Easter Ham Fruit Relish Recipe

If you are hosting dinner this Easter and want to prepare a memorable dinner to your guests, start off by baking an award-winnig ham from Triple T Specialty Meats and topping it with this sweet spice fruit relish. This relish is also great for pork roast or pork chops.


Apple Cranberry Walnut Relish

Ingredients:

6 ounces 100% Apple Juice
2/3 cup Sugar
1/4 teaspoon Cinnamon, ground
1/4 teaspoon Nutmeg, ground
2 Apples, chopped (During mid-summer season, substitute with Pomegranate seeds for an even sweeter taste)
1/2 cup Walnuts, chopped
3 cups Fresh or Frozen Cranberries

Directions:

In large saucepan combine the apple juice, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir while cooking over medium heat until the sugar is dissolved. Add the cranberries and bring to boil, then reduce heat and stir for 4 minutes or until the cranberries' skin splits open (as shown below).

Remove from heat. Stir in the apples and walnuts. Cover and chill for 2 hours prior to serving.

Note: Make the relish ahead of time to save on time and stress. Relish keeps for two days in the refrigerator.

Egg-citing Easter Entertaining

If children are attending your Easter, do yourself a favor and have plenty of activities ready to keep them busy. Children who are bored tend to get rambunctious, so avoid that with some of these egg-citing activities.

Egg Race

Make an obstacle course out of your backyard, using things that you have...chairs, boxes, tables, etc. Have a stopwatch. Give each kid a spoon and an egg (boiled or plastic). Have each kid go through the obstacle course as fast as possible, jumping over boxes and crawling under tables (wrap bandanas around their knees to keep from getting grass stains), whoever has the fastest time without dropping their egg wins. You can even make it difficult by blindfolding them and pairing them up with a parter who will be their eyes giving them guidance throughout the course.

Egg Rolling

Make three circle bullseye, inside circle with a 15, middle circle with a 10, outside circle with a 5, using sidewalk chalk. Give each kid three eggs to roll down the sidewalk, trying to land on the inside circle for, the child with the most points wins.

Egg Toss

Pair each kid up with a partner, giving each pair an egg (note: this game works better using a hard boiled egg rather than a plastic egg). Starting off 12 inches from each other toss the egg back and forth, after each successful toss and catch move another 12 inches apart. If an egg drops, that pair is out. The last pair standing wins.

Egg Decorating

Dazzle the eggs up by using scrap fabric strips, artificial flowers and plastic jewels. Make animals by using scrap felt pieces for ears and feet. Use markers to make the faces. Remind them that the eggs spoil, so they can't keep them forever. I learned that the hard and very smelly way as a kid.