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What to do with Jamón Ibérico?

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Tropicalsenior

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My favorite way to eat this ham is on a sandwich with brie (which of course you would have to import from Brieland) on a really good baguette. Maybe you could use some of that good French bread that you showed the other day.

Then again, on a more practical note, it's wonderful wrapped around a slice of cantaloupe.

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4 hours ago, Tropicalsenior said:

My favorite way to eat this ham is on a sandwich with brie (which of course you would have to import from Brieland) on a really good baguette.

 

Yes. Or with Manchego and fig jam.

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Personally, with it being such a rarity while not living there, I just like to put a slice in my mouth and let it kind of melt and roll around for a while.  Everything is great when you've got a lot of it, but when you can count the slices on two hands, I like to make it last.  I've been in your position before - I like to have maybe 3 slices per day so the pack will last about a week if I'm lucky.

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Personally, with it being such a rarity while not living there, I just like to put a slice in my mouth and let it kind of melt and roll around for a while.  Everything is great when you've got a lot of it, but when you can count the slices on two hands, I like to make it last.  I've been in your position before - I like to have maybe 3 slices per day so the pack will last about a week if I'm lucky.

 

You have a lot more self-discipine than me. When I open the the packet it's pretty much all over!

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11 hours ago, liuzhou said:

Normally I just eat it as is. Any other suggestions?

Plenty of other suggestions but none quite so good! 

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6 hours ago, Tropicalsenior said:

on a sandwich with brie (which of course you would have to import from Brieland)

 

Brieland's finest is easy for me to source. Good French bread is a distant dream.

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What about good Spanish bread?  That's even harder to get!

 

Bread of any sort is hard to source here. I used to make my own but recently I haven't been able to for health reasons. Anyway I don't think an Ibérico sandwich is what I was looking for.

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We just eat it straight.    Thin sliced, small forkfuls.    Savor its special flavor nuances.    Small glass of sherry or alberino.

 

Wonderful suggestions upthread for less exalted jambons

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We got a pound of sliced Iberico and a pound of manchego for Christmas, and one thing we made was croquettes, based on this recipe: Martha Stewart croquettes. Probably wouldn't have made them if we only had a bit of it, but the croquettes were excellent. We served them with a dipping sauce made with piquillo peppers and smoked paprika.

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I have no wish to seem ungrateful. Thank you everyone for your suggestions but in the meantime I went back to my instincts and greed so just ate the lot straight out of the pack.

 

I will get some more and experiment further based on all these tips and suggestions.

 

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Overly enabled by this topic, tonight I purchased some jamon from Spain.  Considering the source was Shoprite, the quality might not be the highest, however the regrettably few slices sure looked attractive in their package. 

 

Dinner is planned to be a hoagie.

 

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