Category Archives: Charcuterie

Charcutepalooza March- Corned Beef

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

This month’s challange was to use a wet salt brine to make Corn Beef for St. Patricks Day.. I picked up a whole Brisket, and was quite surprised at just how fatty it was.. I felt that part of it … Continue reading →

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Charcutepalooza February- Guanciale

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

I decided to keep it both tradional and yet mix it up a little at the same time. While we have often made our own homemade bacon, I have always used the pork Jowl as part of our head cheese, … Continue reading →

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Guanciale-Its Ready..

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

So here is the finished Product, Sliced and ready for me to use in my planned recipes that I will be sharing soon, I am going Tradional for one, and Funky for the other..I should point out that while I … Continue reading →

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Homemade Baked Beans

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

The Bacon is ready, at least if you want to eat it fresh, which we did a few peices, the rest is now hanging to cure and be used in a number of wonderful ways. Given that I had homemade … Continue reading →

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Pink Salt is not Pink in Canada

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

Its worth noting that if you are using the Charcuterie book by Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn to follow along in regards to the year of meat and you live in canada, Pink Salt is only pink if you order … Continue reading →

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Fresh Pork Belly with Ribs – 13.2 pds

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

Whole Fresh Pork Belly with Ribs still attached A nice rack of pork ribs, I split into two portions, each one enough to feed two peaple. Eight one pd (or close to one pd) peices of bacon to be.. hmmm, … Continue reading →

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Charcutepalooza January – Duck Prosciutto.

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

I like these blog challanges, Looking forward to canning a recipe per month and now I am going to aim for one or two new recipes per month in regards to Charcuterie, or in layman terms the ” craft of salting, … Continue reading →