Wanna see something really, really perty?

[mtnester]

http://blog.ruhlman.com/ruhlmancom/2008/04/elements-cure.html

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Sigh...it is a thing of beauty, and I am now starving for it.



Managlista hog belly.

[kestrel91316]

1. I'm sorry. All that fat and other stuff - gristle - WHATEVER.....

makes me want to :puke: .

I suppose if you pan-fried heck out of it to render all the fat out and make the rest CRISP, I could go for it.........

[mtnester]

3. LOL...it is funny to see two totally different posts

one repulsed, and another praising, cured fats

I love perspective...it is a funny and wonderful thing!

[hippywife]

5. I'm totally with you!

Doesn't do a thing for me but different strokes and all. :hi:

[sazemisery]

2. Ruhlman Rules!

FAT! YUM!

[mtnester]

4. I like him alot

he and Bourdain are peas in a pod, and both are pork junkies

[eleny]

6. I would like to try some Lardo Di Colonnata

Bourdain had some in Italy and it intrigues me.

I'm reminded of some sort of bacon my folks served at parties back in the 1960s that was covered in paprika. Sliced thin and served on thin slices of a heavy, no nonsense rye bread. It was delicious.

That Managlista hog belly looks salty and tempting.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Isn't that called "Zolanna" or Solonna" or something like that?

From Poland or Hungary or (former) Czechoslovakia?

A childhood friend was Polish. I remember his mother serving something like that .... on rye bread. But what they did was dip the rye bread into the pan grease. The meat itself they cooked to really crispy, like crisp bacon.

[eleny]

8. Ours was served like lardo - not cooked crispy and no dipping

Szalonna looks good. Here's some. http://www.kaczurmeats.com/categories.aspx?cid=3

Edit: I think the folks and their friends called it Speck.

[Stinky The Clown]

9. Omygod! "Paprika Szalonna" That's it!

I was spelling it from memory, phonetically. Its pronounced kinda like an ess and kinda like a zee all at the same time.

Yeah, it pretty much looked like bacon with paprika on the outside.

(I remember it. I never really liked it. :) )