This is what hams can look like after they have sat in salt (sodium chloride) for 3.5 weeks. During that time they lost close to 14% of their weights as serum moved from the flash into the embedding salt. As I write they are sitting in the refrigerator for a “burning off” period (1 week) [...]
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Bloody curr more or less can say sausages.
Our thanks to Trig for suggesting the post.
The best sauce in the world is hunger.
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Here are two stages in the life of air dried beef in the style of the bresaola of Lombardy. The piece in the foreground was taken out of the cure today, rinsed and tied, and hung in the aging room where it will dry and mature for 4-6 weeks. The two specimens in [...]
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The best sauce in the world is hunger.
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Okay, so the title is a reference to Canterbury Tales and probably indicative of nothing more or less than I do not know what to call this post about one of the many acts of charcuterie that I committed this early summer week. Time to move on…
The best sauce in the world is hunger.
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I am just about to blow out the door to catch a train to NYC to meet up with Mike Pardus, Kris Ray and a bunch of other culinarians for a walking tour through the markets and eateries of China Town, so I am not going to spend too many words on this post.
Here is [...]
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I took this picture of forty pounds of fat flensed from the outside of pork loins (fatback) yesterday (6.19.09). I used some of the fat for salami and and some I cured as lardo. I’ll follow up with shots of the salami (I made 100 pounds) later in the weekend.
The best sauce in the [...]
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Last Sunday I wrote about how I acted on an urge to make a batch of Tuscan style salami. The post outlined the process up to the beginning of the fermentation of the meat. Today’s post picks up the process on Wednesday when I retrieved the meat from the refrigerator in my garage and ground [...]
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I must be more of an idiot than even my 9th Grade math teacher believed me to be. The guy was a former Wehrmacht commando and competitive water skier so you can imagine how convincing his opinions were.
Sunday (6/7) was a beautiful sunny spring day. I had lots of garden related stuff to do: a [...]
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Jearl Pino, one of the guys who likes to come around to the farm and help with various projects, bought a Globe slicer from some guy who advertized it on Craigslist. I suppose the machine was too big to keep at Jearl’s house because he asked if he could leave it at [...]
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