This is the greatest and best food website in the world

[Ecrofirt]

http://curedmeats.blogspot.com/

Sound disgusting? WTF, get out.

A whole bunch of the best meats are cured. Fuck, even bacon is cured. Bacon.

Anyway, the point is this:
I've been making the coppa stuff that this guy makes for awhile now. My family is Italian and they've been doing it forever. It's delicious stuff. I've got 6 of them hanging in the cellar right now, in fact. They're just waiting to be eaten. We used to make prosciutto as well, but we stopped that after my grandfather died.

I also make fresh sausage (LOLZZZ) and dried sausage. Both are fantastic. Damn near everyone that's eaten it has said I've made the best sausage they've eaten in a LONG time (again with the innuendo LOLZ :/).

I'm tired and just wanted to post this. Perhaps someone else will appreciate the content on that site. It's fascinating to me.

[Cormacaroni]

oh man. 

I'm talking a friend into trying this out. He's into smoking bacon and what-not. We hit upon the idea of curing meat in his wine cooler, which offers delicious synergies: we'd have to create space in the wine cooler first.

Have you ever made pancetta? I saw it being done on tv once and it looked easy enough. It can be done in a much shorter time than all this cured stuff, right?

[tiesto]

prosciutto + melon is like the greatest combination of food ever... I'm a big cured meat fan (ditto, I'm Italian as well) so this was cool to look at, thanks.