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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 decided to turn my Pastured Pork Shoulder into one of my all time favourite dishes Cochinita Pibil. I’ve posted a recipe for this before so I won’t go into too much detail. Traditionally the Pibil is served with a red onion pickle. I also had some blue corn flour that I’ve been saving to [...]

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It’s been some time since I last posted a recipe on here, so I decided it was time to cook up something a bit different and document it. This is purely my own creation, I had no idea how the Bourbon Marinade would go, but figured it was worth a shot. I didn’t really measure [...]

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Both of these recipes were shamelessly stolen from Smitten Kitchen. I love onions especially when they’re cooked long enough for the sweetness to come out fully ( I once had an onion tart that was sweet enough you would happily eat it for dessert, shame I never got the recipe ). Obviously onion by itself [...]

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This is both awesome and repulsive. A while back I saw photos of a pizza made up on McDonalds cheeseburgers, totally forgot about it until today where out of the blue I remembered it. I recruited some willing participants and made it for lunch at work. It tasted great, but is sitting in my belly [...]

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