When chores are done, it’s time to take care of business in the kitchen. We got six pounds of trimmings from the pig we bought earlier in the year. They’ve been sitting in the chest freezer, waiting to be turned into sausage. Loose breakfast sausage is the easiest. No casings to stuff. Just add your […]
When my wife and I bought half a pig from our friend Mike, we chose to have some of the roasts smoked by a local processor and we’re glad we did. We made this incredible ham the other night, finished in the oven with a glaze of sour cherries. We’ve done a lot of cooking […]
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My sister and her husband were visiting over the weekend so we dove into the chest freezer for a piece of the pork shoulder we bought from our friend Mike to prepare their version of carnitas for dinner. Carnitas, for the uninitiated, are (is?) basically the Mexican version of pulled pork. In this case, the […]
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