If the ham is not already sliced, you will need to make marks in the top of the ham before putting it in the slow cooker. Use a sharp knife to cut a grid or diamond pattern on the top of the ham. You should only cut 1/4 inch deep into the ham. This will allow the glaze to reach deep inside the meat. The glaze will both flavor the ham and keep it moist. You can use the glaze as a baste as well. Brown sugar, maple, pineapple, cloves, and honey are all popular ingredients in ham glazes. Some recipes you can use for a glaze include: Maple Brown Sugar: 1 cup dark brown sugar, 1/2 cup pure maple syrup Pineapple: 3/4 cup pineapple juice, 1 cup brown sugar, 1/3 cup Dijon mustard, 1/3 cup whole grain mustard Honey Mustard: 1/2 cup brown sugar,1/2 cup honey, 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard, 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves If you want a thicker glaze, you can heat the glaze in a sauce pan on the stove. Keep the heat slow, and heat the glaze until the sugar dissolves. Stir as you heat to prevent the glaze from sticking to the bottom of the pan. The glaze can be added either before you start heating the ham or thirty minutes before the ham stops cooking. A glaze added sooner will impart more flavor the ham, but it may become thin and runny during cooking. A glaze added towards the end will sit at the top of the ham, but it will be thicker. Decide what your preference is, and add the glaze at the appropriate time. Once the ham is done cooking, place it under the broiler for between five and seven minutes. This will caramelize the glaze. Keep an eye on the ham as it is below the broiler to prevent burning or overheating. If you don't want to use the broiler, you can also place the ham inside an oven heated to 425F (218C) for eight minutes.
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One-sentence summary -- Slice the top of the ham. Mix the glaze. Reduce the glaze. Add the glaze to the ham. Place the ham under the broiler.

You are not the incessant and compulsive stream of thoughts and emotions. Most of your pain and suffering is self-created due to identification with the automatic and hypnotic 'voice in your head' (thoughts) and emotions. In other words, you believe the voice (thoughts) is You, follow it and take the stories and its narration or interpretations as truth. This identification makes thinking compulsive. That's the dysfunction and greatest obstacle to awakening. Example: When someone else's or your own mind is mean to you and you feel hurt, it's not from the words, but due to automatic mental-emotional interpretation of those words and the extent to which you identify with it. Even if words were intended to hurt or reaction is justified. "There's nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so" William Shakespeare. Deeply realize that you are not your mind (thoughts, emotions and mental patterns) or Ego but the sacred knowing or awareness (observer) that sees or is aware of them. That's when Ego, false self, begins to dissolve. Its because when you recognize false as false, it dissolves. Read Dissolve the Ego (According to Eckhart Tolle's Teachings) for more depth. It's true that words have great power to put hypnotic spells on you, but its only because you see yourself as no more than name and form; unaware of your formlessessence.. Often ask questions like "Who's talking here? Me or the voice in head", "Do I need to be lost in mind?", "Who am I?", "Am I these thoughts and emotions?" etc. Feel the inner body for answer. If you tried to understand (intellectually) or ask the mind, you will not find a true answer as thought (mind) by its very nature is limited and can at most show you the relative truth. The very nature of the conditions or forms or structures is unstable and fleeting. Buddha made this a central part of his teachings. He called it Anicca. From your thoughts and emotions to events or conditions to people to buildings to mountains to planets or stars or galaxies and so on; all forms arise, change and dissolve into the 'no thingness' of space where they came from. Since Ego is a derivative sense of self, it constantly feels like its under threat cause deep down it knows that all forms are unstable and fraught to collapse or dissolve. As a result fear and desire become primary motivating forces of the Ego. This is also one of the reasons why mind continuously covers up the Now with compulsive thinking and seeks sensory pleasures or psychological gratifications one after another, looking for long lasting fulfillment which they can't provide. Only the space of consciousness or awareness, where all forms come and go, undergoes no change. What is space? Emptiness or nothingness and so are you, in essence. Cause you are inseparable from formless one life that sustains and enables all forms to be. For more depth read Know Your True Self and Become Mentally Flexible. "There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is the mother of the universe." Tao Te Ching. Dis-identification or detachment from forms does not mean to relinquish possessions, family, friends etc. and live in woods or something. It actually means to truly see and realize the fleeting and impermanent nature of all forms, and world (forms) cannot give you long lasting fulfillment or identity. That's when things or forms naturally lose their seriousness and significance that they don't have. When craving or attachment with forms dissolves, you honor and enjoy them even more. Their passing nature is allowed to be. Read Dissolve the Ego (According to Eckhart Tolle's Teachings) for more depth. . Ego is current state of consciousness of humanity. A conglomeration of recurring thoughts and conditioned mental-emotional patterns that are invested with a sense of I, a sense of self. In other words, Ego is identification with mind and form. This dysfunction is the root cause of unimaginable suffering humans have inflicted on themselves and each other for eons "Recognizing your own insanity is the arising of sanity.. This is also the greatest discovery of humanity." Eckhart Tolle. To evolve into the next stage of conscious evolution and ensure our survival, ego must be dissolved. Which is not a doing but an alert seeing. Cause seeing is freeing yourself from the dysfunction of Ego. "When you recognize the false as false, it dissolves" Eckhart Tolle.
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One-sentence summary -- Deeply realize that you are not your mind. See the unstable nature of all forms and situations. Dissolve the Ego

Place the espresso machine directly on the stove. It is not necessary to use a pot or pan. Turn the stove on to low heat.
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Place the espresso maker on the stove.