Virginia Ham Salad - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups cooked ham, diced
1 cup celery, diced
1 cup sweet pickle relish
4 hard-boiled eggs, finely chopped
1/4 cup mayonnaise, plus
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 teaspoon prepared mustard
12 medium tomatoes
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
12 lettuce leaves (optional)

Preparation

Combine ham, celery, pickle relish, eggs, mayo and mustard; mix well. Chill.
Cut tops from tomatoes; scoop out pulp, leaving shells intact.
Sprinkle inside of each tomato with 1/8 teaspoons salt, invert on paper towels; drain.
Spoon ham salad into tomato shells.
Serve on lettuce leaves.