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Homemade smoke salmon

I’m always scared when I get invited to dinner parties, I’m afraid to be offered smoke salmon. What? Why? What is wrong with you?! Some of you are thinking. The reason for this fear is that most people buy very bad smoke salmon of industry produced quality. I just hate those, they mostly tasteless with [...]

Duck confit sheperd’s pie

My sister, who’s a great cook decided to join me on this blog and to contribute recipes from time to time. She’s starting today with her signature dish, a Shepherd’s pie filled with Duck confit. I actually call it shepherd’s pie, but it’s more of an upgrade of a french dish called “hachis Parmentier” (Antoine [...]

Sous vide pork rinds becomes Chicharrones

I didn’t plan on doing sous vide Chicharonnes and honestly I don’t think that being cooked sous vide made any difference. What happened is that I cooked a pork belly sous vide for 24 hours from which I didn’t remove the rind. When I took it off the bath I remembered Chicharrones and thought that [...]