Halftime with Taste Buds: Ham and Cheese Buns

I'm Stephanie Hansen and this is Halftime with Taste Buds. Today we are making my mom's ooey gooey ham and cheese buns and there's very few ingredients actually. We're going to use some very melty cheese. Velveeta is my preference. In addition you want about 16 ounces of cubed ham, a can of tomato paste, and some garlic salt and that is all you need for this recipe. When you're cutting sticky cheese a little Hansen hack is to spray your knife With a little cooking spray, we are going to be cutting our cheese in about the same size as our ham. See how easy it comes off of our knife? All right, we're going to put this all in our bowl. Add our ham, add our tomato paste, and about a teaspoon of garlic salt. And we'll just mix all that up in our bowl. Take a hamburger bun, And you're going to fill it with about a third of a cup of filling. Come on, cheese. Get with the program. And you're just going to wrap it up. And they get ooey and gooey and everyone gets their own little personal package. There they are and they're ready to go in the oven, taste buds. 375 for about 12 to 15 minutes. We've got our tray of ham buns. Very exciting. The big reveal. See all that ooey gooey cheese. Yum. It tastes just like my mom's. Taste buds! They're ooey, they're gooey, they're salty, they're cheesy, and they are full of just a little bit of tomato tang. You have to make these ham and cheese buns just like my mom did for game day.