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I cooked the ham on Saturday night, and I'll have to say that it was pretty damn good. I was given a recipe for a simple mustard and brown sugar glaze, scored the skin and studded it with cloves. Pretty basic. Baked at 350 for three hours or so. Sliced thinly, served with diced baked potatoes.

I have to say, the ham was fantastic. I didn't really get much of the glaze but it did pick up some of the clove flavor. It's a country ham, so it's salty but interestingly so. There's also an undertone of herbs and other things I can't quite describe. Very tasty. I'm looking forward to smoking one.

It's from Calhoun Country Hams based in Culeper Virginia. They ship whole hams. I got some sausage too that I'm going to try next weekend.

In the mean time, we have about 8 pounds of ham to eat. Will try some different presentations for the next couple days and freeze the rest and break it out as the mood takes.

There's a photo below. Didn't come out right for some reason...the ham wasn't that red. It still looks nice though.

I've loved country hams since the first time I tasted one. While I love to cook, I've never cooked a country ham though. It seems like a lot of work to prep. A friend of Margo's mentioned that he had a source of some amazing country hams. With their reputation, I have dubbed them "magic hams."

We bought half of an uncooked ham a couple of weeks ago but haven't had time to do anything with it.

Things are calming down a bit so this morning I started soaking it in a cooler. I will change the water every day til Saturday when it comes out and starts a 4-hour cook. Saturday or Sunday, I plan on having a post with pictures and a review. If I like the results, I'll reveal the source of the ham.

I love good fudge but for some reason, I don't really get into eating it unless I'm at the beach. I have no idea if there are any places to get good fudge around the DC area (feel free to let me know) but I'll mention one of my favorite places in Delaware...

The Seaside Country Store is in Fenwick Island. It's an interesting store with a lot of antiques and hose decorations and nick-nacks and the like, but the front of the house is all about snacking. There are sauces by the front door, and cheese. The candy's by the register, as one would expect. Not far from there is the fudge counter. It's all made there in the store...you can watch if you get there at the right time. The fudge is quite good and they have something like 40 different kinds. You can order fudge from the website and get it shipped.

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Went to Planet X like we always do. The decor is fun and funky, the cocktails are fantastic. The food is still the highlight of the experience. The menu has an interesting mix of styles. I don't like eggplant, but I go nuts for the stacked eggplant appetizer. I've had everything on the entree menu but my main go-to's are the red Thai curry or the filet. They started taking reservations this year, and this summer if you didn't make a reservation, you're not getting in.

We discovered La La Land last year. It's on the other side of Wilmington Ave from Planet X. This is another place with a fun atmosphere with great food. The golden lump crab bisque is to die for. I had the seared rare yellowfin tuna. Fantastic stuff. There's also a starlight back bar that's cozy, has great drinks and starts to fill up when everyplace else in Rehoboth is closed.

The Cultured Pearl is our favorite place for sushi. Sometime since last summer they moved from Wilmington Ave to Rehoboth Ave where the hardware store used to be. The new space is gorgeous. Inside gets a little loud and doesn't have the intimacy of the old place, but the rooftop dining is beautiful. This is another place that you're not likely to get in during the summer without a reservation. The sushi and sashimi is top notch. They have a cream of crab soup that's also outstanding.

New to me this year was Dangerously Delicious Pies. They're tucked into the back of Bethany Town Center, and I noticed them by accident. It's a small place with record covers stuck to the walls and wonderful pies under glass. Lots of attitude here (in a good way) but there's not anything to get in the way of great pie. I walked out with a tart key lime slice and I look forward to working my way through the rest of their pies.

I was looking forward to visiting Udder Delights this summer, but it isn't where it was. I'm not sure if they moved or just closed. The website's still there. If I find anything out, I'll follow up here. Also, if anyone else out there knows anything about it, comment or track back here if you want.

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Below is a series of photos that I shot of a run of ribs that I smoked on 29 June 2003….a few weeks after I got the smoker.

I’ve been looking through the site for entries that I don’t have imported into the main blog here. Some of them I’ll add in with their original date. This one didn’t really have a blog entry so this gets a new entry.

If anyone out there has a source for getting those crunchy cereal marshmallows without the cereal, I'd love to hear about it.

I've been googling around and haven't found a potential source that makes me feel confident about doing businesss.

Yeah, it's odd, but it reminds me of being a kid eating all the marshmallows out of my Lucky Charms. I'm trying not to get a freeze drying machine and make my own.

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Looks like the FDA extended the deadline for comments on the proposed chocolate changes another month to May 25th so there's still plenty of time to comment.

Guittard set up a site called Don't Mess With Our Chocolate that takes it from the point of view of a maker of fine chocolate. There's a lot more information there on the issue.

Update: I caught a link to this site from Slashfood.

Updated Update: This is entry #200 on the current iteration of this site. Go me. I still have a backup of some of the older stuff that was lost in a previous cutover that I will get to adding this year. Nothing hugely interesting, but adding it for completeness.

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Wow. Slashdot picked up the possible chocolate change.

Someone put in more effort than I did and got the FDA page for the change and a link where you can send in your comments by April 25th.

I'm not up for turning this space into a political soapbox but I'm posting the links in case someone reading this stuff loves chocolate and doesn't read Slashdot.

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So the Grocery Manufacturers of America lobbying group is trying to get the FDA to change the rules for what defines "chocolate" in America. The new rules would allow manufacturers to substitute cheaper vegetable oil for cocoa butter. I would think that would kind of make chocolate not chocolate anymore, but that's just me.

Here's a Gristmill posting on the subject. I agree with its author that we're better off patronizing small producers of high quality chocolate than sitting around and sucking it up as the mass produced chocolate gets worse and worse. It amazes me how much better even mass produced European chocolate is than most if what we have here.

Try an experiment sometime. Find a European version of the Kit Kat. Around the DC Metro area, there's a chain called World market that usually has them. Taste test the European version of the Kit Kat against the American version. Big difference, huh?

Oddly enough, when I noticed this issue I just got done picking up a couple different varieties of hot chocolate from a producer called Vosges. One is an Aztec-style hot chocolate with chipotle and the other is a Paris-style chocolate chaud. I've heard that they're both fantastic. I'll post a follow-up entry once I have a chance to try them out. I think I have a Swiss Miss packet around that I could do a head-to-head with.

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Plain Greek yogurt with honey on it. Tonight was Tupelo honey.

I learned this one at Mourayo in DC. I had a gift certificate for diner for two from Christmas that I used in February. Dinner was fantastic. Then the dessert was a fruit plate with honey covered yogurt. Simple and beautiful. Highly recommended....both the dessert and the restaurant.

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