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[MOPanfisher]

It was busy soaking up garlic butter.  I am not a big fan of corn directly on the grill, though if it's wrapped in the shuck to keep it from drying out, I am in.  the other way, good and charred to put into a salsa then I like it in direct contact.  what can I say, I have been told many times, "you ain't quite right".

[Walleyedmike]

13 hours ago, BilletHead said:

   Bacon!

     Been lacking on posts. So here we go. Bought a pork belly. Wanted to try my hand at doing bacon. This recipe I found is Asian inspired.

http://honest-food.net/2011/03/22/sichuan-bacon/

   The finished product and a test fry. Actually a pretty meaty belly but the first few cuts were a bit fatty. For dinner yesterday afternoon had this bacon and eggs. The bacon is really Asian flavored but the eggs fried in the fat did not seem to pick up the flavor,

 BilletHead approved !

  

 

Dang BilletHead, great minds think alike! I bought three bellies at Sam's Club a few weeks ago. I did a cure with Morton's Tender Quick and brown sugar for ten days. Sprinkled the bellies with onion powder, garlic powder and cracked black pepper last night. Smoked in two batches today, one for eight hours with pitmaster's choice powder (mixture of cherry, maple and hickory). The other batch was smoked with apple for ten and a half hours. They'll all rest in the fridge wrapped in saran wrap until Wednesday or Thursday to be sliced and packaged. I sliced some unsmoked bacon this morning to fry for an omelet and it was really good, can't wait to try it after the smoke! Gonna have around 30 lbs of bacon in the fridge, hope a pound or so makes it for BLT's next summer! 

 

WM 

[BilletHead]

    Wowzer!

Nice Walleyedmike. Bacon!

BilletHead

[ness]

Had some pasta, vodka and cream. Picked up a can of crushed tomatoes and some bread. A little garlic, olive oil. Mix it well togedda and  -- voila! It tasted good when I put it in my mouth  

 

[Mitch f]

12 minutes ago, ness said:

Had some pasta, vodka and cream. Picked up a can of crushed tomatoes and some bread. A little garlic, olive oil. Mix it well togedda and  -- voila! It tasted good when I put it in my mouth  

 

Looks edible! You left da butta in the microwave more than 20 seconds though! ?

[MOPanfisher]

Back when we used to butcher hogs we cured the bacons and hams out, at first the bacon was possibly the saltiest thing I ever ate, but quickly learned to make it right, and had some of the most delicious bacon ever.  Honestly never really considered just buying a belly, (face palm moment).  I have a brand new, still in the box electric smoker sitting on my porch, hmmmmm.

 

[Flysmallie]

1 hour ago, ness said:

 

Well aren't you fancy. 

[Flysmallie]

[Flysmallie]

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[ness]

2 hours ago, Mitch f said:

Looks edible! You left da butta in the microwave more than 20 seconds though! ?

You nailed it. 10 was too short, 20 was too long. 

You're  looking pretty close there buddy.