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Potato Buns

November 25th, 2015 · No Comments · Recipes

I try to stay away from starchy foods like bread and pasta, but the idea of smokey pulled pork on a freshly baked potato bun sounded too good to pass on. It really was a stellar menu: the pork shoulder from one of our friend Mike’s pigs, cooked low and slow on our home smoker; […]

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Who’s Your Local Pit Master?

September 12th, 2015 · No Comments · eating local

And now, for something totally different: bacon-wrapped smoked turkey from our local barbecue guru, Craig Phalen. Craig–aka Un Petit Cochon on Facebook–sets up his giant smoker on Saturdays outside the Masons lodge in Coila, just a couple of miles down the road from us on the outskirts of Cambridge. Except he’s gotten so popular, weeks […]

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News from Up North

June 1st, 2014 · No Comments · News from Up North

We’d been hungering for it all winter long and yesterday our heart’s desire finally reappeared: that would be the pulled pork sandwich stand at the Masonic lodge in Coila. You may remember me writing about Craig Phalen, the chef at our local county prison whose true passion is making barbecue in his giant, pig-shaped smoker. […]

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