Serves 6
Get started the day before:
•Quiche: Bake and chill.
•Ham: Trim and score ham (step 1 of recipe); make glaze and chill (step 2 of recipe).
•Buns: Bake, but don't add icing.
•Citrus salad: Prepare and chill.
•Watercress salad: Stem watercress and make dressing; chill them seperately.
Finish up in the morning:
•2 1/2 hours before: Start baking ham.
•1/2 hour before: Put quiche and buns into oven with ham (tent both with foil). Make fresh o.j. and orange slices for drinks.
•30 minutes before: Remove buns from oven and ice them. Set out ham and salads; dress the watercress.
Be sure to buy a ham without added glaze; it would mute the flavor of our extra-citrusy one.
Photo by: Photo: Annabelle Breakey; Styling: Karen Shinto
1. Preheat oven to 350°. Cut off tough, leatherlike skin from ham (if it has it) and score fat and meat in a crosshatch pattern. Put ham, fat side up, in a large roasting pan and tent loosely with foil. Bake until a thermometer in thickest part of meat reaches 120°, about 1 1/2 hours.
2. Meanwhile, make glaze: In a bowl, whisk sugar, zest, juice, and ginger until smooth.
3. Uncover ham and pour glaze over it into pan. Bake ham, uncovered, basting ham and stirring glaze every 10 minutes, until glaze is a thickened, shiny syrup and thermometer in meat reaches 135° to 140°, 15 to 30 minutes total.
4. Let ham rest 5 minutes, then brush with glaze and transfer to a cutting board. Scrape remaining glaze into a small bowl. Carve ham and spoon more glaze on top.
Note: Nutritional analysis is per serving.
Sunset APRIL 2010
Umami-delicious morsels pop up in Western woods and orchards, and make plump, savory nuggets in this quiche. For the neatest slices, make quiche a day ahead; let it cool, loosen it from pan edges, and chill. Cut into wedges, then reheat.
Photo by: Photo: Annabelle Breakey; Styling: Karen Shinto
1. In a food processor, whirl flour and butter until mixture looks like cornmeal. Add 1 egg and whirl until dough holds together. Press evenly over bottom and 1 1/4 in. up side of a 9-in. springform pan; chill.
2. Preheat oven to 375°. Soak mushrooms in a small bowl with 1 cup hot water until softened, 15 to 20 minutes, swishing them around every so often. Gently squeeze out liquid. Cut in half lengthwise if large. Save liquid for another use.
3. Blanch asparagus in a saucepan of boiling water until barely tender-crisp, about 45 seconds. Drain, transfer to a bowl of ice water, and cool. Drain and pat dry.
4. In a bowl, whisk remaining 2 eggs to blend. Whisk in half-and-half, salt, and pepper. Sprinkle gruyère and onion in prepared crust, then arrange asparagus and morels on top. Pour egg mixture over vegetables.
5. Bake quiche on bottom rack until filling no longer jiggles when gently shaken, 40 to 45 minutes. Let cool in pan on a rack at least 30 minutes. Loosen quiche from pan rim with a knife, remove rim, and slice. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Note: Nutritional analysis is per serving.
Sunset APRIL 2010
Spring Awakening Menu
Baked Ham with Sticky Meyer Lemon-Spice Glaze
Asparagus and Morel Quiche
Sunset
Serves 6
A make-ahead menu for Easter or even a lazy Sunday with friends.
Get started the day before:
•Quiche: Bake and chill.
•Ham: Trim and score ham (step 1 of recipe); make glaze and chill (step 2 of recipe).
•Buns: Bake, but don't add icing.
•Citrus salad: Prepare and chill.
•Watercress salad: Stem watercress and make dressing; chill them seperately.
Finish up in the morning:
•2 1/2 hours before: Start baking ham.
•1/2 hour before: Put quiche and buns into oven with ham (tent both with foil). Make fresh o.j. and orange slices for drinks.
•30 minutes before: Remove buns from oven and ice them. Set out ham and salads; dress the watercress.
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