Thanx, I'll check up on it. And yes, what swine eat has a direct impact of the flavor...we sometimes trap wild pigs down here and if they are like 40-50 or less and are female, we will feed the out for a couple of months on old bread or corn...then split 'em and grill/smoke 'em. Damn good eating.
Sometimes Costco has it if you go to one in a good neighborhood. Its about 20 bucks for 4 oz. Just let it get to room temperature, so the fat melts a little. serve with manchego or some figs.
I really prefer Bosc pears which I pair with some apple and cheese when I have a snifter of really nice Cognac.
If you want really good meat..mix some hard molasses in with the corn or fermented silage.....molasses makes dairy cows have really delicious milk as well...we mixed it into all the feed and put a mineral molasses block out for game to lick on all year.
was at a party with a bunch of shared foods. Deviled Eggs Jalapeno poppers baked and wrapped with bacon Bacon wrapped shrimp Hummus and veggies Chips and Salsa Nothing too big. Filipino Egg rolls (lumpia) is always good. You can buy frozen in most grocery stores and fry them up. The sauce is just ketchup and pineapple juice cooked together to dip it in. Love swedish style meatballs. Just buy a big bag of frozen meatballs at costco or Trader Joes. Cookin in BBQ sauce, Sweet and Sour Sauce or gravy like they do at Ikea. Keep in a slow cooker with a box of toothpicks next to it.
My mother used to sprinkle brown sugar on pineapple chunks and then wrap them with portions of bacon strips which she would secure with a toothpick. You then broil them in the oven until the bacon is cooked. Pretty damned tasty. She did something similar with chicken liver replacing the pineapple and omitting the brown sugar. Not bad for a savory dish.
We hired our favorite gourmet taco place in Eugene to cater our son's wedding reception...was a big hit...laid out all the choices and you could go with tostada, taco, whatever you wanted to build...warm chips..guac...all the good stuff..great party food
Yes, yes, yes, of course this requires a rather full bodied red. We usually drink Cabernet Sauvignon with our red sauced Italian food. If you prefer an Italian red, I'd go with Barbe Love tostadas. Also love some fresh corn chips with guacamole, salsa and bean dip. You need all three so you can switch around so you don't get tired of just one kind. An ice cold coke or an ice cold Dos Equis ambar is great for washing it down (just for medicinal purposes, you understand).
Thanx...4 oz would only piss me off and there's not a Costco within 100 miles of me. I wonder if they can ship that? Since it's cured I assume no refrigeration is needed? ...what about this much larger portion?; https://www.tienda.com/products/jam...MIltHM0Ofn5QIV4SCtBh3GhAVpEAQYAiABEgL7gPD_BwE
I assume that it is air cured for years and more than likely vacuum packed it would be OK at room temperature for quite some time Until delivery)...but once it's open, yeah, I'm sure it would need to be refrigerated. I've bought vacuum packed cured bone in slices of country right off the shelf.
Loaded with salt. You might have bought it online but I've never seen vacuum packed cured bacon in a store. Of course I've only lived in four states, two on the West coast, one on the East coast and one right in the middle of the country. Also, you might be older and more experienced, I'm only in my early 70s.
Not cured bacon, cured country ham, and yes, country ham is very much cured with salt but I usually let mine sit in water for a little bit. As far as age, between the 2 of us, you're still the "elder statesman".
Wouldn't be surprised if the bigger Sam's club might have it...the one in Albany has a huge deli section...I've bought small portions of Prosciutto there before.
Ham you say. Yeah, I think most if not all is dry cured. At least the good ones are. Boeing once took a payment on a 747 from Poland in the form of Polish hams. Which reminds me of the best party food I ever had. My mom once took a nice ham and coated it with cloves, brown sugar and baked it until it had a nice glaze. Then she stuck pineapple chunks on the ham with toothpicks. She then baked it some more. Now she stuck on maraschino cherries and sweet pickled slices of crab apple and baked a little more. Lastly she stuck on some chunks of sweet pickled watermelon rind. She served it buffet style on a platter with a knife and serving utensil. Serve that with some cocktail sized rye bread and various spreads maybe some cheese and you're in heaven. She did that for me that my roommate and I had in which a Tektronix Division manager, who has a street on the Tektronix campus named after him, attended among a bunch of others. The ham was a huge hit. My future wife was there and we had some weed smoking out in the carport. My wife to be complained and said she didn't want to attend any parties I had where weed was smoked. That was the end of my weed smoking days.
Yeah, my Mom used to do hams that way when I was a kid...of course, me and my Brother fought over the cherries instead of the ham. Go figure.
