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There’s a reasonably new supermarket chain nearby called Sprouts Farmer’s Markets. It’s nice and close to our house and has some nice fresh produce and importantly cheap wine that doesn’t suck ( $10 for 3 bottles! ). In the Meat section I saw that they had some Grass Fed Beef steaks. I grabbed a couple [...]

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A quick post. I’ve been working on my pizza dough. I now have two pizza doughs that both give great results. One I can go through the whole process from flour to cooked pizza in about two hours, The other takes two or more days just to prepare the dough. This particular pizza I made [...]

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Recently I’ve had a hankering for some Split Pea Soup, usually something I associate with cold winters days … yet it’s the middle of summer. A few things led me to this urge. I had some ham bones from a ham I’d cured and smoked some time ago in the freezer ( My mother used [...]

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I was having some friends over for dinner and wanted to be very french, and just happened to have a lot of stuff stashed in my freezer that was perfect for it … Freshly cured pork belly, a bone from a home cured ham, duck legs, confit pork belly, and slow cooked beef ribs. I [...]

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I’ve been looking for a decent quality pork belly for a while now to make a good slab of bacon ( well not really bacon because it’s not smoked, but cured and dry hung ). I was about to hunt down some from a local farm when I found a secret stash down at wholefoods. [...]

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