It’s that time of year again my friends, Christmas in July.

It all began when I got it in my mind that I’d like to make a Pomegranate Glazed Ham.  It seemed a relatively easy thing to do, but it wasn’t until I’d been to my local butcher a few days prior to the family dinner that I learned a rolled ham nugget was indeed a specialty item that one needed to order the week before. 

I decided I’d take a stroll through the farmers markets for some inspiration (bleh, waking at 630am on a weekend is NOT okay, but a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do), ham might be a traditional christmas fare right, but I got to thinking about substituting the cured meat for a roast instead, sounded right in my head as I ran through the flavours.  So, off I went in search amongst the rows of bounty.  

And there it was before me in the Mountain Creek Farm stash – a perfect free range, organic, happy and healthy piece of pork just begging me to take it home. A scrumptious deboned leg of pork that weighed 1.5 kilograms, I decided was mine. Continue Reading