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Confit of Belly Pork

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After reading Stacie Stewart’s, the beehive gal off Masterchef 2009, blog I discovered her recipe for Belly Pork Confit.

I’ve never done a confit, so thought I would try this. It was VERY VERY NICE! I made a slight tweak to the recipe from the link below, in that I added 4 garlic cloves, crushed, to the oil – that was it. Next time I will also get the skin took off at the butchers, as I tried (in vain) to get it to goto good crackling.

The depth of taste was incredible though, and the meat just melted. After allowing it to cool I removed the bones, but there were a few bits of cartilage left, but nothing major. I also divided the slab into 4 pieces.

Try it out, I served mine with champ, peas and carrots :) http://staciestewart.weebly.com/2/post/2010/03/the-softest-confit-of-belly-pork.html (stupidly I forgot to take a pic)

Italian pork patties with potato wedges

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As part of my aforementioned “using the BBC Good Food” site to help me sort out new dinners in the week, I chose this recipe and really, really liked it. The only thing different I did was to add more herbs (in ours I put some sage, thyme along with the parsley). I also fried them on each side for about 4-5 mins until deep golden brown, then popped them into the oven @ 180 for a further 10 mins (just to make sure as they were quite thick, about 1″)

These are VERY filling, so 2 each is plenty (yeah I realise the recipe is for 4 people, but that would be ok for a lunch!)

Hope you enjoy them as much as I did, here’s the link to the full recipe