. sous vide . fermentation . dry curing .
I’ve spent most of my evening fixing interface issues on my blog and have finally added a search box on my top menu. I didn’t wanna do it this way because there’s already a search box right next door if you look at my site on a desktop but there’s no other way to do […]
Cooking tacos de carnitas sous vide is extremely simple and possibly the best way of cooking pork shoulder in general. Moreover, cooking carnitas sous vide should be in your recipe arsenal if you are looking for a guaranteed crowd pleaser that just requires basically only 20 active minutes of your time. Of course, if you […]
This is a really popular cut for dry-curing and a personal favorite. I know there’s some mysticism (sometimes a negative aura) surrounding dry-curing meat at home, as in that it might be dangerous, unsafe. I felt that way once and getting over the fear of screwing up or eating something that would make me sick […]
If you know how to cook a pork shoulder I’m sure you have a ton of friends. This piece of meat and I go way back to the time when I was, for whatever reason, getting into cooking. It was a dish I really wanted to try. Roasting a pork shoulder at home (in my […]
Ok, this is a couple of weeks late but happy 4th of July to America! I had an amazing time celebrating with the people I love and the food I love. If you have been following this blog, just a day before the 4th of July I attended a butchering lesson, and I was eager to […]
I chose the wrong time of the year to roast a 15-pound pork shoulder for sure. The heat wave that’s hitting southern California right now probably contributed to the amazing quality of the crackling I got. I mean, it is HOT and DRY in here! But that didn’t stop me. I wanted to make pork tamales really […]
I have posted on oven roasted pork shoulder in the past at least once (check out this pork shoulder roast post. It was one of my first posts so be kind…) At the time, I was cooking frantically. I was reading a ton about food and I was trying to learn as quickly as possible how […]
I know… still, tomatoes and salad and grilling season out there and today’s post could be a holiday meal. I personally think that delicious food like slow roasted meats should be more common throughout the year if we love them so much. Specially because they are so easy to make and the only thing deterring […]