by @WidowPage When I started writing this series of posts, this was the one I couldn't wait to do. But in addition to my fabulous and glamorous DBA job, I also coach my daughter's volleyball team and that is about to kill me! I felt like I couldn't do this post the justice it deserved if I just whipped this post out so …

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by @WidowPage I've made red wine bacon before and it's become one of my favorites. It's not something you would eat for breakfast, but it goes so well into many recipes. Here's my list: Grilled Peach and Bacon Salad Spaghetti with Beef and Bacon Chicken Bacon Flatbread Mushroom Bacon Casserole It's also great in stews …

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by @WidowPage Thank you so much for sticking with me but this is when the bacon gets really good! I got this recipe from here. Let's start with a gratuitous pork belly photo. It's a nice piece of belly. It's earned a bourbon cure. Use the following ingredients: 1 cup of bourbon, divided 1/2 cup Kosher salt 2 tsp curing …

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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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