Buy whole animals and use all parts
Last weekend grade A turkeys were $1 a pound so I bought three fourteen pound birds. I know a deal when I see it and normally only purchase meat when it’s on sale and then I try to get a…
Category Food
Creme Fraiche
I still had a lot of 35% creme in my fridge so I was looking around for things to do with it and came across a recipe for creme fraiche. Let me start off by saying I’ve never had creme…
Big Green Egg Plate Setter
A few weeks back I discussed smoking on my Big Green Egg and using indirect heat: I was able to accomplish this by using the Plate Setter. For indirect cooking you remove the grate, insert the plate setter with a…
Chicken Confit
Delving further into Charcuterie I had been thinking about confit: slow cooking meat in a fat at low temperature. Traditionally it’s done with duck legs in duck fat but I had neither so I used what I had: a big…
Smoked Hunters Sausage
Our freezer was getting overcrowded with pork so I decided to take out sixteen pounds and make some sausage over the weekend. My family seems to like smoked sausage the best so I made Hunters sausage (forgot the German name, sorry). …
Homemade Ice Cream
Homemade ice cream was one of those items that pushed me into making things from scratch. A few years ago my wife bought me an ice cream maker for my birthday: I tried a bunch of the recipes that came…
Slow roasting
As part of my wife’s sandwich catering I handle all the meat production: curing, cooking, slicing. I had read in a few places about cooking whole cuts of meat at a very low temperature for extended periods but wasn’t able…
Eating to the bone
Found whole pork legs (hams) for $0.69 a pound so I picked up two. I love pork and keep finding new uses for it. After trimming I roasted the bones to see how much meat I could get from what…
Cold Smoked Bacon
I took advantage of the freezing weather to cold smoke my latest batch of bacon. Until now I’ve been hot smoking it: working with a temperature of 200 degrees Fahrenheit in my Big Green Egg I smoked the bacon for…