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If There Was Just One More Preserve You Need to Make…

Posted in Curing and Smoking on November 27, 2011 | 35 Comments »

I had planned to write about something different from this but dinner just changed everything.  I was happily plodding away on a tomato sauce to add to homemade polenta when I reached into the fridge, pulled out a jar I haven`t touched since August and cracked it open.  I dipped a spoon into it`s depths, [...]

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Herbes Salées (Salt Herb Preserve) – Recipe and How-To

Posted in Curing and Smoking on August 16, 2011 | 24 Comments »

We’re going to start our roundup of weekend preserving recipes (there are 19 and counting – so the rest of the month will be an abundance of how-to’s and recipes) with Herbes Salées (Salted Herbs).  This was one of the most requested items between Facebook and the comments of yesterday’s posts asking what you wanted to [...]

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How to Make Breakfast Sausage Patties (Charcutepalooza)

Posted in Curing and Smoking, tagged on May 15, 2011 | 10 Comments »

This was our first attempt at breakfast sausage patties – I`m not sure I was thrilled with the results though I will definitely make these again and learned a lot in the process – part of which was just how easy these are to make. Here`s what I found interesting: It was surprisingly easy to [...]

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Charecutepalooza – Hot Smoking Sunday!

Posted in Curing and Smoking on April 15, 2011 | 5 Comments »

It’s time again for Charcutepalooza.  This month’s challenge involved smoke – it specifically called for Smoked Salmon. Smoking is something that really excites me – I love the heritage and tradition that surrounds such a simple act.  Dana and I have committed to getting a smoker – as soon as we have a place that [...]

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Charcutepalooza – How to Cure Pork Belly to Make Bacon at Home

Posted in Curing and Smoking on February 15, 2011 | 13 Comments »

This was truly down to the wire!  Dana and I decided to join the year-long Charcuterie jam (aptly named Charcutepalooza) with less than 3 hours remaining in the registration process.  Shortly thereafter I was on a plane to San Diego and there was little time in the month.  I knew the first month was going to [...]

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11 Days of Feastmas – Midday snack – Duck Prosciutto

Posted in Curing and Smoking, tagged , on December 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I technically started cooking our Christmas dinner on October 28th with the Lemon Confit project.  The rinds from those lemons will form a key part of our stuffing and I love that there has been a long process of curing to transform groceries into something we cannot readily purchase.  I love the romance of it [...]

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Easy Preserves for the holidays… Lemon Confit

Posted in Curing and Smoking on October 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Back to preserving – options for local are diminishing so we’ll do the odd batch of something special – there will be 3 or 4 things made in the next month or so which will be part of our late December and early January celebrations with family and friends.  Todays batch is lemon confit – [...]

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