I just finished cutting up my Honeybaked ham, putting most of it in the freezer. I’m left with a large, meaty bone. Given a slow cooker, a limited amount of time for prep and a desire not to have to buy exotic ingredients, help me decide what to do with it?
Split pea soup? Do you have any dried split peas?
You could send it to me. Or you could buy a bag of dried beans. I like the 13-bean-soup mix, personally. Soak the beans in water overnight. In the morning, put the soaked beans, the ham bone, chopped onion, chopped carrot (if you’re so inclined), a bay leaf, and, if you have them, a couple of whole cloves, in the crock pot. Add water so there’s a couple of inches of water above the beans. Cook for 8-12 hours or so. YUM!
Nope, but I could get some, if you have an easy recipe.
Here ya go. Pretend the ham bone is two hamhocks, and you should be all right.
Red beans and rice. That’s what youre supposed to do with a hambone.
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I bought a box of Hambone Soup mix at Honeybaked today. I’m soooo looking forward to making it. I am also looking forward to eating the ham. 
Plus it’s a great excuse to have loads of hot sauce and ice cold beer. I love red beans and rice.
In our family we used ham bones for Split Pea soup too.
But another very simple and tasty thing we did with it was to put it in a soup pot and toss in a big batch of fresh, or frozen green beans. Add some water and let it simmer until the beans are cooked to your liking. If you add just a little water it comes out more as a side dish. If you add more water it will be more like soup.
A little pepper, and you have a tasty dish! It is salty enough already.
In our big family, we would just keep adding beans to that same ham bone until all the meat was cooked off or the flavor was gone. We also had our own garden full of beans, so it was an easy way to use them up.
Beans Beans Beans Beans Beans 
Either just a pot of pintos, or red beans & rice, or great northern - can’t go wrong no matter which direction you take.
Combine with either crusty French bread or cornbread AND cold beer
Food of the Gods
Now I want my mom’s bean soup. That woman is a wizard with bean soup. Her biscuits will kill you and not in a good way but her bean soup is ambrosia.
Collard greens. Substitute your ham leg for the smoked turkey legs. It’s a New Year’s Day tradition for me.
But any of the bean/split pea ideas would be great as well.
Red beans and rice.
And now you’ve heard it right from the ham’s bone.
I love this, but would also add some tiny (or quartered) potatoes to the mix, and maybe a little minced onion and garlic.
We’re having a ham for dinner tomorrow night, and now I’m anxious to get down to the bone so I can do something yummy with it!
Beans it is, though the other ideas do sound tempting, especially the collard greens. Nummy.
Reckon I was too late with my suggestion, but for NEXT time:
Scalloped spuds.
Grease crock
Slice a bunch of spuds and onions into crock.
Mix up a slurry of flour and milk (pancake batter consistency), salt/pepper and pour over spuds.
Put one of your spiral cut ham joints on top
Cover and cook on low all day.
Half hour before serving, add whatever kind of cheese you prefer and put the lid back on.