by @WidowPage Most bacon recipes are either sweet or savory. Yesterday, we did a cure with maple syrup, so today, we'll go with a savory taste. I got this recipe from here. Assemble the ingredients into a large plastic bag and shake to mix. 1/4 cup salt 1/2 cup brown sugar 2 tablespoons black pepper 1/2 teaspoon ground …

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by @WidowPage Thank you so much for sticking with me and following along on this process. I'm really enjoying this project and I would especially like to thank Bob for allowing me to use his blog. So let's cure this piggy's belly! I've cut it up into smaller pieces so we can try a couple of different cures. I'm using a …

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by @WidowPage Before I show you the curing process, we need to talk about salt and how it turns pork belly into bacon. Curing doesn’t happen without salt. If you look back into the history of bacon, humans all over the world were packing pork belly into salt to preserve the meat. The Chinese and Europeans started …

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by @WidowPage Yesterday as I muddled through a data reconciliation, my oldest daughter texted me “Your meat is here”. My daughters aren’t really that interested in my bacon curing projects but they knew I had been waiting for 100 lbs of pork belly to arrive on my front porch. My youngest even obliged me with a picture. …

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By @WidowPage This isn’t the way I intended to start this blog. I imagined my first post would be pictures unveiling huge boxes of soon-to-be bacon and describing the mouth watering ways I would convert it into bacon, but my pork belly order has yet to arrive. It was supposed to leave Iowa on Monday, August 21 and get …

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Thank you to all who attended my session on "Passive Security for Hostile Environments" back on the 3rd of this month. I consider it an honor to be part of such a wonderful lineup. I just received my evaluations and comments, and am very happy to report that the results were extremely positive. Thank you very much to …

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I'm extremely proud to be speaking at the upcoming 24 Hours of PASS: Data Security and Data Quality webinar on May 3-4 2017. For years now I've been wanting to present for 24 Hours of PASS, and I'm very excited and grateful for the opportunity! If you're not familiar, 24 Hours of PASS is a series of 24 free webcasts …

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At last month's SQL Saturday in Chicago, we had two great distinctions: We were SQL Saturday #600, a milestone! (But weren't SQL Saturday numbers going away?) We also were the first SQL Saturday to use the new logo, which is just one part of the major rebranding project undertaken by PASS last year. At PASS Summit …

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Spring is upon us! It's slowly getting warmer outside (with a few final insults of snow and freezing temperatures mixed in) and that can only mean one thing: SQL Saturday in Madison, Wisconsin is fast approaching – it's actually this Saturday! I'm very proud to once again be on the schedule to present at one of my …

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SQL Saturday Chicago 2017 is fast approaching! After receiving a total of 131 abstracts submitted by 64 speakers, we're pleased to announce our schedule for the day. Thank you to all who submitted! Building a schedule like this is not easy, especially given the number and quality of abstracts received. We hope to see …

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