CDO Premium Holiday Ham for the Holiday Season

Noche Buena for Filipino is usually the highlight of the Christmas season. It is the time when families and friends gather together to celebrate the life of our Redeemer and His love to us.  To any Filipino family gathering, food will never be absent and what more we needed to make the occasion more special but a tasty-looking, sumptuous ham. Finding the said kind of ham is usually difficult or pricy, but now, the search is over.

Last November 20, 2010, my husband and I were invited by Miss Sai to the product launch of CDO Premium's Holiday Ham. The event was held at the Felix Restaurant and Bar in Greenbelt 5, and one of the reasons that I was very much willing to attend the occasion is because of Chef Rob. Endorser of Holiday Ham, a young chef and entrepreneur, was the host of QTV’s “Chef To Go” and now ETC 2nd Ave’s “You’ve Been Served”.

While waiting for the event to start, we were offered with some h'orderves like shrimp vermicelli, bread sticks wrapped with bacon, short bread cookies with smoked salmon, pesto  quesadillas and the chocolate fudge brownie topped with fresh strawberry slice.

When he entered the room, all heads turned his way. Hunkier than before, he introduced the finest whole-meat ham in the market- The CDO Primium's Holiday Ham. It is made from one whole boneless meat from the hind leg which is the best cut of pork for hams. Hind leg ham is tastier and meatier compared to the more common shaped hams. It is also a high-quality smoked ham. The net marks attests to that. Only whole-meat hams can be smoked in ham nets because if it isn’t, pieces would fall off. Finally, Holiday Ham has no extenders. It is meaty, juicy, and flavorful that gives your money a lot more of its value.

After a few quick ham recipe demonstrations, they've given us some sampler of the green salad and of course, the Holiday Ham with pesto sauce. It was a simple but superb dish. After which, everyone gathered around Chef Rob to have some pictures taken with them, then it was followed by a short Q&A about chef rob and the Holiday Ham.

Thought the program was over, they announced that there will be a raffle and they will be giving away 3 iPod touch and a kiss with chef rob (kinda automatic when you win hehehe). But there's a catch. When your name is drawn, you should be able to answer first the question about Holiday Ham before you could have your prize(s). I honestly wasn't even hoping to win or even called because of my past experiences with raffles.  But hey! Miracles do happen.

I was called (twice!) and was really nervous that I might not be able to answer their question. The question was "What's the Holiday Ham doesn't have that makes it more juicy and delicious than the other hams?" I really didn't know the answer and yet it seems that I heard an Angel whispered something to my ear and I immediately answered "no extenders", and yes, my answer was correct so I now got this wonderful iPod Touch.

That day was marvelous for me. My raffle curse was broken, and true to their words, I've tasted the most festive ham that fits our Filipino palette. It will be the perfect Christmas gift you could give to your family and friends.

Have a joyous season everyone!

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To make the holidays a cut above the rest, Holiday Ham will be giving out an Apple iPad tablet computer. Interested parties need only to register with their name, Facebook page URL, mobile phone number, and email address. It's that easy!

The registration is on the Holiday Ham website http://holidayham.com.ph/subpages/promo.aspx and is open until December 20, 2010.