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Gourmet Bacon & Shrimp Over Southern Grits!

Serves 4
Ingredients:

3 cups of Chicken Stock
1 cup of Cream
1 cup of Corm Meal

(Toppings)

12 slices of Gourmet Bacon: Well diced after being cooked until crispy)
1 red pepper: Seeded and diced
1 medium Onion: Diced
20 large, raw, peeled and de-veined Shrimp
1 dollop of Butter for sautéing shrimp
¼ cup chopped fresh Parsley

Instructions:

Take the cup of cream and the 3 cups of chicken stock and pour it into a deep stainless steel pot.

Bring the pot to a simmer.

Be sure to adjust the heat, so that it stays at a gentle simmer.

Slowly add 1 the cup of cornmeal, carefully whisking as you go.

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The perfect treats for pork lovers everywhere with a Mediterranean twist. This recipe is taken from Gaea’s cookbook 5 Greek Chefs and Their Favorite Meze. The cookbook focuses on healthy living recipes using their environmentally friendly Greek olive oils, and sauces that add a flavor that transports you straight to the shores of Greece.

One recipe that is too good to pass up is Chef Christofors Peskias’ Salami chip on wild mushrooms recipe. This dish has an assortment of great flavors; the Salami is baked until crispy than placed above the garlic sautéed mushrooms. To accentuate the flavor 4 pieces of bone marrow are placed around the mushrooms and a red wine sauce that includes ground cumin and coriander that is drizzled above to add the finishing touches to the dish. This is a great recipe that would compliment a good wine or the main course of pork.
Cooking directions:
Prep time: 30 min. Cook time: 4 hours 6 servings
1 ½ lbs small chanterelle mushrooms (also called giroles) cleaned & dried
10 ounces raw bone marrow divided into pieces of 1.75 grams each
2 cups chicken broth
2 garlic cloves finely chopped
2 Tbsp. Gaea DOP Kalamata extra virgin olive oil
1.4 ounces butter
½ bunch fresh oregano, leaves only
7 ounces salami cut on slicing machine
For the sauce
1 ¼ cups sweet Agiorgitiko wine or other sweet red wine
2 ½ cups red wine
2 ½ cups dark chicken broth
1 tsp. ground cumin
1 tsp. ground coriander
Small amount of chopped chives
Coarse sea salt
Salt, freshly ground pepper

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Summer is finally really beginning to kick in and the warmer weather means two very significant things!

(1) Our wardrobes automatically becomes much more casual, laid back, fun, often funny and definitely more comfortable and relaxed.

(2) People are feeling the sunshine brighter, stronger and longer and that means higher temperatures. This naturally leads to the desire to show off a little more skin in order to effectively “cool ourselves down” while potentially “heating things up!”

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Have you ever wanted bacon on a Monday before work to start the week off right? Usually there isn’t enough time, I mean who has the time to bake or fry up a pound of bacon on a Monday morning while getting the kids ready for school, making sack lunches and getting all your work related stuff shoved into your laptop bag, right?

Well a new company called WowBacon just invented a Microwave Cooker to cook your favorite gourmet bacon in a hurry. Basically you hang or rack the bacon in what looks like a water pitcher for about 30 seconds per strip of bacon, a few minutes later you have a pound of bacon for breakfast. The best part is the grease drops to the bottom of the pitcher, dump that and toss the Microwave Cooker into the dishwasher and your off to work after having a delectably delicious bacony good breakfast. Sounds good, right?

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Boss Hog’s “BBQ Pork Cracklin’s”, it simply HAD to be! We’re talking one of the most delicious snack treats on earth. These, my good friends are no mere “mass produced pork rinds,” this is a sweet and salty, savory sample of Southern Style Satisfaction!

While driving along, on a wonderful trip down below the “Mason Dixon Line,” I stopped at a local, road-side food stand for something to go along with my snack of Bacon Freak Bacon Jerky!

The enthusiastically friendly lady working the stand recognized the package of my Bacon Jerky and told me that the same company makes her favorite bacon and that I actually look a lot like the guy on the package.

As you can imagine, that led to a pretty interesting conversation, when out of nowhere she said, “Hey Rocco, I gotta show you something!” Out from under the counter came a Tupperware bowl and when opened the lid, it was like the gates of Heaven had just swung open.

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