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gasket said:
Please explain, do you kill a pig and rub in in a salt pit?
Seriously, home-cured, the process?
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Really easy. Buy some pork belly. Then I cover it above and below in a 60/40 mixture of salt and demerara sugar. Leave it in the fridge for three days, pouring off the liquid as it emerges - and I have bacon.bacon.gif
 
I assume the motivation better flavour?
A friends father gets the butcher to hang his mutton for weeks before he takes delivery.
I eat very little red meat but do enjoy a little bacon occasionally.
 
Better flavour, and no carcinogenic nitrites (preservatives). And well under half the price. My local butcher hangs all his meat, which comes from his own farm. I sometimes buy beef ribs, and I can choose how long they have been aged. Living in London gives you food choices that people in more rural areas don't have - they pretty much depend on supermarkets.
 
I guess London has a lot to offer.
Discerning people usually find good outlets regardless of location, we sometimes travel further to acquire :-(
Last week I made a new friend on my dog walking route who produces and supplies honey from his backyard. At his request I picked one of his figs and have never tasted a fig like it :-)
 
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DonP said:
I first had a cup of coffee here in 1967, and I still drop in on weekends.

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Where is that? DonP? London? Also, I know you have been all manner of places in the world, but am I correct in my memory that you didn't grow up and live in London your whole life? I am trying to recollect what you told me regarding your boating background and linking it to how you got from there to here in your present.
 
That's a couple of hundred yards from my house in London - Hampstead. I spent my early years split equally between Kent - between London and the channel coast - and the Faroe Islands, my mother's home up not far from Iceland. Also plenty of time with relatives in western Norway. Those last two are where I got my love of boats. In the Faroes back in the fifties and sixties, if you couldn't sail, you didn't go anywhere.
 
Thanks Don. I remember you telling me it was the Faroe Islands, but being unfamiliar with locations of various towns over there puts me at a disadvantage trying to file away the details in my memories. Hampstead is easy to remember as it is also the name of the neighboring town to where my house is.
As for boating. I find myself comfortable on them despite not extensive experiences with the sailing kind. Oh I managed to garner a few rides as a small kid with my childhood buddy and his dad in a small 1 sail type aluminum boat back in the 70's before they moved to Brisbane. But, I think that is actually the last sailboat I was ever on. Now motorized fishing boats and one cruise ship fill out the balance of my boating endeavors.
 
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I haven't seen a phone box like that in years. People from Hampstead don't carry mobile phones ;-)

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gasket said:
I haven't seen a phone box like that in years. People from Hampstead don't carry mobile phones ;-)

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There's a notice pinned to a lamp post near me concerning a planning application for a new phone box. Apparently people still want them. Hampstead folk are more than a touch eccentric.

It goes nicely with the bench though. But the solar powered parking meter is a bit wrong.
 
Bacon, one of the most marvellous Works of mankind.

We have a meat house here that makes homemade nitrite-free, lightly salted bacon with brown sugar and top quality pork belly. I Always buy it and lick my fingers afterwards.

Here's a pic I took:

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