Shantelle's Glazed Ham

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It's well known in Denver that this host, Janet Johnston, is a miserably horrible cook in real life! That's the joke, she can't actually cook! She "cooks" all these other people's recipes, none of which she actually could ever take credit for. Go into her shop and see, she is never really there, her employees are all self-obsessed pretenders pretending to be geniuses or something.. I got horrible customer service in that shop from some boozed-up drunk guy with ugly tattoos all over his body, and some snotty girl saying she was the manager rang me up.. I think these guys got some kind of a break probably because of looks rather than anything else. Sheesh, go to Spice World in Chicago and you'll see that the Savory shop is a rip off anyway...

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I agree 100% with J. With a title like "Spice & Easy", it is reasonable to assume she would spend an extra minute focusing on how to put together a spice blend. Of course you could argue that the title does include the word "Easy". To which I would say that in India, a spice blend like garam masala is part of the very foundation of their cooking... sort of a "food 101" in their culture. It would be easy to show us the basics and encourage us to start experimenting.

So yes, lose all the cutsie banter and show us the spice!

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What a neat idea. And finally, something different for ham! I'm looking forward to ttrying this for the holidays.

J-Of course she doesn't show you how to blend the spices. (Yes, there are hundreds of ways--if you want to make your own, google it! Garam Masala is easily accessable: try Indian markets. I love, http://www.savoryspiceshop.com
(I have found that they typically beat Penzeys price point--and you can order smaller amounts.

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This is my new favorite spice blend. It is fabulous on salmon and probably any fish and chicken. Chutney is a great complement. Go to Penzeys Spices website and you can order it online, or J, you live in San Diego, and their are a bunch of Middle Eastern markets that have opened in mostly east county(La Mesa/El Cajon. I saw it at Vine Ripe next to Costco in La Mesa. Try it!!

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I am continually disappointed in this show. When it comes to the more complex spice blends, this host, who has an extremely irritating personality anyway, always skips over the more complex spice blends like garam masala in this recipe. True, she showed the ingredients for it, but she didn't show how to prepare the spices, how to grind them, or how much Shantelle, the employee who created this recipe, used in her garam masala blend. This host will probably answer back that garam masala blends vary wildly -- BUT we in the U.S. who have never made one from scratch before need a place to start. She needs to stop trying so hard to be cute and get down to basics on complex blends like garam masala. Show us how to prepare the spices -- put the seeds in a pan and cook them until they look like WHAT -- then grind them and use how much of each??? Where do we start so we can then experiment on our own? That's why I started watching this show and what it promised but NEVER delivers.