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Makin Bacon
FlaPoolman
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Here is the 8 pounds of pork belly from the other night after the cure and smoke.

finally found the time to slice it all up

thats a lot of work for my little toy slicer in the background

and thats a lot of bacon 4 pounds = 4 quarts? :huh:

Also sliced up the beef roast for the Italian beef Sunday


Gonna be some good eats come Sunday :woohoo:

finally found the time to slice it all up

thats a lot of work for my little toy slicer in the background

and thats a lot of bacon 4 pounds = 4 quarts? :huh:

Also sliced up the beef roast for the Italian beef Sunday


Gonna be some good eats come Sunday :woohoo:
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Are you gonna give that bacon to steven so he can wrap those two whole shoulders worth of ABT's? :laugh:
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WoW that looks good!!! Both of those I will have to try
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Lookin' good Pat. My egg is under abput 12" of new snow with much more on the way. Eggin's on a temporary hold :laugh: while I keep plowing to stay ahead of the storm.
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Ain't touched it yet and it's killing me :(
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Shoot I'll make him a double batch for some of them shoulders :woohoo:
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Very nice Pat!! Wish I could taste that bacon!Molly
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LBGE, MBGE, SBGE , MiniBGE and a Mini Mini BGE -
For the beef search for Large Marge Italian beef its a great recipe,,,, never mind I found it
Season heavily a 4 to 5 lb sirloin tip roast with salt, pepper, oregano, and thyme- just cover the sucker. Place on a rack in your egg preheated to 375 indirect with drip pan- you want to save the drippings. Roast until your thermometer reads 130 in the center- perfect rare/med rare, you want it tender. Remove and allow to cool. I like to wrap the meat at this point and refrigerate overnight so it slices better. Be sure to deglaze the drip pan with a little water and save all the drippings and broth you've created.
When ready to slice, fry up 3 tbs olive oil, 6 cloves sliced garlic, 2 green peppers and 2 red peppers (cored and sliced into 1 inch strips), 2 sliced med yellow onions. Sauté all this for 5 mins and add to a large stockpot. Add the drippings / broth from the beef.
If you have a meat slicer you're golden-- take your roast and slice it as thinly as you can. An electric knife will do the job too or carve away if you can do it thin! Place all the sliced meat and any new juices into the pot.
Add 2-3 cups beef stock, 1.5-2cups chicken stock, 1/2 cup dry white wine, and a bunch of chopped fresh parsley. Bring to a simmer and cook an hour + 10 mins or so. The meat should be fully cooked through and really tender. Add salt and pepper toward the end to taste- turn everything off and let it rest (overnight is fantastic if you have the patience - but it still tastes great immediately and you'll have plenty left over to see how tender it gets overnight).
If you live up north and can get good Italian sandwich rolls, go for it. Down here I settle for a good fresh French bread cut up. Dip the bread in the broth and pile it on with meat, peppers, etc. A good jar of hot giardinera (yet another Midwest purchase packed in oil, tough to find down here!), or roasted red peppers goes great.
Attached some links since I didn't take pics last time- will do so next time- enjoy!
Source; BGE Forum
Posted by Large Marge 12-17-07 -
Bill, I hope it lets up for you soon at least so you can clear a path to the egg
You coming to the Florida fest? -
I could send some up to the icefest but I heard the mailman said it's too cold to deliver
Hope everyone has a great time. -
Looking Gooooooood Pat
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Bill. Sorry to hear about your snow. We are in the middle of another rain storm that I am sure will be haeding your way in a week or so. Sorry.
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Ross, It smells great also. Wife has blood work in the morning, fasting, so I'm not allowed to fry up any tonight
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Very nice. I really enjoyed making mine, and I love eating it. I have a bag thawing in the fridge right now for this week end.
Enjoy it. Let us know how it tastes. I am surprised you didn't have a few cook's samples after slicing. -
See my reply to Ross :(
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Wow, that's a load of bacon. Looks great- sould be fun cooking up your own home made bacon. Congrats.
I got a slicer like yours, makes a racket but does the job well enough.
Enjoy! -
Pat
I had a path shoveled to the egg but it's covered over already and I've plowed for a second time. Must have gotten 12" of snow already if not more. I've run out of my normal places to stack the snow.
Regrettably I'm unable to make it to FL Fest. -
Hey Dave, thanks...more good news :laugh: .
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I heard Carwash Mike has a nice plow

Come south I could use a hand with the cooking
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Right now heading south sounds real good! Unfortunately I believe I'll have to plow at least two more times (and I hope it's only two more times). :laugh:
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Pat...You done that belly justice!!
Beef looks great, too! (the superbowl party is next Thursday night, right? When we are in Malabar??) :pinch:
Have a blast this weekend, and awaiting feedback on that bacon!
Thanks for posting!
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Clay, I think I got that 20 years ago for about $30 and it still works fine.
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Shoot LC even the leftovers will be gone by then
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Story of my life....a few days late, and a dollar or ten short....

(we will be in Malabar Thurs FYI). TX Roadhouse??
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That's a nice pile of bacon!
Today I found pork belly's for 2.99 @ lb, don't know if that's good, but going to go back and get a couple "chunks".
Its handy to know that 4lbs of sliced bacon = 1 gal.
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Pat, the bacon looks great and so does the beef. Some day I'll get a slicer and then I'll be asking questions. Have a good day and a great Super Bowl Sunday! :woohoo: Go Colts! but if the Saints win i'm good with that.
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Dayum Pat, That all looks awesome! wish I wasn't so far away!
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Does that ever look good!

You are cookin up a storm down there. -
Looking real good Pat, as you can see in my post I goofed up big time on my smoking the Bacon.
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Looks great.
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