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                        Baked Ham with Sweet and Spicy Glaze                                     INGREDIENTS 1 (8-pound) bone-in smoked half ham Sweet and Spicy Glaze  (recipe) PREPARATION: Preheat oven to 325°F. Place ham, fat side up, on rack in roasting pan. Insert meat thermometer into thickest part of ham away from fat or bone. Roast ham in oven about 3 hours. Prepare Sweet and Spicy Glaze. Remove ham from oven. Generously brush half of glaze over ham; bake 30 minutes longer or until meat thermometer registers 160°F. Remove ham from oven and brush with remaining glaze. Let ham stand about 20 minutes before slicing. This recipe appears in: Pork

Avocado Soup with Spicy Salsa Serves 4   1 vine-ripened red tomato 1/2 medium onion (preferably red), finely chopped 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped fresh cilantro Salt to taste 1 fresh serrano or jalapeno chiles, seeded and chopped Juice of 2 lemons 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper 4 ripe Haas avocados, peeled, pitted and cut into chunks 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 medium onions, coarsely chopped 3 cloves garlic, chopped 1 quart vegetable stock, plus more, if needed Quarter and seed the tomato. Dice the tomato and transfer to a bowl. Stir in the onion, cilantro, serrano, salt, and half the lime juice. Keep it refrigerated and covered. In a large non-reactive mixing bowl, toss the avocados with remaining lime juice, until evenly coated. Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium high heat and add onions, garlic and sauté, stirring continuously until onions are translucent, about 5 minutes. ...

Ingredients: Oil : 2 tbsp Onion : 1 Tomato : 1 Green chilies : 3-4 (according to your spice level) Garlic : 3 (chopped) Ginger : 1tsp (chopped) Garam masala : 1 tbsp Maggi masala Powder : 1 tbsp(optional) salt : required to taste Vegetables: 1 cup(I’ve added bell pepper, green peas and carrots) Macroni : 1 cup Method of Preparation : Boil the vegetables in a separate pan  drain them and keep them aside. Boil the Macaroni with a tbsp of oil. Wash it in cold water and keep them aside. Heat oil in a pan add onions fry them till it becomes translucent. After that add green chilies,chopped garlic and ginger mix it all well cook them for 2-3 mins. Then add salt and tomatoes, cook them till tomatoes get mashed. Add a tbsp of garam masala fry them till the raw smell goes off. And if you have maggi masala powder you can substitute it instead of garam masala, it tastesreally good. Now add the boiled vegetbles and macroni mix it all together gently without breaki...

Ingredients for Chili Potato Potato - 3 (250 grams) Green coriander powder - 2 tbsp (finely chopped) Green chilies - 2 (finely chopped) Ginger paste - 1 tsp Onion-1  Capsicum-1 Corn flour - 4 tbsp Tomato sauce - 2 tbsp Soya sauce - 1 tbsp Chilly sauce - 1 tsp Vinegar -1 tsp Chilly flakes - ½ tsp Salt - ½ tsp Sugar - ½ tsp Oil - to fry the potatoes and cook chilly potato    How to make Chili Potato Wash potatoes properly, peel and slice them length wise thinly. Mix the sliced potatoes with corn flour nicely. They should get coated nicely with corn flour. To fry corn flour coated potatoes, heat oil in a pan. When oil gets heated up place corn flour coated potatoes in pan and fry till they get golden brown color. Fry all potatoes like wise and place them in as sieve so that excess oil gets strained out. Prepare sauce for fried potatoes Heat another pan, add 2 tbsp oil. When oil ...