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Three pork bellies are dry brining

Three pork bellies are dry brining. Salt and curing salt. Going to hit smoke them in about two weeks. It should give us about thirty pounds of bacon.

Brisket is marinading

Brisket is marinading. Well, about 5 pounds of it: with the social distancing we don't have the usual suspects, so trimmed out the hard fat to render into a sauce tomorrow, and froze the other half.

Well, the dry brining has to wait until tomorrow

Well, the dry brining has to wait until tomorrow: I woke up with 99.5 degree fever, and a sore throat. So 1,300mg of 8 hour Tylenol, a warm sweater, and curling up bingeing Supernatural. We have been...

Today dry brining the three pork bellies for bacon…

Today dry brining the three pork bellies for bacon, then see if I can fit anything else in the fridge to brine.

The thin sliced picnic ham and our meat slicer that did it’s usua

The thin sliced picnic ham and our meat slicer that did it's usual fine job, leading to what apparently will be it's usual annoying cleaning (I never have: it's always wonderful people around me that...

Split pea soup with thin sliced bacon on Dutch ryebread

Split pea soup with thin sliced bacon on Dutch ryebread.

Rye bread take two. Larger glass pan…

Rye bread take two. Larger glass pan, molasses rather than brown sugar. Still drier than I want. Next pass increasing hydration, lowering temperature, shortening the bake.