By its very nature, Charcuterie is a slow food. Preparing to make it takes time, actually making it takes time and it takes time to wait until it’s ready to eat. There is nothing about the process that can be considered quick. Just think about it, even making the least time-consuming sausage takes a couple [...]
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Bresaola on my Mind
Posted in Charcutepalooza, Cooking, Family, Food, Italy, tagged beef, bresaola, charcutepalooza, charcuterie, cured, curing, food52, nostalgia, punk domestics on December 1, 2011 | 7 Comments »
This month’s Charcutepalooza challenge was all about curing a hunk of meat. Fully convinced that I didn’t have an appropriate space to hang meat for 3-4 weeks, I figured I was finally unable to complete a challenge. Right at the end, too. Rotten luck. However, in thinking it out amidst all my whining, I realized [...]
Lady Galantine’s Lover
Posted in Charcutepalooza, tagged charcutepalooza, charcuterie, Chicken, Cooking on October 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I saw her from across the room. She was perfection. Studying her grace, elegance and beauty, I wanted her. Badly. I didn’t care if she was alone and I didn’t care that others wanted her; she would be mine. Mine to ravish. I reached her side as she quietly sat there, in the coolness of [...]
A Duck Walks Into a Bar …
Posted in Charcutepalooza, Food, Wine, tagged charcutepalooza on September 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A duck walks into a bar. And he says to the bartender “Got any cherries?” The bartender says “No, I don’t have any cherries.” The duck walks out, sorely disappointed. So the next day, he walks back into the bar, asks the same question, gets the same answer. The day after, he walks back into [...]
The One Where I Make Pork Feet Jelly
Posted in Charcutepalooza, Cooking, Food, tagged charcutepalooza, charcuterie, headcheese, Jalapeño, pork, trotters on August 15, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Nearly every month, the Charcutepalooza challenge becomes a challenge just getting the proper ingredients. Nowhere in my town is pork belly, fatback, beef bung or duck breasts. Not this month. This month, the main ingredient is easily found …
Indelible.
Posted in Charcutepalooza, Cooking, Food, Retrospective, tagged charcutepalooza, charcuterie, friend, friendship, Italy on July 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Indelible … that which cannot be eliminated, forgotten or changed. Here we are, a bit over halfway through our “Year of Meat,” or “Charcutepalooza.” Less half is left in a challenge that has already left an indelible imprint on my life. The learning curve has been steep in spots. The results have been sometimes sketchy, [...]
Winner, Winner, Chicken Sausage Dinner!
Posted in Charcutepalooza, Cooking, Food, tagged Bell pepper, charcutepalooza, Cook, grinder, Home, Italian sausage, meat, Olive oil, Pasta, ravioli, roasted, sausage, tomato on June 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We knew we were in for trouble the moment we got the phone call that said “I’ve got 30 pounds of pork…wanna make sausage?” A friend of ours had gotten a meat grinder for Christmas and had yet to use it. We’d been talking about Charcutepalooza with him and that we were going to be [...]
May. Merguez. Mmm.
Posted in Charcutepalooza, Cooking, Culinary School, Family, Food, tagged charcutepalooza, lamb, sausage on May 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »
About May…you know, the month not the person. (I don’t actually know anyone named May, so any ambiguity is of my own making.) Wikipedia has a little to say about May: May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 [...]
Bacon, Beer & Breakfast
Posted in ALZ, Charcutepalooza, Cooking, Family, Food, tagged charcutepalooza, charcuterie on April 15, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Let me start off by saying I am an incredible procrastinator. I’d look up whether I am the biggest one, but I’m too lazy. That said, I was very excited about this month’s Charcutepalooza challenge. Canadian Bacon!! I can hear the ukuleles playing, now. After all, Hawaiian Pizza is my favorite! There was an entire [...]
Sláinte is Táinte
Posted in Charcutepalooza, Cooking, Family, Food, Retrospective, tagged Brisket, charcutepalooga, charcuterie, Corned beef, Hash (food), Home, Pastrami, Sandwich on March 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »
This month’s Charcutepalooza challenge was to brine something…you know, like a chicken or a brisket, and completely transform that ordinary meat into something luscious and completely elevated outside itself. Sounds like a pretty tall order, doesn’t it?? I’d actually corned a beef brisket once before and while it was good, I knew it could’ve been [...]
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