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I’m HERE for the meat candy

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Oh Lordy, yes!

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Wow! This looks delicious! I love the video of you and Sam! Happy Thanksgiving!

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It was a belly buster for sure! Miss you!

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It looks just so enticing. One big question: What were the two stuffings?

And a word of caution or maybe advice: Do you think perhaps you were trying to slice that gorgeous thing while it was still too warm? Might it have sliced more easily, and thinner slices, if you'd waited a bit longer to let it all settle? Or maybe you did that and it still fell apart. Nonetheless, it does look enticing and I bet it was an enormous hit!

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Mom's sage and chorizo stuffings. We didn't mix them and because we cut only half we just tasted the sage. It rested for an hour but I think the big problem was we scored it with too much space in between. The fat was like hard candy so you couldn't get a clean cut. Next time, smaller spaced scoring that will give a path to slice. Or something like that?

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One urgent question: how do you handle leftovers? I don't think I've ever heard of porkbelly soup--or maybe that's just my ignorance talking. 🤨

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Me neither! And leftovers is a conundrum we've been batting around because there's a lot! Tacos. Meat pies. Lardons--we each have at least a year supply of those. Stuffing will disappear on its own as always in like two days, although the chorizo could be a good pasta sauce base.

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I found one! Take a look here https://lepetiteats.com/quickeasy-pork-belly-udon/ Bet Sam's pork belly is better than Trader Joe's! :)

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Amazing! I just sent it to Sam. Knowing him you probably sent him on a whole new highway!

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Love the little video with your son! I am quite impressed with the whole thing.

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He's a trip, alright! We get the benefits of him going to culinary school on the GI bill. He quit because it was zapping his love of cooking.

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Well it looked amazing and I bet tasted delicious. Loved the crackling crunchiness, and the stuffings.

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