Baked Ham with Cherry Glaze

Holidays can be difficult. Why do Americans make all holidays to be about food? Easter is coming soon and you will be inundated with baked ham, sweets, potatoes, etc. If you're doing the cooking, no problem. Have baked sweet potatoes, sugar free desserts (find some pies here and a lot more desserts on BariatricEating.com). The baked ham with glaze...good grief...how do you make a baked ham with glaze...and stay wls friendly? Here's a great recipe (AND SUPER EASY TOO!). We like easy here.

Baked Ham

2 to 3 pound pre-cooked ham (canned or vacuum wrapped)
1 jar Smucker's sugar free cherry preserves

Spoon out the cherry preserves into a small sauce pot and cook on medium-low heat just until melted.

Preheat oven to 350F.

Unwrap your ham and take off the netting if present. Cut diamonds about 1 inch deep and place ham on rack in baking pan. If you don't have a rack, that's okay. Just make a few small balls of aluminum foil to raise the ham off of the bottom of the pan. Oh, and here's a tip...spray the baking pan with Pam before cooking. Ask me how I know this. {sigh}

Brush ham with the melted cherry preserves. Be generous. Place ham in oven and cook for about 20 minutes. Brush with melted preserves again. Repeat until ham is done and glaze is cooked. Use all the cherry preserves; you will be using the drippings too. This won't take long since the ham is already cooked. You're really just heating up the ham and cooking the glaze on top.

When done, take out of oven and let it rest for about 20 minutes. Slice and plate. Spoon glaze from the bottom of the baking pan onto the slices. Serve and enjoy!