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Posted in Cooking on Nov 28th, 2011
I was at work on Saturday when I hear a voice from across the room “Hey Paul, do you want some ducks ?”. A rather strange question to hear at work, but of course I immediately said yes. Turns out the guy had gone out for a quick hunt before work. I headed on out [...]
Posted in Cooking on Mar 13th, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Cooking on Jan 23rd, 2011
Scrounging in the fridge for some breakfast I found a bowl of meat pulled from smoked ham hocks that I had made a pea and ham soup with… Perfect for some Breakfast Tacos. I made sure there were no sneaky foot bones bones in the meat and threw it into a hot pan adding a [...]
Cassoulet is a fairly epic dish that many home cooks shy away from because it requires a lot of time, some recipes call for 3 days of preperation/cooking. It’s a peasant dish and they were too busy working to be cooking for three days straight. I’ll guarantee they worked a lot harder for longer hours [...]
Posted in Cooking on Nov 27th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Cooking on Oct 2nd, 2010
It’s been a long time since I’ve made sausages so I decided it was well past time to get myself a large quantity of random pork bits and make some. A few weeks back I’d picked up a packet of dried Ghost Chilli’s and I was keen to use them for something. I hunted through [...]
Posted in Cooking on Jul 27th, 2010
On the weekend I was lucky enough to attend a Sous Vide party at Jack’s ( from Eating In a Box ) house. The place was filled with food/tech geeks, notably Ryan ( Nose To Tail @ Home ), Michael ( CookingForEngineers ) and Kent. Addie Broyles also attended ( Relish Austin ) along with [...]
Posted in Cooking on Jun 12th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Cooking on Jun 12th, 2010
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. [...]
Posted in Cooking on Mar 1st, 2010
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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