So, I had a left over mini-slab of pork-belly hidden in the freezer, and figured I'd give it a shot...



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Because this is comfort food, and well...I suck at baking/pastry...and I have an AWESOME Asian market...I bought the buns 10 for 2$...much better than me buying the ingredients that I didn't have only to screw it up. Read the number 3 instruction...




I had brined the pork belly the night before. Now...there is a reason I had a piece of pork belly in the freezer...because it was a shitty cut, and well, I figured I'd use it SOME day...I wish I had a better cut, but for experimentation, this was it.




2.5 hours with foil on, 20 minutes at 450 with it off...


then rest for 20-30 minutes, then chill, then slice...and if you have a good cut, NOT like mine, it will slice up nice.



Very simple, just hoison, cucumber, scallions, pork belly.






all I can say is...wow.


I'd almost match it up against a burger, and coming from me, that says a lot.

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Tried my hand at faux-smoking some pork belly I had in the freezer....came out awesome. Basically rubbed the pork belly with brown sugar, fivespice, salt and pepper, got my contraption smoking, put it on the grill (the whole contraption).

Made some simple risotto with some leftover carrots (and of course homemade chicken stock)The pork belly was so tender, rather than slice it up, I just pulled it apart (it basically fell apart) and threw it in the risotto.

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