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Charlie has a new found talent. It turns out, my fella is amazing at curing meats. He has turned our kitchen into a science lab a la charcuterie, and I get all the benefits. His first experiment: home cured bacon.

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Ingredients:
3 lbs Pork Belly (we got ours from Marin Sun Farms, we like happy pigs)
1/4 cup basic dry cure
about 1/2 cup good quality maple syrup

Method:
Press all sides of the pork belly into the cure and place in a Ziplock bag
Add syrup to the bag and rub all over the pork belly
Refrigerate the belly for 7 days, flipping the bag every other day
After 7 days remove the meat from the cure and rinse it thoroughly
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees
Roast the meat for about 2 hours until an internal temp of 150 degrees
When it is finished, be sure to try a piece right out of the oven. Prepare yourself to be amazed.

*Basic dry cure:
1 lb salt
8 oz sugar
2 oz. pink salt


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Comments
Cindy:

Wow!! Looks delicious!!! By the way, I just started watching the documentary Food Inc. and now I want happy pigs too. Poor animals. =T

(02.07.11)
Sara Atkins:

That is great Cindy! You should check out Marin Sun Farms Meat CSA. They are great to their stock and the end product is A-mazing.

(02.08.11)