I love pastrami and Montreal smoked meat: tender, very tasty beef brisket cured, smoked and steamed to an umptuous pile of goodness. Unfortunately beef brisket is expensive, relatively speaking: the cheapest I could find was $5 a pound. My go-to…
A few weeks ago a local grocery store had pork picnic shoulder for $0.77 per pound so I picked up eight: seven in the freezer and one for the barbeque. Nice fatty pork shoulder is perfect for low and slow…
I love schnitzel. Thinly sliced pork, chicken or veal that’s pounded thin, coated in flour, egg and bread crumbs, fried golden and crispy. Served hot with a squeeze of lemon or room temperature on a sandwich, I can’t decide which is…
While I was smoking the pork shoulder I was also roasting a whole leg of pork in my oven. I was looking after a lunch and needed both meats ready at the same time, otherwise I would have used my…
First off let me say this isn’t pulled pork. I don’t like the mushy texture and sauce of pulled pork: I like slices of succulent smoked pork shoulder on a bun with a hit of mustard barbeque sauce. I had…
I’ve been buying whole pork loins lately: they come with a lovely pork loin for about two thirds and sirloin for the last third. The loin is very nice but the sirloin on these pieces is jagged and just isn’t…
I had enjoyed double smoked bacon when I worked at a German butcher shop during high school but haven’t seen it much since. It was my monthly or quarterly bacon prep and I was smoking a pork belly and a…
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…
Every year in Southern Ontario we get about a month of cheap pork: whole legs and shoulders for ninety nine cents a pound. I was at Fortinos on Saturday and picked up two whole shoulders. When I got home I…