A Delicious Post Christmas Meal!

It seems that after the Christmas Day meal is done that there are always LOTS of leftovers. For us, that's not an exception. I have a funny story to tell about the Christmas Ham. I shop at a local store called Family Fare,  they offer fuel rewards for every $50.00 spent in store (.05 off up to 20 gallons), and at times if you spend $75.00 they will give you a .50 off up to 20 gallon coupon. As you accumulate points you can then also use them to get items free in the store. Around Christmas time if you have 2,000 points you can get a free ham. This is a really great deal. Well, my mom worked VERY hard to get to 2,000 points and then told me to go and use her card and get the Ham that we would all be having here on Christmas Day. The store is literally a hop-skip-and-a-jump down the street from my house. So, I went and picked up the ham and few other things that I needed the week before Christmas. The store was hopping busy, and there were only 3 cashiers working, this included the Manager whose line I was in. Well, she asked me if I wanted to get my Cool Whip free for 200 points and I told her no, instead of hitting just no for that transaction she must have hit no for using all points...so when it came to my ham it didn't ask again, I told her that I wanted to use the 2,000 points for this. So, she credited back the $32 ham and said we'd have to go to the Service Desk to take the points off the card, which I was fine with...When all was said and done she realized that it was just too busy to go and do this, so she told me to have a Merry Christmas and use the points on something else. What a nice blessing. What did I do? I went and got a boneless ham and came home and cut it up into slices and chunks to be placed in the freezer to be used at a different time. I was able to get two hams totaling over $60.00 for FREE. At that time I wasn't working yet, and it was a really great blessing.

So, last night I used some of that second ham to make dinner. The brother came upstairs as it was baking and was salivating over how good it smelled in the house! This always makes me happy! Especially because it was so easy to make!

SCALLOPED POTATOES & HAM

INGREDIENTS:
4 Tbsp. Butter 
2 Tbsp. Flour 
1 1/2 C. Milk
Salt & Pepper to Taste
2 Medium Onions; thinly sliced
4 Large Russet Potatoes; thinly sliced
12 oz. Ham; Cubed
3 C. Shredded Cheddar Cheese

Preheat the oven to 350. Grease a Baking Dish. In a saucepan melt 2 Tbsp. Butter over medium heat. Add in the Flour and stir. Cook for 1 minute. Remove from heat and whisk in the Milk. Return pan to heat and bring to simmer while continuing to stir; until thickened. Remove from heat; season with Salt & Pepper and set aside. In a skillet melt butter, add onions and cook until browned. Spread 1/3 of the White Sauce in bottom of Dish. Top with 1/2 the Potatoes, 1/2 the Onions, 1/2 the Ham, and 1 C. Cheddar Cheese. Repeat with 1/3 of the sauce, remaining Potatoes, Onion & Ham, and 1 C. Cheddar Cheese. Top with remaining White Sauce and Cheese. Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour; until bubbly and cheese is completely melted.

It was a delicious and filling meal. And really only took me about 20 minutes to throw together!