Jon In Albany

Work in the kitchen progressed today, but before that happend I had to get the Modernist bacon hanging. The pork belly spent a week curing i...

With the help of the internet and a really nice librarian named Terry, I have in my possession the bacon recipe from Modernist Cuisine . If ...

Projects 11 & 12 and Thanksgiving Wrap-up Project 11 was a dry cure and I went with a Tuscan Salami recipe. After the salami had lost...

Curing Well, the Charcutepalooza Challenge is winding down. And this isn't a project you can finish at the last minute so when I had a...

This month the challenge is to cure something. I'm going to go back to one of the first things I cured and try to improve it a little. T...

First a flashback to Project 2 - that pancetta is the best I have ever made. Fantastic stuff. Returning to Project 3 - We had corned beef ...

This has been a very busy couple of weeks and my Charcutepalooza plans didn't go quite as planned. There have been 2 birthdays, a weeken...

Bacon Explosion! 4 out of 5 cardiologists surveyed do not recommend this. Way back in January of 2009, I read this article in the New York...