Duck terrine with almond orange and cranberry

This was actually a big mistake that turned out to be my new project. I made a basic country pate with duck and I inlayed some foie gras scrap an the center. When I cut into it most of the foie melted into the terrine so I couldn't serve it. So to fix it I hollowed it out and set a cranberry gelee. now I have some ideas to make it a perfect circle of gelee in the center. so this one will definatly be revisited.

Q Room dinner

Andy carson invited me to help out at this pig dinner that quinones. I was surrounded by great talent and just good people. The food was amazing it was alot of fun going back to see everyone and get to help out. Ham and cheese ( lonzino and pancetta with sweetgrass dairy green hill and red wine apple puree)
This is wood grilled riverveiw farms pork loin and ginger maple thyme sausage and pork belly confit. I wish I took more pics cause there was alot more food. Sean brock, Tyler brown, and dan latham were the guest chefs.
Hamachi, lardo, meyer lemon marmalade and pickled ramps. it was garnished with popcorn sized pork rinds.

super bacon

So I have been doing more experiments with activa or "meat glue". I love this stuff you can use it in so many applications. we got another pig in this past week bout 240 lbs. I needed to start another batch of bacon so I glued the two bellies together to make one big slab of bacon. its cured for 10 days and then smoked and dried for about 3 weeks. we'll post more pictures when its drying.

this is a mortadella from blackberry farms. its really good.
before the ham is cured we remove the fimir bone without cutting into the meat. not a easy task but it prevents the ham from rotting from the inside and the cure is absorbed more.

I also started a speck ham this week. This is a italian ham that is cured with juniper and loads of black pepper its then smoked and dried for 7-8 months.
so our meat case has been running around 40-50 percent humidity. all our salami was drying way too fast sometimes causing case hardening. I recently had a humidifier installed at the top of the case. now we have a consistant 70 percent humidity. which helps with proper drying but also the beautiful mold!