Pour bottle of red wine over ham and let marinate overnight. Bake ham. YUM!

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T-day at my house got nixed. Now I have to make pies.

I've never made a pie in my life.

I'm thinking

1. chocolate cream
2. pumpkin
3. apple gallette

Pumpkin is very, very easy. The crust is the hardest thing.

I shared a good ham recipe last year. Good to me at least. That counts right? It's a sweet ham made with brandy and cherries straight from Southern Living magazine:

Cherries Jubilee-Black Pepper Glazed Ham

Ingredients
1 (10- to 12-lb.) smoked, ready-to-cook bone-in ham
1 (14-oz.) can low-sodium chicken broth
2 1/4 cups cherry preserves (about 2 [12-oz.] jars)
3/4 cup brandy
1/4 cup cider vinegar
1 tablespoon freshly ground pepper
3 tablespoons whole grain Dijon mustard
3 tablespoons cane syrup
Whole grain Dijon mustard
Garnishes: fresh cherries, fresh sage sprigs

Preparation
1. Remove skin from ham, and trim fat to 1/4-inch thickness. Make shallow cuts in fat 1 inch apart in a diamond pattern. Place ham in an aluminum foil-lined roasting pan; add broth to pan.
2. Stir together preserves and next 5 ingredients in a saucepan; bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to medium-low; simmer, stirring constantly, 5 minutes or until mixture is slightly reduced. Cover and chill half of cherry mixture until ready to serve. Brush ham with half of cherry mixture.
3. Bake ham at 275° on lower oven rack 4 hours to 4 hours and 30 minutes or until a meat thermometer inserted into thickest portion registers 148°, basting with remaining cherry mixture every 30 minutes. Let ham stand 15 minutes before slicing.
4. If desired, reheat reserved chilled cherry mixture. Serve ham with reserved cherry mixture and mustard.

Dinner with all the trimmings will be courtesy of my niece and her family. I need to show up with something. I am thinking of cornbread cooked in my new cast iron pan (boy, does it ever turn out yummy and you get great exercise lifting that thing) and some kind of dessert other than a pie. I like apple cakes and have a few old recipes for this.

I have an awesome chocolate pie that is really tasty and so very easy that is it almost embarrasing. Holler if you want it and I'll track down the recipe card at home for you.

Post it Okie. Sounds good to me.

Really interesting chestnut bundt cake on The Chew today. Should be available on their website.

I bake an awesome apple pie. I do not like pie though....

Pillsbury pie crusts from the refrigerator section are absolutely the best. I can make a pie crust from scratch but stopped doing it once I found these.

I like pumpkin,Mom likes apple and husband wants pecan so that's what I'll make. Unless I decide to go rogue and not make pies at all! That chestnut bundt cake sounds good!

Here is the easy chocolate pie I mentioned.

Chocolate Pie

1 lg box instant chocolate pudding mix
1 8oz pkg cream cheese, softened
1 large tub cool whip (will use in halves)
1 graham cracker crust
2 cups milk
Chocolate bar or choc. chips (optional)

Mix pudding with milk. Mix in softened cream cheese. Then add 1/2 the tub of cool whip and stir well. Spoon into crust and top/frost with remaining cool whip. Top with choc chips or shaved choc bar to add that pretty touch. Pie will be very tall. I use skim milk since that is all we ever have at home.

I get asked for this recipe anywhere I take this pie. It is now a staple at the in laws annual dinner.

Have you ever tried different flavors of pudding? This seems basic enough that almost any pudding flavor should work, don't you think?

No, but you now have me thinking of banana cream or pumpkin spice. Either would sure work here. Thanks! I might just try the pumpkin spice this year.

i have a really easy chocolate mousse pie too!

The original recipe calls for bars of Hershey's chocolate, but I use half a bag of semi-sweet and half a bag of milk chocolate chips- they melt better...

chocolate (as above)
bag of mini marshmallows (again, they melt better)
large container of cool whip
milk
graham cracker crust

melt chocolate and marshmallows together in a small amount of milk until smooth. while still hot, fold into cool whip. pour into crust. refrigerate overnight.

This will make 2 pie, so you can cut the chocolate and marshmallows in half and use a small container of cool whip.

Do NOT remove from fridge until ready to eat, otherwise you might need to eat it with a spoon. lol It's delish.

Last year for Christmas my parents made an "oink-bah-moo". A pork roast stuffed with a lamb roast stuffed with a beef roast. There was some type of stuffing in between the layers. It was actually really good.

Oh I wanna try that!!!! ::DROOLZ::