mild curry flavour, just enough veggies, firm lentils and smokey ham. All I can say is, mmmmmmmmm Ham!

If I could only be so passionate about the kitchen clean-up ;)

P.S. I'd like to thank Melanie for the Rocky Road Cheesecake. I could never compete with her recipe. Maybe she'll let me post it one day ;) Everyone should experience such decadence!

P.P.S. mmmmmmmmmmm Cheesecake!