Chad loves to cook and he loves new recipes. He's a much better cook than I am. He's more adventurous than I am with recipes too. He found this recipe for Ham Salsa Macha. He made it last week and he kept telling me how great it was. We had a ham in the freezer and I have until Tuesday about 10 a.m. to clear out a LOT of room in the freezer. I think I'm good but getting that ham out of the freezer gives me a bit of wiggle room so I took the ham out a couple of days ago and let it defrost in the fridge. This morning I made the salsa matcha and got the ham in the oven.

The recipe may sound a bit troublesome but it was very easy. I will admit that I was too cheap to use 3 cups of avocado oil. I knew Chad had a lot of sauce left over so I halved the recipe and used about 3/4 cup of palm fruit shortening (because I had fried something else in the skillet using palm fruit shortening and it was still in the skillet. Then when I put everything in the blender and added about a cup of avocado oil.

Vince has gotten a little more picky about what he likes and it seems like my level of spicy has become way too spicy for him and ow I'm apprehensive about everything new that I cook. But, Vince loved it!  He said 'This is the ONLY way to cook ham!

Chad told me that he covered a chuck roast in the salsa Macha, smoked the roast, basting it with the sauce and he said it was delicious too.

Just sharing . . in case you want to try it.