treducks

Cured Pork Shoulder

treducks — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:12:10 +0000

Whelp, this is the first update to my blog in ages. Things have been a bit busy lately, but Kate and I have moved into a new loft which has a magnificent kitchen which I’ve been spending a lot of time in. May latest project? Cured pork shoulder. I can’t say that I came up with this recipe as I stole it from Ryan Farr’s website, 4505 meats. Go read his site. It has lots of awesome stuff.

Anyhoo, here’s the meat:

Kosher salt, brown sugar, red peppercorns, black peppercorns and curry powder.

Pork shoulder cut in half and then rubbed in the cure. It was then put in zip lock bags and left in my fridge for two weeks.

After two weeks, the shoulder is removed from the bag.

The meat is washed off ready to be stuffed into the casing.

Salted beef bung being soaked.

Shoulder after it has been stuffed into the bung and tied.

Cured shoulder hanging in my office fridge for the next 5 – 7 weeks. More pics will be posted when it’s time to eat.

Rescue

treducks — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:36:51 +0000

Found this on Vimeo and I liked it so much, I setup my laptop and SLR so I could do some time lapse of my own (sans tilt-shift).

Check out the rest of the artist’s videos here.

Kilowatt

treducks — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:38:13 +0000

Taken during a full day of drinking this past Sunday. First we started at Zeitgeist and then we ended up here, at the Kilowatt. 8 second exposure with my Trusty GR Digital.

Two idiots walk into a bar…

treducks — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:41:55 +0000

They order a coffee, a craft cocktail, boar jerky, roasted peppers, and then notice the 100 whiskeys and the hot bartender. Alembic is one of my favorite bars right now.

Photos courtesy of Dylan.

Cafe Claude

treducks — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:06:37 +0000

Meaty

treducks — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:23:12 +0000

I recently injured my shoulder throwing around my friend’s baby and after my doctor checked it out, she decided I needed an MRI. Needless to say, it was one of the most unpleasant experiences I’ve been through in quite some time. They cram you in this tiny tube and you have to hold still for 20 minutes while the machine makes noises akin to clanging techno. It really fucking sucks. Anyhoo…I got a disc of all the scans and I made a movie of one of them. It’s a top down scan of my right shoulder and you can see the cross sections of the bone and my massive biceps. Enjoy.

OK. So it wasn’t real exciting.

McGangBang

treducks — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:18:39 +0000

Came across this bad boy during my morning internet troll and I have to admit, my arms started to hurt while I was reading. Doesn’t mean I won’t try it though.

McGangBang

Read about it at EatMeDaily.com

Sushi Time

treducks — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:09:06 +0000

Dunno why, but I find this strangely mesmerizing.

Shoesies

treducks — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:44:34 +0000

Bonsoir Monsieur Cat Burglar

treducks — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:43:14 +0000