Food is a tradition associated with holidays. For Thanksgiving you roast a turkey. For Easter you bake a ham. Glazed ham has become linked with Easter Dinner. But you do not have to save ham for Easter or any other holiday. The glaze on ham can glisten ham joint cooked in coke the lights of your dining room making is a beautiful presentation for a holiday dinner.Bring foil up from all 4 sides to cover the ham cooked in slow cooker. Pop in the oven and bake for 15 minutes. If you want your Christmas ham to be browned on the surface, you may want to pop it back in the over uncovered for 5-10 additional minutes.Historic Garden Week in Virginia - April 16 - 23, 2011 - The largest open house and garden exhibit in the state returns for the 78th year. It is sponsored by the Garden Club of Virginia. Explore antiques, interior design, architecture and horticulture in more than 250 homes and gardens across the state, including the boyhood home of Thomas Jefferson at Tuckahoe Plantation. Several James River plantations will also be holding special events. Many historic and beautiful neighborhoods in Richmond are included in the event, Monument Avenue, Windsor Farms and cooking ham Gardens/Cary Street Road. For a complete listing of the Richmond locations, please click here.If this is your first holiday since your divorce, you may be feeling very sad about not having your children with you over the entire holiday like you are used to. Your anger at your ex-spouse may be a little more intense right now because this is a touchy subject for everyone. What will you do when your children are with your ex-spouse? How are your traditions going to be different?Realize as well that the Thomas Kinkade Christmas paintings are an ideal but somewhat unrealistic. They are images of what we would really like to experience, but very few do. Most of us are like window shoppers looking at those soft, fuzzy images of Kinkade's classic christmas ham scenes, but we do not have the ability to buy into it so we never go inside. We stand for a little while gazing at them and imagining ourselves there. Wouldn't it be wonderful just to be there? Away from all the problems and violence in the world. Away from our own struggles and sadness. Then we turn away, and the scene fades.Four out of five surveyed Americans feel the holidays are too materialistic (Center for a New American Dream), and that's probably true. I wholeheartedly embrace the Center's vision of developing an Alternative Gift Registry within your network of family and friends. Check out their website, and consider it, particularly in these difficult economic times.You will really be surprised at how delicious your Christmas ham comes out. Boiling the ham prior to putting it in the oven, removes a fair amount of sodium from the ham. If you are one that thinks that cooked hams are too salty, you will enjoy this new way of cooking a Christmas ham or a ham for any special occasion. I have found that this recipe for cooking a Christmas ham pleases all the guests--even those with restricted diets. Enjoy!