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As you get comfortable making a certain dish, or preparing a certain ingredient you gain confidence to change it and add your own touch to it.    This is where I am at with making Bacon right now.    I feel comfortable taking my basic bacon recipe which is taken almost directly from  Ruhlman’s Basic Dry Cure [...]

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Guanciale is something I’ve been planning on making for quite some time. I had a pork jowl from Richardson Farms sitting in the freezer and a heavy weight of procrastination on my shoulders for quite some time before I finally decided to actually make it. The obvious place to turn to for the recipe is [...]

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I’ve been wanting to make Pastrami for quite some time, I used to make it by getting pre-brined packages of corned beef and smoking it but I’ve never made it from scratch before. Thankfully I have my copy of the Bible and a recipe was only a few page turns away. I didn’t want to [...]

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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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