Friday, February 21, 2014

Challenge Accepted

A while back my team was discussing different breakfasts we had enjoyed (any military unit will have at least one discussion a day regarding food), and we began tossing around concepts for food that we might like.  Of course, bacon featured heavily.  So did coffee.  And chocolate.

Chocolate coffee bacon?

Challenge accepted.

I picked up a pork belly, and today mixed up a rub with all the requisite ingredients.  Salt, pepper, sugar, dark roast coffee, cocoa powder, and some spices.  I'm going to let it cure for at least a week, probably two, and then cold smoke it nice and slow with some plum wood that a friend gave me.  I'll cook some up before I go into work, pass it out, and tell them all to bow to the king, baby!

3 comments:

  1. Military breakfast?

    SOS!!!!

    MC

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  2. But you see, it's the eating of that SOS that makes you dream about and talk about all kinds of different foods.

    I mean, you have to do SOMETHING in order to make the SOS taste good.

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  3. I discovered the joy of chocolate with beef when i found a chili recipe that used chocolate. yum. Yours sounds even better.

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