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Can Can

I’m part of a canning club where we send cans of things we make to each other across the country. I’m a terrible participant cause my lazy ass hasn’t sent anything in yet. Butt soon I will. PROMISE.

Tonight I received delish Pear Port & Thyme Conserve in the most ADORABLE fucking jar. Dumb good.

Pear Port and Thyme Conserve Pear Port and Thyme Conserve

Think I’ll make some more of this eggplant I been sweating. A sauteed, olive oil and garlic and red wine vinegar marinated batch of sumptuousness. You can lube with it.

Marinated Eggplant Marinated Eggplant

Am I right?

The Hanker Station: Ribs, Pate, Holiday Drinks and Jerk!

Can’t get you outta my mind…

Bittman’s oven smoked ribs.

Putting anything in little individual jars.

Coquito.

And still working the beef jerky

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The Hanker Station: Pork (duh)

Right now, I’m mostly just into pig. Whole pig. Me and a friend ordered a suckling pig from Los Paisanos which we are going to whole roast this weekend. And I’m also looking to roast a whole huge fucking pig next spring. In fact, I’m looking to buy a used or rent La Caja China to do so. Any leads?

It’d be really great to get this off the ground before the weekend hits, so if anyone does have any idea of where I’d procure one of these magical boxes of cooking pork from, I’d really appreciate it. The video I linked to should give you a good idea of how great these boxes can be for roasting pork, and I look forward to getting the chance to actually try one out for myself.

So if you’re a pig-roasting connoisseur with your own La Caja China, sitting back and watching (or maybe taking a quick cheekybingo.com break instead) the pork go from raw to awesome, let me know. I’d be happy to tell tales of how well it went, too, so if you get me in the know, the show isn’t too far away. I look forward to hearing from any fellow pork-roasting enthusiasts.

Pic from www.foundshit.com –> thanks!

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The Hanker Station: Yolk, Lemon, Oysters, Soba

Welcome to the Hanker Station: A place where I can list all the shit I can’t stop eating, cooking or thinking about eating or cooking. Basically a note pad, or archive if you will, of shit I can’t get out my mind.

I invite you to suggest what I can do with said items, or let me know when I should move on to something else, (I remember once in college? I got a bit obsessed with peppercorns and my roommate, V let me know it was gross.) I get it, but I get a hankerin for something, and I need to let it run its course. (Don’t ask about when I went to North Carolina and I brought up Peel N Eat Shreemp all weekend long). (Have you noticed the tag cloud? P did, that’s when he suggested I rename this girl, Go Lemon Yourself.) Anyway: The Hanker Station. Welcome.

  1. Lemons, zest, juice, anything with citrus
  2. Eggs, mostly the yolk, quail eggs will be coming back
  3. Oysters, eating them in restaurants, learning to open fresh ones, figuring out what to do with the smoke canned variety
  4. Recently was given a ricer, so, of course, anything I can mash or puree
  5. Soba noodles
  6. Mac and Cheese, obvi.