I just finished making beef stock for the first time. It smells amazing and is nice and gelatinous. I wanted to drink a cup of it but refrained, for now. The pure white layer of fat that congealed at the top was beautiful. I saved the fat, not sure what to do with it though, [...]
I have been tweeting (what an awful verb) more than blogging (speaking of awful verbs) recently. So for that one, maybe two followers that I have on the blog, make sure to check out the profundity of my twitter.
I bought 2 ~9lb pork shoulders (blade). These broke down into:
8 lbs of cubed meat and 2lbs of cubed fat for sausage – 1/2 is frozen, the other 1/2 got turned into 5lbs of Sweet Italian Sausage
3lb blade roast (dinner tonight w/ braised cabbage)
~3lb of bones and scraps – frozen, to become stock
2lbs of extra [...]
Are there finer words to be found on the website of your local Latin grocery store then these?
We sell whole pigs, whole lambs and whole goats, anything edible on a cow or pig is for sale in our meat shop.
On the stove, a 15 Qt stock pot filled with chicken carcasses, water, some herbs and vegetables. Soon to be stock.
a 2lb bucket of rendered pork fat “the pride of Atlixco, Puebla Mexico” it says on the label
a half empty bowl of bacon fat
2 slices of Jamon Iberica
1/3 lb of Jamon Serrano
1/3 lb Prosciutto (soon [...]
I have been obsessed with the craft of charcuterie for nearly a year. This obsession has been purely theoretical up to this point, in that I have only read about it and eaten the end products and not actually done it myself. As of last Sunday I moved from theory to practice.
I bought 3 pork [...]
I have moved the nothoo blog from http://nothoo.com to http://blog.nothoo.com
At some point last Summer I decided I was too fat. I have lost 40+ pounds and am within 10 pounds of my goal weight. This was accomplished, in typical geek fashion, by creating a spreadsheet and tracking my weight (along with the obligatory regression analysis) as well as my caloric intake. Essentially a streamlined [...]
Ok, some dude that claims he will change everything won the election. I so totally believe him. Of course he will change everything… moving on.
I got laid off and am unemployed looking to become underemployed so I can make some money but still spend lots of time with my kids.
Getting laid off has gotten me [...]