Reminiscing about family holidays, featuring turkey at Thanksgiving and ham at Easter, I found myself craving a good old fashioned ham dinner with all the trimmings, even though it was still August.

In all my years of restaurant reviewing, I could not recall ever seeing it on the menu, with the exception being that one holiday.

While turkey is king at Thanksgiving, turkey dinners with gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce are on the menu at many family restaurants year-round. And if you go to Gregg’s, you can top it off with their terrific pumpkin pie.

Social media prompted over a dozen suggestions, and not a one panned out.

Three people suggested I cook my own, with one person even offering her recipe. The problem is that my wife doesn’t like ham, which may be grounds for divorce, and it is difficult to find a small one. We did try buying one and freezing most of it, but it lost its flavor and freshness.

We drove to Coventry, where someone suggested Gentleman Farmer, where the dinner proved to be a grilled ham steak.

Wes’s in Olneyville has ham on its menu, along with the traditional ribs, pulled pork and BBQ, but it is a different meal entirely.

Someone even suggested a restaurant in Florida, but Coventry and Olneyville were as far as I wanted to go.

I called my Edgewood friend Donna Lee, former Providence Journal food editor, and even she couldn’t think of a restaurant. She remembered the great ham and beans suppers that churches and granges used to hold. And we recalled the Easter dinners at the Shriners in Edgewood.

I scoured restaurant menus on line, turning up empty at popular family restaurants like Gregg’s, Governor Francis, Chelo’s and Applebee’s.

The best ham off the bone in Rhode Island is at Spoonem’s, where a breakfast of ham, eggs home fries and toast is as good as it gets, but it is not an Easter dinner.

A couple of people suggested Cracker Barrel, but we found their ham dinner too southern for us. Hold the okra!

Looks like we will have to wait until Easter and invite ourselves to our son’s or daughter’s, unless someone can find a restaurant out there that serves a good traditional Easter ham dinner.